Cognition is not fighting, but once someone knows a lot, he will have much to fight for, so much that he will be called a relativist because of it. — Karel Capek
But though cognition is not an element of mental action, nor even in any real sense of the word an aspect of it, the distinction of cognition and conation has if properly defined a definite value. — Samuel Alexander
Mindfulness has never met a cognition it didn't like. — Daniel J. Siegel
To think is to practice brain chemistry. — Deepak Chopra
Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think. — Ambrose Bierce
I believe the ability to think is blessed. If you can think about a situation, you can deal with it. The big struggle is to keep your head clear enough to think. — Richard Pryor
The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge. — Rene Descartes
People not only gain understanding through reflection, they evaluate and alter their own thinking. — Albert Bandura
The brain is a complex biological organ of great computational capability that constructs our sensory experiences, regulates our thoughts and emotions, and control our actions. — Eric Kandel
All perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention. — Rudolf Arnheim
Intuition (is) perception via the unconscious — Carl Jung
The essential functions of the mind consist in understanding and in inventing, in other words, in building up structures by structuring reality. — Jean Piaget
Intelligence is something we are born with. Thinking is a skill that must be learned. — Edward De Bono
The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained. — David Bohm
Short Cognition Quotes
Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction. — E. O. Wilson
Liberating education consists in acts of cognition, not transferrals of information — Paulo Freire
Don't ask why the patient is the way he is, ask for what he would change. — Milton H. Erickson
Mental models are really just compact ways for you to recall your own knowledge. — Naval Ravikant
If you know yourself, then you'll not be harmed by what is said about you. — Sufyan al-Thawri
To them, Biden's cognitive impairment isn't a bug. It's a feature. — Vivek Ramaswamy
Education builds software for your brain. — Edward O. Thorp
Wisdom is tolerance of cognitive dissonance. — Robert Thurman
We must take care of our minds because we cannot benefit from beauty when our brains are missing. — Euripides
Cognition Image Quotes
Learning And Cognition Quotes
Cognitive and character skills work together as dynamic complements; they are inseparable. Skills beget skills. More motivated children learn more. Those who are more informed usually make wiser decisions. — James Heckman
Most learning is not the result of instruction. It is rather the result of unhampered participation in a meaningful setting. Most people learn best by being "with it," yet school makes them identify their personal, cognitive growth with elaborate planning and manipulation. — Ivan Illich
The systems they (the Arts) nourish, which include our integrated sensory, attentional, cognitive, emotional, and motor capacities, are, in fact, the driving forces behind all other learning. — Eric Jensen
The physical symptoms of fight or flight are what the human body has learned over thousands of years to operate efficiently and at the highest level...anxiety is a cognitive interpretation of that physical response. — John Eliot
Empty heads, cognitive science has taught us, learn nothing. The powerful cultural and personal flexibility of our species is owed at least in part to our starting off so well-informed; we are good learners because we know what to pay attention to and what questions are the right ones to ask. — Paul Bloom
Recent research shows that many children without enough to eat wind up with diminished capacity to understand and learn (“cognitive impairment” ). Children don't have to be starving for this to happen. Even mild undernourishment — the kind most common among poor people in America — can do it. — Carl Sagan
I believe the important thing is to continue to create new experiences. That's why so many retired people travel. New experiences raise our consciousness and stimulate cognition. Retirement offers the opportunity to learn new things, and that is what keeps you young, at heart at least. — David Elkind
Effective education may also require co-opting old faculties to deal with new demands. . . Because much of the content of education is not cognitively natural, the process of mastering it may not always be easy and pleasant, notwithstanding the mantra that learning is fun. — Steven Pinker
We really are creatures of a violent world, biologically speaking - watching violence and learning about it is one of our cognitive drives. — Steven Pinker
Social Cognition Quotes
Strategy-making is an immensely complex process involving the most sophisticated, subtle, and at times subconscious of human cognitive and social processes. — Henry Mintzberg
In social cognitive theory, perceived self-efficacy results from diverse sources of information conveyed vicariously and through social evaluation, as well as through direct experience — Albert Bandura
However, a good life consists of more than simply the totality of enjoyable experiences. It must also have a meaningful pattern, a trajectory of growth that results in the development of increasing emotional, cognitive, and social complexity. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Cognition is ... not an individual process of any theoretical "particular conciousness." Rather it is the result of a social activity, since the existing stock of knowledge exceeds the range available to any one individual. — Ludwik Fleck
After all, by providing early access to medicine, nutrition and stimulation, early childhood development creates lifelong improvements in health, cognitive development, school achievement, and social equality. — Shakira
Social cognitive theory rejects the dichotomous conception of self as agent and self as object. Acting on the environment and acting on oneself entail shifting the perspective of the same agent rather than reifying different selves regulating each other or transforming the self from agent to object — Albert Bandura
I always say, once I get in a room, I can sell myself just fine. I know that not everyone who has a disability has the social skills or cognitive skills that I do, and it may be harder for them to navigate through. — Zach Anner
