Quotes About Cognition

we are speaking about cognitive meanings, which cannot be transferred into students as blood is pumped into veins. Learning the meaning of a piece of knowledge requires dialog, exchange, sharing, and sometimes compromise.

Memory is a class of thoughts which takes as its object something already experienced.

while reciprocal altruism does require a higher level of cognitive sophistication and behavioral flexibility than kin selection altruism, insofar as the altruist must be able to recognize free riders and discontinue interactions with them, too much cognitive sophistication may in the end undermine the altruistic impulse.

Clevinger had a mind, and Lieutenant Scheisskoph had noticed that people with minds tended to get pretty smart at times.

They had not brains enough to be introverted and repressed.

The American philosopher, Ralph Waldo Emerson, said, "Man is what he thinks all day long.

My memory from today on is improving in every department. I shall always remember whatever I need to know at every moment of time and point of space. The impressions received will be clearer and more definite. I shall retain them automatically and with ease. Whatever I wish to recall will immediately present itself in the correct form in my mind. I am improving rapidly every day, and very soon my memory will be better than it has ever been before.

belief is a thought in your mind

Psychologists and psychiatrists point out that when thoughts are conveyed to your subconscious mind, impressions are made in the brain cells.

Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "Man is what he thinks all day long.

Sketchy: I'm no stranger to stoner logic.

Paradox: how do we know what we have failed to see because we have no language to express it, thus we cannot know that we have failed to see it.

that I—I have not 'heard' . . . What is it?

No se puede ejercer la memoria hasta que uno se ha retirado de la fuente del recuerdo.

For Iris has learned that to experience a thing is not to know it, or even to have the power to remember it coherently.

If Marianne had noticed.

My mind rattled on fast as a machine sometimes, ran its own way without my participation. So I'd know the answer to the algebra problem but not the steps to that answer. Or what a poem like Robert Frost's The Road Not Taken meant but not ho to explain it.

Alexander Pope said that amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.

There's a lot of stuff you know and you don't even know how you know it!

There are no accidents in memory, for memory has its own reasons and its own logic. What I remember is what happened to me as I best recall it.

Psychologists confirm that humans are incapable of giving their full attention to two tasks simultaneously.37 What people actually do is switch their attention from one task or platform to the next, and such task switching leads to a host of issues, including attention difficulties, poor decision making, and information overload.

When we walk, the two halves of our brains converse.

Since language is community, if the cognitive ecology of a language is altered, so is the community.

Man is a thinking center, and can originate thought. All the forms that man fashions with his hands must first exist in his thought; he cannot shape a thing until he has thought that thing.