Cognitive Failure Quotes

I'm not good at remembering things, in general.

I'm tryin' to think, but nothin' happens!

Just when I nearly had the answer, I forgot the question.

We're beautiful devices. The devices work well; we're all experts in what we do. But when the mechanism fails, those failures can tell you a lot about how the mind works.

There are times, they occur with increasing frequency nowadays, when I seem to know nothing, when everything I know seems to have fallen out of my mind like a shower of rain, and I am gripped for a moment in paralysed dismay, waiting for it all to come back but with no certainty that it will.

The brain is where most people really screw up.

I have a terrible memory.

The world supports a multi-million dollar industry of intelligence and ability research, but it devotes virtually nothing to determine why this intelligence is squandered by engaging in amazing, breathtaking acts of stupidity.

I have been Foolish and Deluded, and I am a Bear of No Brain at All.

The words walked right out of my mouth.

The average person pushes an elevator button 6 or 7 minutes before realizing it's not working. I did a study on this, you know.

But there are some situations of the human mind in which good sense has very little power.

The great fault of mankind is that it will not think.

Just as the results of inebriety are most painful to the habitually sober, and just as the greatest saints have often been the greatest sinners, so, when the first class brain does something stupid, the stupidity of that occasion is colossal.

At a certain point your brain stops to rationalize things. At a certain point it gives up, shuts off, shuts down.

The cold stream of visual impressions failed him now as if the eye were a cup that overflowed and let the rest run down its china walls unrecorded.

Miss Searle had always considered boredom an intellectual defeat.

I tried. Can't do it. Brain's empty.

Short term memory is not good.

Mrs Weaver nosed among the books, too dim-witted to grasp that they were in alphabetical order.

I fear if I cannot think again, if my mind suddenly goes blank. It will be embarrassing.

It's reassuring to realize that everybody is as stupid as you are and that all we are doing when we are standing in the kitchen wondering what we came in here for is "woking.

Rationality is an achievement that can be undone at any moment.

I'm quite forgetful.

I really don't retain information - by the time I arrive wherever I'm going, I already forget what it is that I wanted to say.