Quotes about Cognition

The mind is the attribute of man. When man is born, he comes into existence with only one weapon with him--The reasoning mind.

One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.

The only thing about a man that is a man is his mind.

A man with so large a brain must have something in it.

nothing can be known, save what is true;

Knowledge is according to the mode of the one who knows; for the thing known is in the knower according to the mode of the knower.

For this reason truth is defined by the conformity of intellect and thing; and hence to know this conformity is to know truth.

To begin with, I ran my eye up and down the page. I am going to get the hang of her sentences first, I said, before I load my memory with blue eyes and brown and the relationship that there may be between Chloe and Roger. There will be time for that when I have decided whether she has a pen in her hand or a pickaxe.

BRAIN: A commodity as scarce as radium and more precious, used to fertilize ideas.

The chief problem with television is that, for those who watch it consistently, it undermines and eventually destroys the ability to think. This is because it communicates primarily images, not by words, and words are necessary if we are to perceive logical connections and make judgments as to what is right and wrong.

Since the most creative element in our person, the superior factor in our entire entity, is the mind

Our brain is organized to act and feel before we think. This is also how our brain develops—sequentially, from the bottom up. The developing infant acts and feels, and these actions and feelings help organize how they will begin to think.