Quotes about Cognition
Our ability to sense reality is limited.
— Billy Graham
The hand is defined as "the organ of apprehension." How perfectly the definition fits my case in both senses of the word "apprehend"! With my hand I seize and hold all that I find in the three worlds—physical, intellectual, and spiritual.
— Helen Keller
For, as I know that I am, so I know this also, that I know.
— St. Augustine
We both know that, my friend, but a man's perception soon becomes his reality.
— Tim LaHaye
To know. Not to know about.
— Ted Dekker
We hear and apprehend only what we already half know.
— Henry David Thoreau
Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare
— Henry David Thoreau
We cannot see anything until we are possessed with the idea of it, take it into our heads, - and then we can hardly see anything else.
— Henry David Thoreau
Nothing was ever so unfamiliar and startling to a man as his own thoughts
— Henry David Thoreau
To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.
— Confucius
The soul never thinks without a picture.
— Aristotle
The intelligentsia are those who have been educated beyond their intelligence.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen