Cognition Quotes

"What we see depends mainly on what we look for" "People not only don't know what's happening to them, they don't even know that they don't know." "To express the same idea in still another way, I think that human knowledge is essentially active" "It is remarkable that the human mind can manage to be so wrong yet so confident" "Nothing is in the mind which was not first in the senses, except the mind itself." "The learned ignore the evidence of their senses to preserve the coherence of the ideas of their imagination" "It is not enough to possess a good mind; one must also apply it" "It's not a matter of what is true that counts but a matter of what is perceived to be true." "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night" "No two people's intelligences are the same" "But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought." "A person hears only what they understand " "We all have a contract with reality that’s bound by trust; the less realistic our ideals are, the more we tend to misinterpret our surroundings." "Mind is the last frontier." "Understanding itself is a dynamic and context-dependent process." "The brain is just a great big bag of tricks." "The human mind is something everyone should be able to understand." "Reason flows from the blending of rational thought and emotional experience" "The mind is the brain at work." "A man without words is a man without thought"