Cognition Quotes
Cognition Quote of the day
A word devoid of thought is a dead thing, and a thought unembodied in words remains a shadow.
We speak not only to tell other people what we think, but to tell ourselves what we think. Speech is a part of thought.
The recent medical controversy over whether vaccinations cause autism reveals a habit of human cognition — thinking anecdotally comes naturally, whereas thinking scientifically does not.
The arts make vivid the fact that words do not, in their literal form or number, exhaust what we can know. The limits of our language do not define the limits of our cognition.
Relativism is neither a method of fighting, nor a method of creating, for both of these are uncompromising and at times even ruthless; rather, it is a method of cognition.
Cognition is not fighting, but once someone knows a lot, he will have much to fight for, so much that he will be called a relativist because of it.
But though cognition is not an element of mental action, nor even in any real sense of the word an aspect of it, the distinction of cognition and conation has if properly defined a definite value.
In any case, the fewer boundaries that exist hindering free movement between all forms of articulate human cognition, the better.
I think a lot of psychopaths are just geniuses who drove so fast that they lost control.
The rules of the universe that we think we know are buried deep in our processes of perception.
We do not have an ideal world, such as we would like, where morality is easy because cognition is easy. Where one can do right with no effort because he can detect the obvious.
Forgetting your mistakes is a terrible error if you are trying to improve your cognition.
In reality, infinity is merely the distance to the heart of a stranger. Eternity is the moment of cognition.
Cognition requires going beyond the information given, to make bets and therefore to risk errors.
Cognition modifies the knower so as to adapt him harmoniously to his acquired knowledge.
Once it is recognized that productive thinking in any area of cognition is perceptual thinking, the central function of art in general education will become evident.
When you go beyond awareness, there is a state of nonduality, in which there is no cognition, only pure being. In the state of nonduality, all separation ceases.
Our minds influence the key activity of the brain, which then influences everything; perception, cognition, thoughts and feelings, personal relationships; they’re all a projection of you.
Three key humanist virtues are courage, cognition, and caring - not dependence, ignorance, or insensitivity to the needs of others.
We have discovered that exercise is strongly correlated with increased brain mass, better cognition, mood regulation, and new cell growth.
When good people consider you the bad guy, you develop a heart to help the bad ones. You actually understand them.
We are not talking about a new cognition in relation to abstract art, rather a new area of cognition.
Any ape can reach for a banana, but only humans can reach for the stars.
If, in a democracy, the cognition of the majority is not much better than the cognition of the sheep, democracy will surely fail.
I read passionately with a need to know and see the act of reading as an act of cognition and not simply a means of passing time.
There is nothing more shocking than to see assertion and approval dashing ahead of cognition and perception.
You think you're losing your mind, but do keep in mind, as long as you may, that the ability to go on thinking such a thing means it's not all gone.
Whenever I think of something but can't think of what it was I was thinking of, I can't stop thinking until I think I'm thinking of it again. I think I think too much.
To swear day and night by media slander will make one a bigger victim than the slandered. It doesn't take much to begin to fear a mere illusion of human badness.
If you’re so forgetful that you’re incapable of remembering that a co-worker isn’t pregnant on three separate occasions in as many months, I worry about your memory and cognition skills.
if we can control the environment in which rapid cognition takes place, then we can control rapid cognition
You know, whether it be humans or animals. So even humans - before we can speak or we can understand a baby's cognition - they're already showing us signs that they want choice.
He was trapped in the electrochemical web of cognition, wherein curiosity leads into temptation, temptation leads into fear, and fear is considered an impulse to be mastered.
Travelling, whether in the mental or the physical world, is a joy, and it is good to know that, in the mental world at least, there are vast countries still very imperfectly explored
The hormonal interplay inside a woman’s head creates her reality. Her hormones tell her day to day what’s important. They mold her desires and values.
Reality is not a thought experiment.
I wanted that future officer to weigh decisions with a supple mind and to be comfortable with nuance and uncertainty.
Our life is just as long or short as our remembering: as rich as our imagining, as vibrant as our feeling, and as profound as our thinking.
Anger's like a battery that leaks acid right out of meAnd it starts from the heart 'til it reaches my outer me
It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.
The concern of your brain is not to see the actual nature of reality, but to represent the reality to you in such a way that suits your needs.