cognitive associations Quotes

This growth in the number, speed of formation, permanence, delicacy and complexity of associations possible for an animal reaches its acme in the case of man.

It is a funny thing what the brain will do with memories and how it will treasure them and finally bring them into odd juxtapositions with other things, as though it wanted to make a design, or get some meaning out of them, whether you want it or not, or even see it.

The words that we attach to our experience become our experience.

The intellectual evolution of the race consists in an increase in the number, delicacy, complexity, permanence and speed of formation of such associations.

Everything you learn becomes a shortcut for understanding something else.

The name we give to something shapes our attitude toward it.

The reactions music evokes are not feelings, but they are the images, memories of feelings.

So much of what I see reminds me of something I read in a book, when shouldn't it be the other way around?

Associations are both subtle and powerful.