The limits of our language do not define the limits of our cognition. — Elliot W. Eisner Copy Share Image
“Then, as Father had trained him, Rigg thought past his feelings.” — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Liberating education consists in acts of cognition, not transferrals of information — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
We are not talking about a new cognition in relation to abstract art, rather a new area of cognition... — Asger Jorn Copy Share Image
“Cognition attempts to make sense of the world: emotion assigns value.” — Donald A. Norman Copy Share Image
Intelligence is that aspect of human cognition that we haven't managed to emulate yet. — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
“Question the answers, I repeated every class. Reevaluate your conclusions when the evidence changes.” — Craig M. Mullaney Copy Share Image
If, in a democracy, the cognition of the majority is not much better than the cognition of the sheep, democracy will surely… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
“As cognitive scientists have emphasized in recent years, cognition is embodied; you think with your body, not only with your brain.” — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Cognition requires going beyond the information given, to make bets and therefore to risk errors. — Gerd Gigerenzer Copy Share Image
“The human brain always concocts biases to aid in the construction of a coherent mental life, exclusively suitable for an individual’s personal… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
He was trapped in the electrochemical web of cognition, wherein curiosity leads into temptation, temptation leads into fear, and fear is considered… — Laird Barron Copy Share Image
“[Mood allocates] investments of time, effort, resources, and risk taking to maximize Darwinian fitness in situations of varying propitiousness. High and low… — Randolph M. Nesse Copy Share Image
“The brain works in a holistic, cooperative way that makes our basest desire or most abject fear as expressive of who we… — David Amerland Copy Share Image
Many humanists have argued that happiness involves a combination of hedonism and creative moral development; that an exuberant life fuses excellence and… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
Personalities are like impressionistic paintings. At a distance, each person is 'all of a piece'; up close, each is a bewildering complexity… — Theodore Millon Copy Share Image
The psychoanalytic liberation of memory explodes the rationality of the repressed individual. As cognition gives way to re-cognition, the forbidden images and… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
“The destructive effects of video games are not on boys' cognitive abilities or their reaction times, but on their motivation and their… — Leonard Sax Copy Share Image
“Cognition and emotion are both critical parts of normal functioning. As neatly summarized by Dr. Robert Sylwester (whose interview can be found… — Elkhonon Goldberg Copy Share Image
Intuitive cognition of a thing is cognition that enables us to know whether the thing exists or does not exist, in such… — William of Ockham Copy Share Image
Faith is the commitment of one's consciousness to beliefs for which one has no sensory evidence or rational proof. When man rejects… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
Faculty Psychology is getting to be respectable again after centuries of hanging around with phrenologists and other dubious types. By faculty psychology… — Jerry Fodor Copy Share Image
I worry that the level of interrupt, the sort of overwhelming rapidity of information — and especially of stressful information — is… — Eric Schmidt Copy Share Image
“In order to build a truly wise society devoid of any kind of existential crisis, it is imperative that the individuals foster… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
In the early days the Cubism' method of grasping an object was to go round and round it. The Futurists declared that… — Gino Severini Copy Share Image
Whenever humanity seems condemned to heaviness, I think I should fly like Perseus into a different space. I don’t mean escaping into… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“The inconsistencies that haunt our relationships with animals also result from the quirks of human cognition. We like to think of ourselves… — Hal Herzog Copy Share Image
“The mind is more comfortable in reckoning probabilities in terms of the relative frequency of remembered or imagined events. That can make… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Of all the things we are wrong about, error might well top the list ... We are wrong about what it means… — Kathryn Schulz Copy Share Image
While, on the one hand, the end of scientific investigation is the discovery of laws, on the other, science will have reached… — William Mitchinson Hicks Copy Share Image
“Our metaphors for the operation of the brain are frequently drawn from the production line. We think of the brain as a… — Steve Grand Copy Share Image
Many abused children cling to the hope that growing up will bring escape and freedom. But the personality formed in an environment… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
“It is cognition that is the fantasy… Everything I tell you now is mere words. Arrange them and rearrange them as I… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“How then does light return to the world after the eclipse of the sun? Miraculously. Frailly. In thin stripes. It hangs like… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image