Cognition Quotes

• 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

  Thinking, Autism, Doe

  "How Anecdotal Evidence Can Undermine Scientific Results". www.scientificamerican.com. August 01, 2008.

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• 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

  Learning, Knowledge, Soul

  Arnold Bennett (1932). “The Journals of Arnold Bennett ...: 1896-1910”, London, Cassell

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• 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

  Fighting, Literature, Knows

  "On Relativism" by Karel Capek, 1925.

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• Relativism is neither a method of fighting, nor a method of creating, for both of these are uncompromising and at times even ruthless; rather, it is a method of cognition.

  Karel Capek

  Fighting, Creating, Literature

  "On Relativism". Book by Karel Capek, 1925.

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• 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

  Real, Elements, Action

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• In any case, the fewer boundaries that exist hindering free movement between all forms of articulate human cognition, the better.

  Brian Ferneyhough

  Movement, Boundaries, Form

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• Cognition modifies the knower so as to adapt him harmoniously to his acquired knowledge.

  Ludwik Fleck

  Ludwik Fleck (1981). “Genesis and Development of a Scientific Fact”, p.86, University of Chicago Press

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• The emergence of a unified cognitive moment relies on the coordination of scattered mosaics of functionally specialized brain regions. Here we review the mechanisms of large-scale integration that counterbalance the distributed anatomical and functional organization of brain activity to enable the emergence of coherent behaviour and cognition. Although the mechanisms involved in large-scale integration are still largely unknown, we argue that the most plausible candidate is the formation of dynamic links mediated by synchrony over multiple frequency bands.

  Francisco Varela

  Organization, Brain, Behaviour

  "The brainweb: phase synchronization and large-scale integration", Nature Rviews Vol 2, p. 229, 2001.

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• Cognition requires going beyond the information given, to make bets and therefore to risk errors.

  Gerd Gigerenzer

  Errors, Risk, Information

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• Our minds influence the key activity of the brain, which then influences everything; perception, cognition, thoughts and feelings, personal relationships; they’re all a projection of you.

  Deepak Chopra

  Keys, Feelings, Perception

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• Emotions are not tools of cognition. They tell you nothing about the nature of reality.

  Ayn Rand

  Reality, Tools, Emotion

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• 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

  Science, Men, Views

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• Forgetting your mistakes is a terrible error if you are trying to improve your cognition.

  Charlie Munger

  Mistake, Errors, Trying

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• Liberating education consists in acts of cognition, not transferrals of information

  Paulo Freire

  Information, Pedagogy Of The Oppressed, Liberating

  Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.57, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• The arts make vivid the fact that words do not, in their literal form or number, exhaust what we can know. The limits of our language do not define the limits of our cognition.

  Elliot W. Eisner

  Art, Numbers, Vivid

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• If you know yourself, then you'll not be harmed by what is said about you.

  Sufyan al-Thawri

  Self Esteem, Islamic, Knowing

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• Intelligence is that aspect of human cognition that we haven't managed to emulate yet.

  Rob Lowe

  Aspect, Humans, Havens

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• Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

  Carl Sagan

  Positive, Hope, Educational

  Nobel Award Ceremony Speech by Professor Olga Botner, Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 2017.

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• Logic was to cognition as geometry was to landscape

  Kim Stanley

  Landscape, Logic, Geometry

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• In one and the same human being there are cognitions that, however utterly dissimilar they are, yet have one and the same object,so that one can only conclude that there are different subjects in one and the same human being.

  Franz Kafka

  Experience, Different, Being There

  Franz Kafka (1954). “Wedding preparations in the country: and other posthumous prose writings. With notes by Max Brod”

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• Mindfulness has never met a cognition it didn't like.

  Daniel J. Siegel

  Mindfulness, Mets

  Daniel J. Siegel (2007). “The Mindful Brain: Reflection and Attunement in the Cultivation of Well-Being”, p.186, W. W. Norton & Company

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• And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it.

  Adam Weishaupt

  Inspirational, Happiness, Mean

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• Authentic faith is lived wisdom, exact cognition, direct experience.

  Samael Aun Weor

  Direct

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• Faith is the commitment of one's consciousness to beliefs for which one has no sensory evidence or rational proof. A mystic is a man who treats his feelings as tools of cognition. Faith is the equation of feeling with knowledge.

  Ayn Rand

  Commitment, Feelings, Tools

  Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.34, Penguin

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• I read passionately with a need to know and see the act of reading as an act of cognition and not simply a means of passing time.

  Alexander Theroux

  Reading, Mean, Needs

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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