Top 356 Cognitive Quotes & Sayings

I became a cognitive psychologist because I met a bunch of teachers I really liked.

A slew of cognitive traits predisposes us to faith.

You learn emotional experiences as much as you learn cognitive experiences, except that they are more unconscious. Sometimes one represses the cognitive component of it, but it's often more difficult to repress the emotional component.

Oh! To not need cognitive justification for every single thing. Wouldn't that be a life?

Hope is not an emotion; it's a way of thinking or a cognitive process.

I have been amazed by the interest in cognitive behavioral therapy that has developed since 'Feeling Good' was first published in 1980. At that time, very few people had heard of cognitive therapy.

If it's digital, it will be cognitive. If you think that, you're going to change the way you run a business.

Think about when a digital business marries up with what I'll call 'digital intelligence.' It is the dawn of a new era about being a 'cognitive' business. When every product, every service, how you run your company can actually have a piece that learns and thinks as part of it, you will be a cognitive business.

The cognitive development of the players is enormously important, as well as social competence and character values such as discipline and teamwork.

Unlike art which contains a message, wine conveys nothing, it has no intellectual or cognitive content

I always look at myself knowing that I will have a certain degree of cognitive distortion.

I'm doing a lot of cognitive processing. I'm gathering research. I'm processing it. I'm arranging the data. I'm sorting out the narrative. I'm designing. It's almost as if I do all the cognitive work that you then don't have to do. I digest it, process it, and then offer something that's very easy for you to digest.

Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.

We really are creatures of a violent world, biologically speaking - watching violence and learning about it is one of our cognitive drives.

I have problems with the violence and the torture on '24.' What I'm trying to say is that that's not the only story, and I think that the cognitive complexity is as important.

For me, the glory of the human animal is cognitive activity.

There are actually very few deeply 'gifted' kids with transcendent cognitive or artistic abilities.

The potential for cognitive and related technologies to help us pursue new business offerings is extraordinary.

I have quite a bit of sympathy for the idea that psychology and cognitive science have much to offer philosophy, and that the reverse is true as well.

My feeling is that a human being or any complex organism has a system of cognitive structures that develop much in the way the physical organs of the body develop. That is, in their fundamental character they are innate; their basic form is determined by the genetic structure of the organism. Of course, they grow under particular environmental conditions, assuming a specific form that admits of some variation. Much of what is distinctive among human beings is a specific manner in which a variety of shared cognitive structures develop.

I think it is important for software to avoiding imposing a cognitive style on workers and their work.

True believers are continually shown by reality that their god doesn't exist, but have developed extensive coping mechanisms to deal with this cognitive dissonance.

To every object there correspond an ideally closed system of truths that are true of it and, on the other hand, an ideal system of possible cognitive processes by virtue of which the object and the truths about it would be given to any cognitive subject.

I think for leadership positions, emotional intelligence is more important than cognitive intelligence. People with emotional intelligence usually have a lot of cognitive intelligence, but that's not always true the other way around.

As technology increasingly takes over knowledge-based work, the cognitive skills that are central to today's education systems will remain important; but behavioral and non-cognitive skills necessary for collaboration, innovation, and problem solving will become essential as well.

In studying language we can discover many basic properties of this cognitive structure, its organization, and also the genetic predispositions that provide the foundation for its development. So in this respect, linguistics, first of all, tries to characterize a major feature of human cognitive organization. And second, I think it may provide a suggestive model for the study of other cognitive systems. And the collection of these systems is one aspect of human nature.

Walking is the only way proven to stave off cognitive decline - it works.

It's a shame cars don't run on cognitive dissonance.

The ultimate competitive advantage is being cognitive.

Good design is a Renaissance attitude that combines tech, cognitive science, human need and beauty to produce something.

Humans have two kinds of abilities: physical and cognitive.

Buddhists were actually the first cognitive-behavioral therapists.

We cannot therefore say that mental acts contain a cognitive as well as a conative element.

The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism.

Faith is an unclassified cognitive illness disguised as a moral virtue.

I see psychoanalysis, art and biology ultimately coming together, just like cognitive psychology and neuroscience have merged.

The early adolescence years are crucial for a child's cognitive, emotional and social development.

Almost every culture has a cognitive bias for the tough guy, the alpha, the winner.

Regression analyses show that self-efficacy contributes to achievement behavior beyond the effects of cognitive skills

I've had a lot of cognitive behavioural therapy, and am having a family now.

I work in a mix of areas and am informed by them all: child development, psycholinguistics, education, and most especially, cognitive neuroscience.

We're the only species that can look into the future and know that we're going to die one day, and it causes all sorts of cognitive stress on your system.

I find that here in the States, audiences are generally less knowledgeable, from the cognitive point of view, though they are emotionally more receptive.

I think, in fact, that the connections between philosophy and cognitive science haven't gone far enough, metaphysicians should be working closely with cognitive scientists when they try to understand the sources of our experience of parts of the world such as its causal and temporal parts.

Some children naturally have more cognitive control than others, and in all kids this essential skill is being compromised by the usual suspects: smartphones, TV, etc. But there are many ways that adults can help kids learn better cognitive control.

I do agree with Stich that a quick move from our evolutionary origins to the reliability of our cognitive mechanisms is not legitimate. As I see it, the case for the reliability or unreliability of various cognitive mechanisms lies elsewhere.

You’ve got on a white coat. (Ephani) Awesome cognitive powers you have there. (Alexion)

From a cognitive standpoint, I'm very aware that you have no room for error in a picture book. Every word counts.

It is a vast, and pervasive, cognitive mistake to assume that people who agree with you (or disagree) do so on the same criteria that you care about.

Wisdom is tolerance of cognitive dissonance.

The speculative part of my work is that these particular cognitive tasks - ways of thinking analytically - are tied to nature's laws.

What the Bible says is what God has disclosed and we want to approach this sacred text with cognitive reverence.

I believe that I have created a lot of cognitive dissonance in the minds of people who are comfortable with stereotypes.

I'm a biologist who has been interested in the biological roots of cognitive phenomena.

Experiments work when, and only when, they call into action cognitive capacities that might reliably deliver the conclusions drawn.

What I argue is that talk of knowledge plays an important role in theories within cognitive ethology. The idea is this. First, one sees cognitive ethologists arguing that we need to attribute propositional attitudes to some animals in order to explain the sophistication of their cognitive achievements.

Of course our genes will make some capacities very much easier to learn than others, and of course our genes themselves are not learned. But the point remains that genes themselves are not cognitive capacities, and that anything worth calling a cognitive capacity will depend to some degree on learning and so not be innate.

We are all cognitive misers. Our brains do not expend mental resources thoroughly examining problems when snap judgments will do.

The multiplication force of technology on cognitive differences is massive.

Since we all have different cognitive profiles, educators should take those individual differences very seriously.