Knowledge Quotes

"Language is not just a tool for communication but for thinking."

"The mediational means we use to think shape the way we think."

"Consciousness is born through language."

"Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do."

"Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death."

"Assimilation is the cognitive process by which a person integrates new perceptual matter into pre-existing cognitive structures."

"Knowledge is not a copy of reality. To know an object, one must act on it."

"Sensori-motor learning is the beginning of all cognitive life."

"Intelligence is not an innate, fixed trait but a developing system of adaptive thinking."

"The more we learn, the more we realize how much we don't know."

"The formation of concepts is one of the highest intellectual processes."

"The growth of knowledge is an ongoing process of construction and reconstruction."

"Understanding requires active engagement with the material to be learned."

"The growth of knowledge is not linear but cyclical and recursive."

"The foundation of all understanding is the active engagement of the learner."

"Understanding arises from the actions we perform on objects."

"We can be blind to the obvious, and blind to our blindness."

"System 1 is automatic and fast, System 2 is deliberate and slow."

"We are prone to overestimate how much we understand about the world."

"The tendency to overweigh low probabilities is the sister of overconfidence."

"Skilled intuition exists, but so does skilled deception."

"Cognitive biases are not errors waiting to happen, they are features of the way the mind works."

"We are all vulnerable to the illusion of understanding."

"We are all intuitive statisticians, but we are all biased intuitive statisticians."

"The illusion of understanding: we feel we understand how things work better than we actually do."

"Inattentional blindness shows us that we see much less of the world than we think we do."

"The brain's ability to shift states depends entirely on attention."

"Emotional intelligence can be developed at any age with intention."

"The words you use become the architecture of your brain."

"Children who are truly seen develop into adults who can see themselves."