Cognition Quotes

"Where does a thought go when it's forgotten?" "The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around." "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." "It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently." "Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection." "There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see." "Humans think in stories rather than in facts, numbers, or equations" "Instinct is something which transcends knowledge." "Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting." "The thing about smart people is that they seem like crazy people to dumb people." "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" "An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think." "People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for." "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" "Liberating education consists in acts of cognition not transferals of information" "Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding?" "Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument" "Our world is fast changing, but our basic ability to reason has remained largely unchanged for millennia." "Feeling is what you get for thinking the way you do." "What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears"