Quotes about Cognition

We tend to focus on the object and call it reality. We don't notice how our mind intervenes in our perception.

Neurologists tell us a startling truth that has major implications for spiritual formation: Our choices and experience shape our brain, both literally and physiologically. What we choose cognitively helps make us into who we are.

What the Bible says is what God has disclosed and we want to approach this sacred text with cognitive reverence.

The notion that you have to hold something in your head seems to have been forgotten. It is an absurdity that children learn to investigate topics without having dates in their heads, or the facts.

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Reason functions by integrating perceptual data into concepts.

From this simplest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from a single attribute of man—the function of his reasoning mind.

Thinking is something one doesn't borrow or pawn.

It is true I do not speak as well as I can think. But that is true of most people, as nearly as I can tell. 

Reading to the mind is what exercise is to the body.

We resemble computers intellectually and animals emotionally.

I've always been attracted to negative influences - I thought that meant you were smart.