Quotes About Cognition

All human minds are not the same, that intelligence differs not only in degree, but to some extent also in kind.

Lo que había dado a Helmholtz la desagradable conciencia de ser él mismo y estar totalmente solo, era un exceso de inteligencia.

our perceptions of the external world are habitually clouded by the verbal notions in terms of which we do our thinking. We are for ever attempting to convert things into signs for the more intelligible abstractions of our own invention. But in doing so, we rob these things of a great deal of their native thinghood.

W]ords are not the same as things and [...] a knowledge of words about facts is in no sense equivalent to a direct and immediate apprehension of the facts themselves.

Según estas ideas, la función del cerebro, el sistema nervioso y los órganos sensoriales es principalmente eliminativa, no productiva.

It's an affair of the mind; experience and thought have to draw it out.

Men find a new universe of thought and feeling, clearer and more comprehensible than the universe of daily experience.

being of the knower, there is a corresponding

All phenomena of which we are aware take place in our own minds, and therefore the only thing we have to look at is the mind; which is a more constant quantity over all the species of humanity than is generally supposed.

There are so many things we take in subconsciously and are unaware we ever saw. There is plenty of lumber like that in our minds.

Ah!" said the therapist. "That's precisely what you're meant to do, you know. Thinking precedes verbalisation, and verbalisation precedes resolution. And much as I approve of that, what we're trying to do here is to find out what you think without thinking. In other words, we want to find out what's going on in your mind. Because that's what—

He was one of those people, she thought, who just seemed to know a great deal. And he spoke so wisely, as if had thought for hours about everything he said.

if you had no language, then what form did your thoughts take—if you thought at all? Of course you thought—she had never had any difficulty with accepting that—but how limited would your thoughts be in the absence of any words to express them?

Every memory is a re-creation, not a playback. When we remember, we focus on certain facts and emotions, and become active participants in re-creating memories.

apprendre n'est pas savoir; il y a les sachants et les savants: c'est la memoire qui fait les uns, c'est la philosophie qui fait les autres.

Ideology is a form of cognition. Ideology can of course refer to doctrine, as in the Communist Manifesto, or to practice, as in the division of labor between husbands and wives. Here, however,

If a man write little, he had need have a great memory."[12]

I catch the idea by two senses. But when I read aloud I hear what is read and I see it, and hence two senses get it and I remember it better, if I do not understand it better.

Vision involves more than just seeing or being shown.

Our brains construct a world that no one else can see, touch, or hear. Or, as Buddhist teachers sometimes say, "The truth is a pathless land.

Are you calling me a dummy?" "Not at all. I'm just saying that maybe some of us caught on a bit faster than others.

Following a trauma at any age, there's a reduction in the number of neural pathways between the limbic system (pertaining to feelings) and the cortex system (managing thought and cognition). So after being traumatized, you're less aware of your feelings.

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.

Eroticize intelligence.