I read passionately with a need to know and see the act of reading as an act of cognition and not simply… — Alexander Theroux 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
“In order to decide, judge; in order to judge, reason; in order to reason, decide (what to reason about).” — Philip Johnson-Laird Copy Share Image
“If the brain was simple enough to be understood - we would be too simple to understand it!” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The one and only true freedom we ALL possess is what we think; and our intentions govern what we think.” — Bryant McGill 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 we can control the environment in which rapid cognition takes place, then we can control rapid cognition — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Forgetting your mistakes is a terrible error if you are trying to improve your cognition. — Charlie Munger 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
Faith is the commitment of one's consciousness to beliefs for which one has no sensory evidence or rational proof. A mystic is… — Ayn Rand 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
“The moment you establish a line of communication between two points, you subtly change both. That is also true for the way… — David Amerland Copy Share Image
The arts make vivid the fact that words do not, in their literal form or number, exhaust what we can know. The… — Elliot W. Eisner Copy Share Image
In one and the same human being there are cognitions that, however utterly dissimilar they are, yet have one and the same… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“At one moment, his eyes sparkled in the light and in the next they were enshrouded in shadow. What connected those bands… — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
The happy life does not mean loving what we possess, but possessing what we love." Possession of the beloved, St. Thomas holds,… — Josef Pieper 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
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 moment we remove the external world from our senses we’ve also removed a large chunk of how we feel inside ourselves.… — David Amerland 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
“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
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
“Over the last three centuries, psychologists have been able to define three distinct parts of the human mind: thoughts, emotions, and motivations.… — Benjamin Smith Copy Share Image
The pure mystic wishes to approach his God only in the all-embracing love. The yogi, too, walks toward one single aspect of… — Franz Bardon 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
“The obvious cure for the tragic shortcomings of human intuition in a high-tech world is education. And this offers priorities for educational… — Steven Pinker 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
“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
Over against any cognition, there is an unknown but knowable reality; but over against all possible cognition, there is only the self-contradictory.… — Charles Sanders Peirce 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
Relativism is neither a method of fighting, nor a method of creating, for both of these are uncompromising and at times even… — Karel Capek 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
Chris Davis [of the Davisfunds] has a temple of shame. He celebrates the things they did that lost them a lot of… — Charlie Munger 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
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
“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
“Our brains tread a tightrope between learning too much from the past and incorporating too much new information from the present. The… — Eli Pariser Copy Share Image
“Liberating education consists in acts of cognition, not transferals of information.” — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
“The limits of our cognition are not defined by the limits of our language.” — Elliot W. Eisner 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 new psyche has removed self-delusion. Compared with so-called healthy individuals, depressives are more realistic in their worldview.” quote by Jan Wong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/aca/jan-wong-58584_cognition_depressive-realism-depression-is-not-the_673516.jpg)
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