Quotes about Cognition
It is decreed by a merciful Nature that the human brain cannot think of two things simultaneously . . .
- Arthur Conan Doyle
It is true that 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
The brain has this amazing level of almost fractal complexity to it. When you start looking at any part of it in detail, you realize that it's much more complex than you thought.
- Paul Allen
His head was an hour-glass; it could stow an idea, but it had to do it a grain at a time, not the whole idea at once.
- Mark Twain
When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not.
- Mark Twain
Nothing pains some people more than having to think
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
We sometimes forget even what we have done, so how much more what we have thought.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
The younger we are, the more each individual object represents for us the whole class to which it belongs.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
We should rather consider the events, as they happen, with the same eye as we consider the printed word which we read, knowing full well that it was there before we read it.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Existence is Identity, Consciousness is Identification.
- Ayn Rand
Ideas have far-reaching consequences, and one must be ever so careful about what one allows to lodge in one's brain.
- Eric Metaxas
One would not drink of the cup of forgetfulness if one could.
- LM Montgomery