Cognitive Understanding Quotes

Warren Buffett has said many times that people either get value investing in five minutes or they won't get it in five years. So, there is something in the human brain, that for some of us, makes all the difference in the world right away and the patience it requires is part of the wiring process.

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.

Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.

Which is why I am writing this book. To think. To understand. It just happens to be the way I'm made. I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them.

What is not fully understood is not possessed.

I believe that both art and the human striving for cognitive comprehension are manifest forms of the grand game in which nothing more is stipulated than the game's rules; both art and actively solicited perceptions are but special cases of the recurring creative act to which we owe our existence.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.

I would suggest that today, we know about as much concerning the human mind as we knew about the galaxy in 1300.

I try as best I can to enter the realm of nuances of human behavior.

We live by information, not by sight.

One of the things I reject in our cultural divisions is the clash between faith and reason, and I would say the same about mystery and intellect. They are somehow mysteriously akin to each other.

Sometimes it seems as though each new step towards AI, rather than producing something which everyone agrees is real intelligence, merely reveals what real intelligence is not.

I'm really interested in how we understand each other - and whether we can understand each other.

I realized then that I didn't understand anything. I read all the books I could.

Understanding requires insight. Insight must be anchored.

Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there, but just to comprehend those things which are there.

Understanding arises from reducing one type of reality into another.

- My instructors in science and technology have taught us about how the brain works. It's full of electrical impulses. It's like a computer. If you stimulate one part of the brain with an electrode, it... - They know nothing.

Awareness is always the first step.

Being mad is even pleasant. But only a madman understands that.

Now the word-symbols of conceptual ideas have passed so long from hand to hand in the service of the understanding, that they have gradually lost all such fanciful reference.

Nobody has ever been able to experience what they have thoroughly understood - or understand what they have experienced until they have achieved a detachment that renders them incapable of repeating the experience.

Faith is the Knowledge of the Heart, Logick the Knowledge of the Mind.

Before I came here I was confused about this subject. Having listened to your lecture I am still confused. But on a higher level.