Cognitive Persistence Quotes

No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.

I get so engaged when I have a problem you cannot solve that I just cannot break away from what I am doing - I keep thinking and thinking and cannot stop.

Shakespeare again. Once you let him into your head, he takes up tenancy and will not leave.

One of the frustrations of having a mind trained to think and consider possibilities was that it couldn't simply be stopped once engaged.

The mind, by its very nature, persistently tries to live forever, resisting age and attempting to give itself a form... . When a person passes his prime and his life begins to lose true vigor and charm, his mind starts functioning as if it were another form of life; it imitates what life does, eventually doing what life cannot do.

Habits of thought persist through the centuries; and while a healthy brain may reject the doctrine it no longer believes, it will continue to feel the same sentiments formerly associated with that doctrine.

It is possible to imagine a person so entirely that the image resists attempts to dislodge it.

Memory cannot exist without endurance of the things perceived, and the thing perceived cannot remain where it has never been.