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
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
The issue Fodor writes about is central to the psychology of perception, cognition, and action. It is the central issue for anyone… — Alvin Liberman Copy Share Image
“…depressive realism. Depression is not the near death experience described by so many, [Kayla Dunn] suggests, but a rebirth in which the… — Jan Wong Copy Share Image
“One way or another we are all biased, but still we have the modern cortical capacity to choose whether or not to… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Liberating education consists in acts of cognition, not transferrals of information — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Forgetting your mistakes is a terrible error if you are trying to improve your cognition. — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
In joint scientific efforts extending over twenty years, initially in collaboration with J. C. Shaw at the RAND Corporation, and subsequently with… — Allen Newell 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
“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
“Happiness is a momentary illusion created by momentary neurochemical impulses. Contentment on the other hand, is not a momentary impulse, it is… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“And if she liked and trusted the person who asked, she would add that yes, it was kind of a lot to… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
Just as man's physical existence was liberated when he grasped that 'nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed', so his consciousness will… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
You must have the confidence to override people with more credentials than you whose cognition is impaired by incentive-caused bias or some… — Charlie Munger 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
“English: "Human rethinking is a continuation of evolutionary rethinking." Česky: „Lidské přemýšlení je pokračováním přemýšlení evoluce.” — Sebastián Wortys Copy Share Image
We have discovered that exercise is strongly correlated with increased brain mass, better cognition, mood regulation, and new cell growth. — Eric Jensen Copy Share Image
“If it be true that there can be no metaphysics transcending human reason, it is no less true that there can be… — C.G. Jung 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
The recent medical controversy over whether vaccinations cause autism reveals a habit of human cognition—thinking anecdotally comes naturally, whereas thinking scientifically does… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
In reality, infinity is merely the distance to the heart of a stranger. Eternity is the moment of cognition. — Yehudi Menuhin Copy Share Image
“Our life is just as long or short as our remembering: as rich as our imagining, as vibrant as our feeling, and… — Neel Burton Copy Share Image
There are two principles on which all men of intellectual integrity and good will can agree, as a 'basic minimum,' as a… — Ayn Rand 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