When parents have college savings accounts for their kids, their kids show higher social and cognitive performance. — Dan Ariely
People who are cognitively busy are also more likely to make selfish choices, use sexist language, and make superficial judgments in social situations. — Daniel Kahneman
Although elephants are far more distantly related to us than the great apes, they seem to have evolved similar social and cognitive capacities. — Frans de Waal
Good Quotes
A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked. — Bernard Meltzer
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion. — Steven Weinberg
I've had good times and I've had bad times and I reminisce, maybe when I lay down, but throughout my day I keep myself engulfed in whatever moment I'm in because it could steer me into a depressed state. — Kevin Gates
No matter how successful you become you gotta keep grindin' and be a good person and then good things will come to you. — Meek Mill
Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses. — Ann Landers
You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life. — Winston Churchill
That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends. My teacher was Ferruccio Cusinati — Maria Callas
Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one. — Marcus Aurelius
Brain Cognition Quotes
All experience is a drug experience. Whether it's mediated by our own [endogenous] drugs, or whether it's mediated by substances that we ingest that are found in plants, cognition, consciousness, the working of the brain, it's all a chemically mediated process. Life itself is a drug experience. — Dennis McKenna
There is no scientific study more vital to man than the study of his own brain. Our entire view of the universe depends on it. — Francis Crick
There are three types of thought that our brains produce: insightful used for problem-solving, experiential focused on the task at hand, and narrative chatter. Those types are so distinctively different from each other that they occur in different parts of our brain. — Mo Gawdat
All our behaviours are a result of neurophysiological activity in the brain. There is no reason to believe there is any magic going on. — Steven Pinker
Low omega-3 intake from seafood has been identified as one of the top 6 preventable causes of death & estimated to cause a similar number of deaths per year as eating transfats. New study found higher omega-3 index in midlife protects the brain from shrinkage/preserves cognition. — Rhonda Patrick
Emotion only lasts in our bodies for about 90 seconds. After that, the physical reaction dissipates, UNLESS our cognitive brain kicks in and starts connecting our anger with past events. — Jill Bolte Taylor
The brain is a monstrous, beautiful mess. Its billions of nerve cells - called neurons - lie in a tangled web that displays cognitive powers far exceeding any of the silicon machines we have built to mimic it. — William Allman
I think that cognitive scientists would support the view that our visual system does not directly represent what is out there in the world and that our brain constructs a lot of the imagery that we believe we are seeing. — Galen Rowell
There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul. — Arnold Bennett
The reason I'm not a neurobiologist but a cognitive psychologist is that I think looking at brain tissue is often the wrong level of analysis. You have to look at a higher level of organization. — Steven Pinker
Thinking Capacity Quotes
People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think. — Aldous Huxley
I do not allow myself to be overcome by hopelessness, no matter how tough the situation. I believe that if you just do your little bit without thinking of the bigness of what you stand against, if you turn to the enlargement of your own capacities, just that itself creates new potential. — Vandana Shiva
Encouragement is awesome. Think about it. It has the capacity to lift a man's or a woman's shoulders. To breathe fresh air into the fading embers of a smoldering dream. To actually change the course of another human being's day, week, or life. — Charles R. Swindoll
I don’t think the feeling of anxiety ever completely goes away; we’re even limited, apparently, in our capacity to embrace our limitations. — Oliver Burkeman
If anyone spends almost the whole day in reading...he gradually loses the capacity for thinking...This is the case with many learned persons; they have read themselves stupid — Arthur Schopenhauer
Learning organizations organizations where people continually expand their capacity to create the results they truly desire, where new and expansive patterns of thinking are nurtured, where collective aspiration is set free, and where people are continually learning how to learn together. — Peter Senge
I think schools generally do an effective and terribly damaging job of teaching children to be infantile, dependent, intellectually dishonest, passive and disrespectful to their own developmental capacities. — Seymour Papert
I talked to Snoop Doggy Dog today. Well I'm not sure if you could really call it talked because I could hardly understand what he was saying. But i think he was trying to communicate was that he wanted to work with me in some sort of capacity and something involving marijuana. — Marilyn Manson
... the greatest menace to our capacity for contemplation is the incessant fabrication of tawdry empty stimuli which kill the receptivity of the soul. — Josef Pieper
If a mentally superhuman race ever develops, its members will resemble Johnny von Neumann. If you enjoy thinking, your brain develops. And that is what von Neumann did. He enjoyed the functioning of his brain. — Annie Jacobsen
What Am I Thinking Quotes
My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am, and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier. — Anthony Hopkins
For I am not so enamoured of my own opinions that I disregard what others may think of them. — Nicolaus Copernicus
Some mornings you wake up and think, gee I look handsome today. Other days I think, what am I doing in the movies? I wanna go back to Ireland and drive a forklift. — Liam Neeson
I am a Canadian, free to speak without fear, free to worship in my own way, free to stand for what I think right, free to oppose what I believe wrong, or free to choose those who shall govern my country. This heritage of freedom I pledge to uphold for myself and all mankind. — John Diefenbaker
I write to find out what I am thinking.
