Cognitive Disorder Quotes

Religion is a species of mental disease.

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

I was diagnosed with a severe temporal spatial deficit, a learning disability that means I have zero spatial relations skills. It was official: I was a genius trapped in an idiot's body.

Where a man has a passion for meditating without the capacity of thinking, a particular idea fixes itself fast, and soon creates a mental disease.

When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.

I teach that all men are mad.

I don't have a very logical and orderly mind.

It takes madness to find out madness.

Atheism is a disease of the mind caused by eating underdone philosophy

Poetry is the disease of the brain.

Mental illness, of course, is not literally a 'thing' - or physical object - and hence it can 'exist' only in the same sort of way in which other theoretical concepts exist.

In general, people are afraid to acknowledge hallucinations because they immediately see them as a sign of something awful happening to the brain, whereas in most cases they're not.

In short, herein seems to lie the difference between idiots and madmen, that madmen put wrong ideas together, and so make wrong propositions, but argue and reason right from them: but idiots make very few or no propositions, and reason scarce at all.

Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.

Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I.

My cerebral cortex, the gray matter that MIT neuroscientist Steven Pinker likens to 'a large sheet of two-dimensional tissue that has been wadded up to fit inside the spherical skull,' is riddled instead of whole.

Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy.

It's not clear whether the brain actually is designed to have nightmares or whether this is actually the process going awry.

We have arrived at an intellectual chaos.

The truth is everybody does it from time to time. People dial telephone numbers and they get a wrong number only to find that they've read the last two digits backwards. Everybody does it, but dyslexics have this tendency to a higher degree.

I'm kind of A.D.D., and so my mind wanders a lot.

The Lyme disease had so severely affected my brain functioning that it was extremely hard for me to think, form sentences, and stay focused.

Dr. Kertesz mentioned to me a case known to him of a farmer who had developed prosopagnosia and in consequence could no longer distinguish (the faces of) his cows, and of another such patient, an attendant in a Natural History Museum, who mistook his own reflection for the diorama of an ape

You wouldn't know it, but I'm no good at recognising people; I have face blindness.

He was certain he was anorectic, because every time he looked in a mirror he saw a fat man. It was the Archchancellor, standing behind him and shouting at him.