Quotes about Cognition

All evils to which so many become addicted begin in the mind and in the way one thinks.

It's really hard to watch things and then not think about anything afterwards.

What does reason know? Reason only knows what it has succeeded in learning.

Everyone knows what attention is. It is taking possession of the mind, in clear and vivid form, of one out of what seems several simultaneously possible objects or trains of thought. Focalization, concentration of consciousness are of its essence. It implies a withdrawal from some things in order to deal effectively with others.

The soul never thinks without a picture.

Memory is the primary and fundamental power, without which there could be no other intellectual operation.

The reason we are justified in trusting our minds is that God designed them to "fit" the world he created.

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

Words are an extension of our thoughts, but we are our thoughts. Proverbs 23:7 says, "As [a man] thinks in his heart, so is he" (nkjv). God desires not to talk to you, but to "think" to you. This is what Jesus meant when He said, "I do what I see My Father doing" (John 5:19). The text implies, "I do what I mentally see My Father thinking.

Reading to the mind is what exercise is to the body.

People more often need to be reminded than informed.

they have ears, but cannot hear; they have noses, but cannot smell;