I write to find out who I am.
I write to understand things. — Julia Alvarez
I am a very positive thinker, and I think that is what helps me the most in difficult moments. — Roger Federer
Don't think your dreams don't come true, because they do. You'd better be careful what you wish for. And I truly and honestly - one day I am doing the 'Beaver' show and I said, 'This is the show I have always wanted to do.' — Barbara Billingsley
I think a good MP is someone who cares for their community and becomes their champion, which is why I will make my home in any seat I am lucky enough to be selected for. Looks play no part in the equation, what matters is your ideas and connecting them to the electorate. — Adam Rickitt
When I look at my old pictures, all I can see is what I used to be but am no longer. I think: What I can see is what I am not. — Aleksandar Hemon
I understand you, and I shall not attempt to make you change your mind. I am too old to want to improve the world. I have told you what I think, and that is all. I shall remain your friend even if you act contrary to my convictions, and I shall help you even if I disagree with you. — Milan Kundera
What Was I Thinking Quotes
I think it is just terrible and disgusting how everyone has treated Lance Armstrong, especially after what he achieved winning seven Tour de France races while on drugs......When I was on drugs I couldn't even find my bike. — Willie Nelson
I look back on my life with great joy. I think it was a very successful life. I always did what I wanted and never cared what anyone thought. Women's lib? I was a liberated woman long before there was a name for it. — Peggy Guggenheim
If there was one decision I would overrule, it would be 'Citizens United.' I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg
I had no idea what I was walking into, and the years and years of hard work it would take. I felt like an outsider and like it was never going to happen. But even if I would have known, I think I still would have done it. Dancers are perfectionists, and that's what keeps us going and growing. — Misty Copeland
I wasn't very good about juggling family and my career. I was interested in who was coming to the children's birthday party, what my son was writing. I was thinking about Legos. — Jill Clayburgh
I tend to think having that extreme of color, that kind of black, is amazingly beautiful...and powerful. What I was thinking to do with my image was to reclaim the image of blackness as an emblem of power. — Kerry James Marshall
I don't think there are too many rock bands in history that can look at the beginning and middle and ending of themselves and see what I see when I think of Soundgarden. I think from the beginning through the middle and the end it was such a perfect ride and such a perfect legacy to leave. — Chris Cornell
I've always been an animal lover. I've grown up with dogs my whole life. I think that is what helped me get the role on 'Lassie', I was comfortable around the dog, where many of the kids were afraid or intimidated by Lassie. — Will Estes
Mortals. I envy you. You think you can change things. Stop the universe. Undo what was done long before you came along. You are such beautiful creatures. — Kami Garcia
I was 18 years old, and it was a dream come true for me to work out and eat great food for free. What else do you want in life? People think that is what it is like to be in a SEAL team, but it is less than a fraction of your career as a real SEAL. — Jocko Willink
Cognitive Quotes
Cognitive therapy seeks to alleviate psychological stresses by correcting faulty conceptions and self-signals. By correcting erroneous beliefs we can lower excessive reactions. — Aaron T. Beck
The most popular typefaces are the easiest to read; their popularity has made them disappear from conscious cognition. It becomes impossible to tell if they are easy to read because they are commonly used, or if they are commonly used because they are easy to read. — Zuzana Licko
Aromatherapy during sleep increases cognitive capacity by 226% in older adults, an effect thought to be mediated by improved integrity of the prefrontal cortex's uncinate fasciculus, a pathway directly linked to memory. — Rhonda Patrick
When dissonance is present, in addition to trying to reduce it, the person will actively avoid situations and information which would likely increase the dissonance. — Leon Festinger
Biden's cognitive impairment has outlived its usage for his puppet masters. Mark my words. they will use that to sideline him soon. — Vivek Ramaswamy
When it comes to exploring the mind in the framework of cognitive neuroscience, the maximal yield of data comes from integrating what a person experiences - the first person - with what the measurements show - the third person. — Daniel Goleman
Too much choice has many underappreciated downsides that affect our health and happiness. Every choice you make requires cognitive effort, takes time and can potentially add to your stress load. Eliminating unnecessary choice from your life can be transformative. — Rangan Chatterjee
As applied to substance abuse, the cognitive approach helps individuals
to come to grips with the problems leading to emotional distress
and to gain a broader perspective on their reliance on drugs for
