Quotes about Cognition

If there is anything in the world that can really be called a man's property, it is surely that which is the result of his mental activity.

Sensation tell us a thing is. Thinking tell us what it is this thing is. Feeling tells us what this thing is to us.

What does reason know? Reason only knows what it has succeeded in learning.

Life consists of what man is thinking about all day.

People more often need to be reminded than informed.

they had a force of negation which eliminated everything beyond their own range of perception.

Much of what we call emotion is nothing more or less than a certain kind - a biased, prejudiced, or strongly evaluative kind - of thought.

If human emotions largely result from thinking, then one may appreciably control one's feelings by controlling one's thoughts - or by changing the internalized sentences, or self-talk, with which one largely created the feeling in the first place.

Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad.

How do you know, right now, that you are aware of being aware, or conscious?

One of the things I've come to appreciate about the brain is the importance of location. It's not just a set of interchangeable parts that you can swap in and out.