Quotes About Human Cognition

#1. Hegel believed that the basis of human cognition changed from one generation to the next. There were therefore no 'eternal truths', no timeless reason. The only fixed point philosophy can hold on to is history itself.

Jostein Gaarder

#2. All human cognition begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to conceptions, and ends with ideas.

Immanuel Kant

#3. In any case, the fewer boundaries that exist hindering free movement between all forms of articulate human cognition, the better.

Brian Ferneyhough

#4. Nobody phrases it this way, but I think that artificial intelligence is almost a humanities discipline. It's really an attempt to understand human intelligence and human cognition.

Sebastian Thrun

#5. Lift the demands of time pressure, though, and some of the true power of human cognition becomes evident. Given the opportunity, we often behave in a decidedly off-line way: stepping back, observing, assessing, planning, and only then taking action. It

Anonymous

#6. The recent medical controversy over whether vaccinations cause autism reveals a habit of human cognition - thinking anecdotally comes naturally, whereas thinking scientifically does not.

Michael Shermer

#7. Love is harsh, and it consumes. And more than anything, it demands sacrifice.

Tim Lebbon

#8. In one and the same human being there are cognitions that, however utterly dissimilar they are, yet have one and the same object,so that one can only conclude that there are different subjects in one and the same human being.

Franz Kafka

#9. Wise is the man who contents himself with the spectacle of the world.

Ricardo Reis

#10. I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.

Saint Bernard

#11. Human reason, in one sphere of its cognition, is called upon to consider questions, which it cannot decline, as they are presented by its own nature, but which it cannot answer, as they transcend every faculty of the mind.

Immanuel Kant

#12. The news anchor is exactly that - an anchor, a center, a focus.

Jessica Savitch

#13. Everybody is trying to be so trendy. I think not being trendy should be the next trend.

Brian Molko

#14. "The Prince Of Tides" is a lot about my mother - what my mother would do after Dad would hit one of the kids or hit two of the kids, hit all the kids, hit her, she would usually get in the car. We'd drive out. She would say, I'm going to divorce him. I'm never going back.

Terry Gross

#15. Her laughter was like sweet deadly venom.

H.P. Lovecraft

#16. A healthy PFC means a healthy cognitive grip over the world with very little elements of prejudice.

Abhijit Naskar

#17. Mechanism as a philosophic doctrine might be defined as the belief that the last machine which human ingenuity has created gives us the final form of reality.

William Barrett

#18. Is your sales call so valuable that your client would write a check for your visit?

Neil Rackham

#19. Any ape can reach for a banana, but only humans can reach for the stars.

V.S. Ramachandran

#20. The most ridiculous activity of human mind is questioning. Cognition of reality surpasses both question and answer, however ingenious.

Raheel Farooq

#21. In the infinite black space of ignorance, it is as if stands as the basic operation of cognition, the mark perhaps of consciousness itself. Human

Kim Stanley Robinson

#22. Musicians, actors, writers - we're all neurotic, odd people who've lucked into accidental careers. So I just don't like being around public figures with that sense of entitlement, it just seems unhealthy, and it strips so much potential for them to develop as a human being.

Moby

#23. In my heart are the deeds my body has done and my heart has been weighed in the balance.

Normandi Ellis

#24. Prayer is futility when compared to belief.

James Cook

#25. Human reflection is chronically overrated, though, and we now suspect that our own reaction to food poisoning is in fact similar to that of rats. Garcia's findings forced comparative psychology to admit that evolution pushes cognition around, adapting it to the organism's needs.

Frans De Waal

#26. We should not forget that the spark which ignited the American Revolution was caused by the British attempt to confiscate the firearms of the colonists.

Patrick Henry

#27. The causal, abstract, binary, holistic, and reductionist functions of the human brain all help you to process the enormous amount of information coming into our brain from the external world every day.

Abhijit Naskar

#28. What the new science of anthrozoology reveals is that our attitudes, behaviors, and relationships with the animals in our lives- the ones we love, the ones we hate, and the ones we eat- are, likewise, more complicated than we thought.

Hal Herzog

#29. The hypocrisy seems pathological among the stars. And yet we desperately want to believe Armstrong is immune to dishonesty in the same way everyone wanted to grant McGwire a pass in 1998.

Selena Roberts

#30. when both are sincere and good, no men so penetrate each other, and so amalgamate with each other, as an old priest and an old soldier. At bottom, the man is the same. The one has devoted his life to his country here below, the other to his country on high; that is the only difference.

Victor Hugo

#31. If it be true that there can be no metaphysics transcending human reason, it is no less true that there can be no empirical knowledge that is not already caught and limited by the a priori structure of cognition.

C. G. Jung

#32. The common growth of Mother Earth Suffices me,-her tears, her mirth, Her humblest mirth and tears.

William Wordsworth