Quotes about Cognition
It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English - up to fifty words used in correct context - no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese.
- Carl Sagan
All evils to which so many become addicted begin in the mind and in the way one thinks.
- Joseph Wirthlin
Why? Because the human brain, no matter what region of the world it comes from, is drawn toward clarity and away from confusion.
- Donald Miller
When we have the same thought again, the line of the original thought is deepened, causing what's called a memory trace. With each repetition the trace goes deeper and deeper, forming and embedding a pattern of thought. When an emotion is tied to this thought pattern, the memory trace grows exponentially stronger.
- Lysa TerKeurst
After all, how a woman thinks is often how she lives.
- Lysa TerKeurst
Taking thoughts captive and being transformed by thinking new ways isn't some New Age form of mind control. It's biblical and it's fitting with how God wired our brains.
- Lysa TerKeurst
A form of self-delusion.
- Elbert Hubbard
You can only find truth with logic if you have already found it without it.
- GK Chesterton
Our brains are organized by narrative and image.
- Gloria Steinem
Women always worry about things that men forget; men always worry about things women remember.
- Albert Einstein
A mystic is a man who treats his feelings as tools of cognition.
- Ayn Rand
The wise man knows of all things, as far as possible, although he has no knowledge of each of them in detail
- Aristotle