Cognition Quotes

"Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding?" "Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument" "Our world is fast changing, but our basic ability to reason has remained largely unchanged for millennia." "Feeling is what you get for thinking the way you do." "What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears" "What we see depends mainly on what we look for" "People not only don't know what's happening to them, they don't even know that they don't know." "To express the same idea in still another way, I think that human knowledge is essentially active" "It is remarkable that the human mind can manage to be so wrong yet so confident" "Nothing is in the mind which was not first in the senses, except the mind itself." "The learned ignore the evidence of their senses to preserve the coherence of the ideas of their imagination" "It is not enough to possess a good mind; one must also apply it" "It's not a matter of what is true that counts but a matter of what is perceived to be true." "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night" "No two people's intelligences are the same"