Quotes about Cognition
We have learned to see the world in gasps.
— Margaret Atwood
What is a demanding pleasure that demands the use of ones mind! Not in the sense of problem solving, but in the sense of exercising discrimination, judgment, awareness.
— Ayn Rand
Distinctions drawn by the mind are not necessarily equivalent to distinctions in reality.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Two percent of the people think; three percent of the people think they think; and ninety-five percent of the people would rather die than think.
— George Bernard Shaw
Faith is unlearning this senseless worries and misguided beliefs that keep us captive. It is far more complex than simply modifying behavior. Faith is rewiring the human brain. We are literally upgrading our minds by downloading the mind of Christ.
— Mark Batterson
It was easier to know it than to explain why I knew it.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
That head of yours should be for use as well as ornament.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
It is decreed by a merciful Nature that the human brain cannot think of two things simultaneously . . .
— Arthur Conan Doyle
It is true that I do not speak as well as I can think. But that is true of most people, as nearly as I can tell.
— Barbara Kingsolver
His head was an hour-glass; it could stow an idea, but it had to do it a grain at a time, not the whole idea at once.
— Mark Twain
When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not.
— Mark Twain
Nothing pains some people more than having to think
— Martin Luther King, Jr.