Cognitive Quotes

I find that here in the States, audiences are generally less knowledgeable, from the cognitive point of view, though they are emotionally more receptive.

The relish of good and evil depends in a great measure upon the opinion we have of them.

Learning comes from education, while knowing comes from revelation. Learning is cognitive, while knowing is spiritual.

A slew of cognitive traits predisposes us to faith.

Faith is an unclassified cognitive illness disguised as a moral virtue.

Regression analyses show that self-efficacy contributes to achievement behavior beyond the effects of cognitive skills

The speculative part of my work is that these particular cognitive tasks - ways of thinking analytically - are tied to nature's laws.

I think it is important for software to avoiding imposing a cognitive style on workers and their work.

It will be cheering to know that many people are skillful chessplayers, though in many instances their brains, in a general way, compare unfavorably with the cognitive faculties of a rabbit.

[There will be movement toward] behavioral economics... [which] involves study of those aspects of men's images, or cognitive and affective structures that are more relevant to economic decisions.

Most people, probably, are in doubt about certain matters ascribed to their past. They may have seen them, may have said them, done them, or they may only have dreamed or imagined they did so.

Whenever I think of something but can't think of what it was I was thinking of, I can't stop thinking until I think I'm thinking of it again. I think I think too much.

I really haven't been cognitive of gas prices. It wasn't until I filled up my husband's Toyota Prius Hybrid that I had a moment of understanding of how people who drive gas cars feel.

The foundations of the world are to be found, not in the cognitive experience of conscious thought, but in the aesthetic experience of everyday life.

Emotional function and cognitive function aren't unrelated to each other. They're completely intertwined.

When parents have college savings accounts for their kids, their kids show higher social and cognitive performance.

I'm a biologist who has been interested in the biological roots of cognitive phenomena.

Although elephants are far more distantly related to us than the great apes, they seem to have evolved similar social and cognitive capacities.

There is the experience of enlightenment, to be very aware of what lies beyond the boundaries of cognitive perception, reflection and self-awareness as seen by the personality.

There are cognitive processes and limbic reactions associated with basic emotions. And you can change brain chemistry, but you're still not going to change memories and experiences in a human being.

I believe that I have created a lot of cognitive dissonance in the minds of people who are comfortable with stereotypes.

Many of the cognitive enhancement drugs serve to increase focus and concentration. But 'letting your mind wander' is very often an important part of the creative process.

In part because individual judgement is not accurate enough or consistent enough, cognitive diversity is essential to good decision making.

We need to protect the same amount of cognitive liberty in an age where you can invade people's thoughts without physically intruding into their homes than you did at the time of the framing.

Yes, expertise puts on in position to have further, cognitive pleasures, but these pleasures are distinct from the sensory pleasure of tasting wines

I have quite a bit of sympathy for the idea that psychology and cognitive science have much to offer philosophy, and that the reverse is true as well.

Cognitive science is a rapidly developing area, so it could be that there are some surprises around the corner. That does seem to be kind of where the trend line is leading.

Cognitive liberty begins at home, behind your eyes and between your ears. The first act of liberation is to step forward, and be counted as one of us.

It is a vast, and pervasive, cognitive mistake to assume that people who agree with you (or disagree) do so on the same criteria that you care about.

Experiments work when, and only when, they call into action cognitive capacities that might reliably deliver the conclusions drawn.

Everybody has their reasons.

I always look at myself knowing that I will have a certain degree of cognitive distortion.

You’ve got on a white coat. (Ephani) Awesome cognitive powers you have there. (Alexion)

For me, the glory of the human animal is cognitive activity.

All psychedelic explorers should be aware of the concept of what is called a cognitive hallucination. The is a much more insidious phenomenon. This is, quite simply, an out-and-out delusion.

Beauty adds to goodness a relation to the cognitive faculty: so that "good" means that which simply pleases the appetite; while the "beautiful" is something pleasant to apprehend.

Unlike art which contains a message, wine conveys nothing, it has no intellectual or cognitive content

One way of submitting your moral intuitions in relation to some issue to cognitive therapy is to learn more about how people in other cultures think about it.

I've had a lot of cognitive behavioural therapy, and am having a family now.

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation, but you thoughts about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking.

Each of your brains creates its own myth about the universe.

In short, philosophical theories are largely the product of the hidden hand of the cognitive unconscious.

Indoctrination is not just demeaning to the human conscience, it is lethal for the flourishing psychology of the hungry, young mind.

You are too sensitive", says the emotionally immature ignorant without empathy.

Any man could, if he were so inclined, be the sculptor of his own brain.

The female brain is engineered to avoid conflicts at all cost, whereas the male brain pleasures conflicts in the purpose of being the boss.

Physiology and Psychology are not at all separate from each other. Rather they are deeply intertwined.

Of all funny things, truth is the funniest.

In every walk of life, you do have the freedom to choose, but that freedom is based on the perception of the world and yourself which you have gained until that moment of life.

The cognitive science's challenge is to link our consensus reality to our internal reality, but physics' challenge is to link our consensus reality to our external reality.