pleasure and/or relief from discomfort. — Aaron T. Beck
Actually, I think my view is compatible with much of the work going on now in neuroscience and psychology, where people are studying the relationship of consciousness to neural and cognitive processes without really trying to reduce it to those processes. — David Chalmers
There are a variety of techniques to help people change the kind of thinking that leads them to become depressed. These techniques are called cognitive behavioral therapy. — Irving Kirsch
Cognitive Therapy Quotes
Things may happen around you, and things may happen to you, but the only things that matter are the things that happen in you. — Eric Butterworth
Because of my bipolar disorder, I tend to these mixed states, which are depressed but loud and agitated. So I can be terribly irritable. I go to cognitive behavioral therapy in order not to yell at my children. — Ayelet Waldman
The individual is taught that there is nothing that he as a total person is to feel ashamed of or self-hating for. — Albert Ellis
Whatever a person frequently thinks and reflects on, that will become the inclination of their mind. — Buddha
He who neglects what is done for what ought to be done, sooner effects his ruin than his preservation. — Niccolo Machiavelli
If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free. — Sophocles
The origin of sorrow is this: to wish for something that does not come to pass. — Epictetus
Peace is the result of retraining your mind to process life as it is, rather than as you think it should be. — Wayne Dyer
I wondered if there was a way to teach people how to use their imaginations in prayer and worship. So I began reading books on cognitive therapy and neuroscience and started studying the devotional traditions of the church. — Gregory A. Boyd
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Quotes
Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act. — Claude Adrien Helvetius
The present non-aristotelian system is based on fundamental negative premises; namely, the complete denial of 'identity.' — Alfred Korzybski
His own character is the arbiter of every ones fortune. — Publilius Syrus
Put from you the belief that 'I have been wronged', and with it will go the feeling. Reject your sense of injury, and the injury itself disappears. — Marcus Aurelius
We should pledge ourselves to the proposition that the irresponsible life is not worth living. — Thomas Szasz
Thoughts are mightier than strength of hand. — Sophocles
I would like to be remembered as one of the individuals who founded, ideologically and practically, cognitive behavior therapy and who pioneered multimodal or integrated therapy. — Albert Ellis
Buddhists were actually the first cognitive-behavioral therapists. — Jack Kornfield
The relish of good and evil depends in a great measure upon the opinion we have of them. — Michel de Montaigne
Things can never touch the soul, but stand inert outside it, so that disquiet can arise only from fancies within. — Marcus Aurelius
Cognitive Science Quotes
The cybernetics phase of cognitive science produced an amazing array of concrete results, in addition to its long-term (often underground) influence — Francisco Varela
Chess is a unique cognitive nexus, a place where art and science come together in the human mind and are then refined and improved by experience. — Garry Kasparov
Good design is a Renaissance attitude that combines tech, cognitive science, human need and beauty to produce something. — Paola Antonelli
I think that consciousness has always been the most important topic in the philosophy of mind, and one of the most important topics in cognitive science as a whole, but it had been surprisingly neglected in recent years. — David Chalmers
Given cognitive vulnerabilities, it would be convenient to have an arrangement whereby reality could tell us off; and that is precisely what science is. Scientific methodology is the arrangement that allows reality to answer us back. — Rebecca Goldstein
Cognitive science is a rapidly developing area, so it could be that there are some surprises around the corner. That does seem to be kind of where the trend line is leading. — Louis Menand
I think, in fact, that the connections between philosophy and cognitive science haven't gone far enough, metaphysicians should be working closely with cognitive scientists when they try to understand the sources of our experience of parts of the world such as its causal and temporal parts. — L.A. Paul
I have quite a bit of sympathy for the idea that psychology and cognitive science have much to offer philosophy, and that the reverse is true as well. — L.A. Paul
I largely defer to the cognitive ethologists. I believe that the arguments that they make on this score are extremely persuasive. More than this, I do think as well that a priori objections by philosophers to successful research programs in the sciences have a very bad track record. — Hilary Kornblith
Cognitive Dissonance Quotes
It's a shame cars don't run on cognitive dissonance. — Lewis Black
America has long raised political and cultural cognitive dissonance to an art form. We are capable of living with enormous inequality and injustice while convincing ourselves that we are in fact moving toward what Churchill called the "broad, sun-lit uplands." — Jon Meacham
