Cognitive Joy Quotes

The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.

The natural inclination of a child is to take pleasure in the use of the mind no less than of the body. The child's primary business is learning. It is also the primary entertainment. To retain that orientation into adulthood, so that consciousness is not a burden but a joy, is the mark of the successfully developed human being.

To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.

In-depth studies have an influence on general ideas, whereas theories, in turn, in order to maintain themselves, push their spectators to search for new evidence. The mind's activity that is maintained by the debates about these works, is probably the source of the greatest joys given to man to experience on Earth.

Intellectual effort gives me enormous pleasure

We are an intelligent species and the use of our intelligence quite properly gives us pleasure. In this respect the brain is like a muscle. When we think well, we feel good. Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.

What I always want is to have several little 'aha' moments where your brain is very happy.

The highest, most varied and lasting pleasures are those of the mind.

I obtain great satisfaction out of using my intellect.

The joy of the mind is the measure of its strength.

I live in the land of delight - of just walking in the street, and the sun is shining, and I'm on my way to Starbucks and I'm feeling good. I also live for those aha! moments when you understand something new, when you see two things fitting together to make a surprising third. There's actually a chemical that's produced in the brain by learning that gives you that little ecstatic moment of, Oh, that's why.