Cognitive Inhibition Quotes

The harder you tried not to think, the more you thought.

The less men think, the more they talk.

You perceive now, my friends, what your general or abstract duty is as teachers. Although you have to generate in your pupils a large stock of ideas, any one of which may be inhibitory, yet you must also see to it that no habitual hesitancy or paralysis of the will ensues, and that the pupil still retains his power of vigorous action.

If desire did not dim the brain, nobody would ever get married, drunk, or fat. ~Val

The slavery of fear had made men afraid to think.

You have a brake in your brain that stops you doing stupid things. The older you are, the earlier that brake comes on. When you're 20 you stop at nothing; when you're older you're cleverer than when you're 20, so your brain brake operates more often!

Indeed, it is sometimes almost as if the problem had to be forgotten to be solved.

sooner or later, if the activity of the mind is restricted anywhere it will cease to function even where it is allowed to be free.

I am scared to answer questions. I do not think and answer. I say whatever comes to my mind.

Fear of ideas makes us impotent and ineffective.

Most people stop learning out of fear. They are afraid they cannot learn.

I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires.