Quotes about Cognition
It is a well known fact that one comes, finally, to believe whatever one repeats to one's self, whether the statement be true or false. If a man repeats a lie over and over, he will eventually accept the lie as truth. Moreover, he will believe it to be the truth.
- Napoleon Hill
Not know it was hard;knowing it was harder
- Toni Morrison
An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
- Albert Camus
Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body.
- Joseph Addison
Reason is the mistress and queen of all things.
- Cicero
Thought is the labour of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
- Victor Hugo
Your mind makes out the orange by seeing it, hearing it, touching it, smelling it, tasting it and thinking about it but without this mind, you call it, the orange would not be seen or heard or smelled or tasted or even mentally noticed, it's actually, that orange, depending on your mind to exist! Don't you see that? By itself it's a no-thing, it's really mental, it's seen only of your mind. In other words it's empty and awake.
- Jack Kerouac
People have motives and thoughts of which they are unaware.
- Albert Ellis
My mind lets go a thousand things, Like dates of wars and deaths of kings
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
The mode of consciousness of nonhuman species is quite different from human consciousness.
- JM Coetzee
What is the most important and valuable work that you do, in any field or profession? It's thinking!
- Brian Tracy
Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
- Carl Sagan