Quotes about Cognition
Mentat, solve thyself, he thought.
— Frank Herbert
The true art of memory, is the art of attention
— Samuel Johnson
If you want to feel good, be rational.
— Ayn Rand
Opinion involves belief (for without belief in what we opine we cannot have an opinion), and in the brutes though we often find imagination we never find belief.
— Aristotle
If there is anything in the world that can really be called a man's property, it is surely that which is the result of his mental activity.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Sensation tell us a thing is. Thinking tell us what it is this thing is. Feeling tells us what this thing is to us.
— Carl Jung
What does reason know? Reason only knows what it has succeeded in learning.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
Life consists of what man is thinking about all day.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
People more often need to be reminded than informed.
— Samuel Johnson
they had a force of negation which eliminated everything beyond their own range of perception.
— Edith Wharton
Much of what we call emotion is nothing more or less than a certain kind - a biased, prejudiced, or strongly evaluative kind - of thought.
— Albert Ellis
If human emotions largely result from thinking, then one may appreciably control one's feelings by controlling one's thoughts - or by changing the internalized sentences, or self-talk, with which one largely created the feeling in the first place.
— Albert Ellis