Cognition Quote by Ayn Rand Download Open image “Emotions are not tools of cognition. They tell you nothing about the nature of reality.” — Ayn Rand ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cognition Emotion Nature Psychology Reality Tools
Emotions are the sums created by details, whether those details are true or not. — Terry Goodkind Copy Share Image
We can't determine our emotions, but we can choose our attitudes and actions. — Gary Chapman Copy Share Image
Emotions are the natural substances of the soul ... and when we think we can't handle the emotions, we lose the natural substances of… — Michael Meade Copy Share Image
Emotions are invisible to our eyes and so we overlook where they are coming from. Yet the truth is that we create them ourselves. — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
An emotion as much tells you nothing about reality, beyond the fact that something makes you feel something. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Your emotions are nothing but biochemical storms in your brain and you are in control of them at any point in time. — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
The emotions I feel are no more meant to be shown in their unadulterated state than the inner organs by which we live. — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Emotions are products of our mind, and we can actually train ourselves to choose whether we banish or embrace them. — Mariella Frostrup Copy Share Image
I think that unless you can take judgments of right and wrong like an automaton, you must have emotions because that is our only… — Joanna Lumley Copy Share Image
There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
She watched the prairies the rivers, the towns slipping past at an untouchable distance below - and she noted that the sense of detachment… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“This was reality, she thought, this sense of clear outlines, of purpose, of lightness, of hope.” — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
A “collective” mind does not exist. It is merely the sum of endless numbers of individual minds. If we have an endless number of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Lobbying' is the activity of attempting to influence legislation by privately influencing the legislators. It is the result and creation of a mixed economy-of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“She moved her hand and let it rest against his. He did not withdraw his fingers and he did not pretend indifference. She bent… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
This miracle of me is mine to own and keep, and mine to guard, and mine to use, and mine to kneel before. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“There was still one response, the greatest, that she had missed. She thought: To find a feeling that would hold, as their sum, as… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government: by an artificial expansion of the money supply required to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“She was fifteen when it occurred to her for the first time that women did not run railroads and that people might object. To… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Fransisco, you're some kind of very high nobility, aren't you?" He answered, "Not yet. The reason my family has lasted for such a long… — Ayn Rand 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 enjoyment, meaning… — Paul Kurtz 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 are as… — David Amerland 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
“The obvious cure for the tragic shortcomings of human intuition in a high-tech world is education. And this offers priorities for educational policy: to… — Steven Pinker 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 moods adjust… — Randolph M. Nesse 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 one had… — Gino Severini 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 reason as… — Nathaniel Branden 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 limits of… — Elliot W. Eisner 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 a healthy… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I worry that the level of interrupt, the sort of overwhelming rapidity of information — and especially of stressful information — is in fact… — Eric Schmidt Copy Share Image
The emergence of a unified cognitive moment relies on the coordination of scattered mosaics of functionally specialized brain regions. Here we review the mechanisms… — Francisco Varela Copy Share Image