The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism. — Christopher Hitchens
I suspect that a lot of the stress we see around us arises from the cognitive dissonance set up by one side of the brain hearing very plausible spin while the other side knows it just ain't so. — David Palmer
A good title holds magic, some cognitive dissonance, a little grit between the teeth, but above all it is the jumping-off place into wonder. — Barbara Kingsolver
You'll be pleased to hear, Christopher, that I am no longer a Muslim liberal but an atheist [....] I find that it obviates the necessity for any cognitive dissonance. — Ayaan Hirsi Ali
True believers are continually shown by reality that their god doesn't exist, but have developed extensive coping mechanisms to deal with this cognitive dissonance. — Mark Thomas
What I do is create a lens through my work that corrects my readers' cognitive dissonance and says: you will see all of it - not what you want or what makes you comfortable, but all of it. And you will not erase what displeases you. — Chris Abani
Frankly, I see a lot of little girls dressed in ways I think are not very appropriate. It's too much too soon, and it causes a lot of cognitive dissonance about who they are - are they an 8-year-old, or are they a miniature fill-in-the-blank-celebrity? Parents have to draw the line. — Hillary Clinton
After a while, if you're committed, you start to believe in the things in which you're praying. It's just cognitive dissonance. You can't live a completely religious life and not start to have it sink in. — A. J. Jacobs
A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all people. We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, to be loved, and to belong. When those needs are not met, we don't function as we were meant to. We break. We fall apart. We numb. We ache. We hurt others. We get sick. — Brene Brown
30-60 minutes of bright light exposure may increase cognitive performance and alertness. Early morning sunlight, rich in blue light, interacts with the melanopsin photopigment in our eyes, which acts as a light sensor, effectively synchronizing our internal circadian clock. This interaction dials down melatonin, the sleep hormone, ushering in alertness. Concurrently, there's a sharp spike in our cortisol levels, known as the cortisol awakening response. This isn't just about feeling awake; it's directly linked to enhanced cognitive clarity and performance. Consider aiming for 30-60 minutes of outdoor light exposure in the morning for a symphony of neurochemical shifts that benefit cognition and mood. — Rhonda Patrick
The recent medical controversy over whether vaccinations cause autism reveals a habit of human cognition — thinking anecdotally comes naturally, whereas thinking scientifically does not. — Michael Shermer
Habits reduce cognitive load and free up mental capacity, so you can allocate your attention to other tasks. — James Clear
These systems are the product of evolution, optimized by evolution for a world which no longer exists; it is not surprising then that, however capable our cognitive apparatus is, it too often fails when challenged by tasks completely alien to its biological roots. — Annie Jacobsen
Exercise is the most potent longevity 'drug.' It prolongs lifespan and preserves cognitive function. But exercising the wrong way can do harm. — Peter Attia
Exercise has the greatest power to determine how we live our lives. It reverses physical and cognitive decline and improves emotional health. — Peter Attia
After thirty years of intensive research, we can now answer many of the questions posed earlier. The recycle rate of a human being is around sixteen hours. After sixteen hours of being awake, the brain begins to fail. Humans need more than seven hours of sleep each night to maintain cognitive performance. After ten days of just seven hours of sleep, the brain is as dysfunctional as it would be after going without sleep for twenty-four hours. Three full nights of recovery sleep — Matthew Walker
Coming to understand a painting or a symphony in an unfamiliar style, to recognize the work of an artist or school, to see or hear in new ways, is as cognitive an achievement as learning to read or write or add. — Nelson Goodman
What helps with aging is serious cognition - thinking and understanding. You have to truly grasp that everybody ages. Everybody dies. There is no turning back the clock. So the question in life becomes: What are you going to do while you're here? — Goldie
Research shows that for jobs of all kinds, emotional intelligence is twice as important an ingredient of outstanding performance as cognitive ability and technical skill combined. — Daniel Goleman
You'd think people would realize they're bad at multitasking and would quit. But a cognitive illusion sets in, fueled in part by a dopamine-adrenaline feedback loop, in which multitaskers think they are doing great. — Daniel Levitin
We often attribute 'understanding' and other cognitive predicates by metaphor and analogy to cars, adding machines, and other artifacts, but nothing is proved by such attributions. — John Searle
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