Cognition Quotes

"Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think." "Our world is fast changing, but our basic ability to reason has remained largely unchanged for millennia." "Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument" "Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding?" "Liberating education consists in acts of cognition not transferals of information" "I believe that the brain has evolved, like the rest of the body. And you can't understand the brain as an abstract mechanism that operates on its own. You really have to understand the body and the environment that this brain is operating in" "People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for." "An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think." "The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant" "The thing about smart people is that they seem like crazy people to dumb people." "Where does a thought go when it's forgotten?" "Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting." "Instinct is something which transcends knowledge." "Humans think in stories rather than in facts, numbers, or equations" "There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see." "Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection." "It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently." "A lot of people can't remember things because they weren't actually there to begin with. It's like housewives who say they can't remember their first orgasm. Of course they can't - they weren't there at the time." "The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around."