Quotes About Cognition

It is better to entertain an idea than to take home to live with you for the rest of your life.

My life is slowed up by thought and the need to understand what I am living.

You live your life between your ears.

Just as eating against one's will is injurious to health, so studying without a liking for it spoils the memory, and it retains nothing it takes in.

My primary process of perceiving is muscular and visual.

Memory is the miser of the mind; forgetfulness the spendthrift.

Learning to read again was by far the hardest thing I had to do. I don't know if those cells in my brain had died or what, but I had no recollection that reading was something I had ever done before, and I thought the concept was ridiculous.

Although the statistics vary depending upon whom you ask, virtually everyone who is right handed (over 85% of the U.S. population) is left hemisphere dominant. At the same time, over 60% of left handed people are also classified as left hemisphere dominant. Let's take a closer look at the asymmetries of

Create cheat sheets to help new info stick in your brain better.

When you're deep in study mode, stop every thirty minutes to review what you've just learned. Repeat the information you just covered out loud to yourself. This helps cement it in your brain even more when you want to recall it.

Chunking strategies minimize mental chaos and increase recall.

The human mind is not a terribly logical or consistent place.

Listening to music is one of the few activities that engages the entire brain

I have great faith in the intelligence of the American viewer and reader to put two and two together and come up with four.

Most citizens today cannot imagine such a possibility because they are psychologically affected by a phenomenon known as normalcy bias, whereby people fail to recognize or underestimate the possibility of disaster. Most people tend to believe that whatever they experience on a day-to-day basis is 'normal' and that things will stay that way.

I don't trust my mind for everyday thinking, but I am convinced that it has one very great function, which is to eventually make me aware of astounding things.

The modern proverb "Use it or lose it" is very wise. If we don't exercise our muscles, they waste away. If we don't exercise our minds, they begin to close.

A voracious reader with a large memory for what she read

Rusty visualized his mind as being like a fishing net. The only thing he could remember were the little drops that clung to his mental netting.

I never learned maths, so I had to think

He's got a great but unorganized mind

Why do big men tend to have such little brains? Perhaps they get by on brawn too often, and their minds dry up like plums in the sun.

Intense psychological stress tends to shut down the part of the brain responsible for innovative, creative thought.

The weakness of humanity is never willingly perceived by young minds.