“ The human brain always concocts biases to aid in the construction of a coherent mental life, exclusively suitable for an individual’s personal needs. Abhijit Naskar
“ One way or another we are all biased, but still we have the modern cortical capacity to choose whether or not to let the harmful biases dictate our behavior. Abhijit Naskar
“ Nightmares are seldom a foreshadowing of real events, but always a showing of real fears. Criss Jami
“ Be careful not to appear obsessively intellectual. When intelligence fills up, it overflows a parody. Criss Jami
“ To be naive is to be unaware of how stupid and cruel other people are; but, by some definitions, ignorance is nearly the opposite of naivety in being a kind of cynicism, in being unaware of their inte… Criss Jami
“ The moment you establish a line of communication between two points, you subtly change both. That is also true for the way the brain is affected by the mind. David Amerland
“ Physiology and Psychology are not at all separate from each other. Rather they are deeply intertwined. Abhijit Naskar
“ I think a lot of psychopaths are just geniuses who drove so fast that they lost control. Criss Jami
“ I wanted that future officer to weigh decisions with a supple mind and to be comfortable with nuance and uncertainty. Craig M. Mullaney
“ Question the answers, I repeated every class. Reevaluate your conclusions when the evidence changes. Craig M. Mullaney
“ Whenever I think of something but can't think of what it was I was thinking of, I can't stop thinking until I think I'm thinking of it again. I think I think too much. Criss Jami
“ To find signals in data, we must learn to reduce the noise - not just the noise that resides in the data, but also the noise that resides in us. It is nearly impossible for noisy minds to perceive any… Stephen Few
“ It is cognition that is the fantasy.... Everything I tell you now is mere words. Arrange them and rearrange them as I might, I will never be able to explain to you the form of Will... My explanation w… Haruki Murakami
“ Travelling, whether in the mental or the physical world, is a joy, and it is good to know that, in the mental world at least, there are vast countries still very imperfectly explored Bertrand Russell
“ I treat my thoughts like an old person treats their valuables: I cannot for the life of me proceed to throwing them out. Criss Jami
“ Needless to say, that meant that the Braekbills student body was quite the psychological menagerie. Carrying that much onboard cognitive processing power had a way of distorting your personality. And… Lev Grossman
“ And if she liked and trusted the person who asked, she would add that yes, it was kind of a lot to deal with: her outward affect was bright and capable, and that was no illusion, but equally real was… Lev Grossman
“ When people have different ideas about which of these four modes of interacting applies to a current relationship, the result can range from blank incomprehension to acute discomfort or outright hosti… Steven Pinker
“ Also, even if technocrats provide reasonable estimates of a risk, which itself is an iffy enterprise, they cannot dictate what level of risk people ought to accept. People might object to a nuclear po… Steven Pinker
