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Quotes about Cognition

What the Bible says is what God has disclosed and we want to approach this sacred text with cognitive reverence.
— DA Carson
Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the Itteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat Itteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.
— Sean Covey
Reason functions by integrating perceptual data into concepts.
— Ayn Rand
From this simplest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from a single attribute of man—the function of his reasoning mind.
— Ayn Rand
Thinking is something one doesn't borrow or pawn.
— Ayn Rand
It is true 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
Reading to the mind is what exercise is to the body.
— Joseph Addison
We resemble computers intellectually and animals emotionally.
— Mother Angelica
Our ability to sense reality is limited.
— Billy Graham
The hand is defined as "the organ of apprehension." How perfectly the definition fits my case in both senses of the word "apprehend"! With my hand I seize and hold all that I find in the three worlds—physical, intellectual, and spiritual.
— Helen Keller
For, as I know that I am, so I know this also, that I know.
— St. Augustine
We both know that, my friend, but a man's perception soon becomes his reality.
— Tim LaHaye