Cognitive Psychology Quotes

The influence exercised over the human mind by apt analogies is and has always been immense. Whether they translate an established truth into simple language or whether they adventurously aspire to reveal the unknown, they are among the most formidable weapons of the rhetorician.

When I read about genetics, I see breakthroughs every day. And while I'm trying to learn more about behavioral science, I must say that I don't feel I get tremendous intellectual stimulation from most of the things I read.

The psychologists and the metaphysicians wrangle endlessly over the nature of the thinking process in man, but no matter how violently they differ otherwise they all agree that it has little to do with logic and is not much conditioned by overt facts.

A particular train of thought persisted in, be it good or bad, cannot fail to produce its results on the character and circumstances. A man cannot directly choose his circumstances, but he can choose his thoughts, and so indirectly, yet surely, shape his circumstances.

The map is not the territory.

The idea of applying psychology or behavioural sciences to communication is not a new one. It's very old behavioural economics. If it gives you some additional insights - so be it.

As a college student, what really interested me was the human brain and human intelligence.

Why do we remember the past, but not the future?

Memory fades, memory adjusts, memory conforms to what we think we remember.

I took a psychology class, and I think the study of the mind can help me further my acting ability. It's also taught me about getting into an environment with new people and acting like you've known them forever.

Memories images, once they are fixed in words, are erased.

The Law of Concentration states that whatever you dwell upon, grows. The more you think about something, the more it becomes part of your reality.

The most promising ideas begin from novelty and then add familiarity.

The relation of repetitions for learning and for repeating English stanzas needs no amplification. These were learned by heart on the first day with less than half of the repetitions necessary for the shortest of the syllable series.

We all remember things, it's what we remember that determines how we live.

The faculty of memory cannot be separated from the imagination. They go hand in hand. To one degree or another, we all invent our personal pasts. And for most of us those pasts are built from emotionally colored memories.

Every day, I read books on philosophy and science fiction and human consciousness.

Memory is everything. Without it we are nothing.

Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.

Remind a man of what he remembers, and you will make him forget it.

To see is to forget the name of the thing one sees.

Memory believes before knowing remembers. [Light in August]

Neuroscientists are novices at deception.

Forgetting and remembering are governed by laws, but we cannot find out what they are.

The organ of perception acts more readily than judgment.