Quotes about Cognition

When we go online, we enter an environment that promotes cursory reading, hurried and distracted thinking, and superficial learning. Even as the Internet grants us easy access to vast amounts of information, it is turning us into shallower thinkers, literally changing the structure of our brain.8

You know something when you are able to deal with it as it is on an appropriate basis of thought and experience.

Memory believes before knowing remembers. [Light in August]

Memory believes before knowing remembers.

Everyone knows what attention is. It is taking possession of the mind, in clear and vivid form, of one out of what seems several simultaneously possible objects or trains of thought. Focalization, concentration of consciousness are of its essence. It implies a withdrawal from some things in order to deal effectively with others.

Psychology is the science of mental life

I'm so full of useless information; I'm the kind of person that collects useless information. I like to know everything!

The brain is the most complicated organ in the universe. We have learned a lot about other human organs. We know how the heart pumps and how the kidney does what it does. To a certain degree, we have read the letters of the human genome. But the brain has 100 billion neurons. Each one of those has about 10,000 connections.

Reason is the natural order of truth but imagination is the organ of meaning.

I knew I was drunk. I felt sophisticated and couldn't pronounce it.

To improve your memory, lend people money.

every sense impression that you receive through any of the five senses, influences your thoughts.