Quotes about Cognition

You know something when you are able to deal with it as it is on an appropriate basis of thought and experience.

Memory believes before knowing remembers. [Light in August]

Memory believes before knowing remembers.

Everyone knows what attention is. It is taking possession of the mind, in clear and vivid form, of one out of what seems several simultaneously possible objects or trains of thought. Focalization, concentration of consciousness are of its essence. It implies a withdrawal from some things in order to deal effectively with others.

Psychology is the science of mental life

The brain is the most complicated organ in the universe. We have learned a lot about other human organs. We know how the heart pumps and how the kidney does what it does. To a certain degree, we have read the letters of the human genome. But the brain has 100 billion neurons. Each one of those has about 10,000 connections.

Reason is the natural order of truth but imagination is the organ of meaning.

I knew I was drunk. I felt sophisticated and couldn't pronounce it.

To improve your memory, lend people money.

every sense impression that you receive through any of the five senses, influences your thoughts.

It is a well known fact that one comes, finally, to believe whatever one repeats to one's self, whether the statement be true or false. If a man repeats a lie over and over, he will eventually accept the lie as truth. Moreover, he will believe it to be the truth.

Not know it was hard;knowing it was harder