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Cognition Quotes

"Every acquisition of accommodation becomes material for assimilation, but assimilation always resists new accommodations "

"Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection."

"I think more than I forget."

"You must understand that seeing is believing, but also know that believing is seeing"

"The thing about smart people is that they seem like crazy people to dumb people."

"All human knowledge thus begins with intuitions, proceeds thence to concepts, and ends with ideas."

"A lot of people can't remember things because they weren't actually there to begin with. It's like housewives who say they can't remember their first orgasm. Of course they can't - they weren't there at the time."

"It is remarkable that the human mind can manage to be so wrong yet so confident"

"The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant"

"Feeling is what you get for thinking the way you do."

"People not only don't know what's happening to them, they don't even know that they don't know."

"It is not enough to possess a good mind; one must also apply it"

"I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few."

"Understanding itself is a dynamic and context-dependent process."

"It's not a matter of what is true that counts but a matter of what is perceived to be true."

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