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
if we can control the environment in which rapid cognition takes place, then we can control rapid cognition — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“Question the answers, I repeated every class. Reevaluate your conclusions when the evidence changes.” — Craig M. Mullaney Copy Share Image
The limits of our language do not define the limits of our cognition. — Elliot W. Eisner 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
Three key humanist virtues are courage, cognition, and caring - not dependence, ignorance, or insensitivity to the needs of others. — Paul Kurtz 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
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
Cognition requires going beyond the information given, to make bets and therefore to risk errors. — Gerd Gigerenzer 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
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
“If the brain was simple enough to be understood - we would be too simple to understand it!” — Anonymous 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
“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
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
“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
“I understand the mechanism of my own thinking. I know precisely how I know, and my understanding is recursive. I understand the… — Ted Chiang Copy Share Image
“In a sense it has been my way to transcendental experience: to the discovery that matter metaphorically speaking, is the creation of… — Humberto R. Maturana Copy Share Image
“We do not have the ideal world, such as we would like, where morality is easy because cognition is easy. Where one… — Philip K. Dick 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