Cognition modifies the knower so as to adapt him harmoniously to his acquired knowledge. — Ludwik Fleck Copy Share Image
Emotions are not tools of cognition. They tell you nothing about the nature of reality. — Ayn Rand 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
In reality, infinity is merely the distance to the heart of a stranger. Eternity is the moment of cognition. — Yehudi Menuhin Copy Share Image
“If the brain was simple enough to be understood - we would be too simple to understand it!” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Rather, Spirit, and enlightement, has to be something that you are fully aware of right now. Something you are already looking at… — Ken Wilber 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
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
“A popular myth is that learning is largely a matter of motivation. Increasingly, the key to effective learning in the information era… — Kathryn Alesandrini 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
“…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
If economics wants to understand the new economy, it not only has to understand increasing returns and the dynamics of instability. It… — W. Brian Arthur Copy Share Image
What helps with aging is serious cognition - thinking and understanding. You have to truly grasp that everybody ages. Everybody dies. There… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Products were once designed for the functions they performed. But when all companies can make products that perform their functions equally well,… — Donald A. Norman Copy Share Image
“Human beings possess the gift of personal freedom and liberty of the mind. We each possess the sovereignty over the body and… — Kilroy J. Oldster 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
“Our view of the mind not only shapes our view of ourselves; less obviously, it also shapes our view of that part… — Seán Ó Nualláin 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
Morality must be the heart of our existence, if it is to be what it wants to be for us. The highest… — Novalis Copy Share Image
“Take space. It has to be either finite or infinite, yet neither possibility sits well with our intuitions. When I try to… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Industrial Society is not merely one containing 'industry,' large-scale productive units capable of supplying man's material needs in a way which can… — Ernest Gellner 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
“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
“Yale law professor Dan Kahan, the lead author on this study, attributes the tight correlation between “worldview” and acceptance of climate science… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I'll let you in on a little secret, Garry: everything is history. By the time you notice it, it's already happened. That… — Edward St. Aubyn Copy Share Image
You can't compare the effect of multimedia-tasking and the effect of playing action games. They have totally different effects on different aspects… — Daphne Bavelier Copy Share Image
Cognition is ... not an individual process of any theoretical "particular conciousness." Rather it is the result of a social activity, since… — Ludwik Fleck 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
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
When you go beyond awareness, there is a state of nonduality, in which there is no cognition, only pure being. In the… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj 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
“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
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
The most popular typefaces are the easiest to read; their popularity has made them disappear from conscious cognition. It becomes impossible to… — Zuzana Licko Copy Share Image
Genuine faith is living knowledge, exact cognition, direct experience. For many centuries faith and belief have been confused, and now it takes… — Samael Aun Weor Copy Share Image
We can treat human responses to cognitions as involving law-like connections grounded on free choices which show themselves in our character. — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Human brains - in terms of cognition and emotion and consciousness - are essentially the same as they were at the time… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
You know, whether it be humans or animals. So even humans - before we can speak or we can understand a baby's… — Sheena Iyengar 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/i/aca/jan-wong-58584_cognition_depressive-realism-depression-is-not-the_673516.jpg)
