1. cognition - Noun
2. cognition - Verb
The act of knowing; knowledge; perception.
That which is known.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThere can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul. Arnold Bennett
If the object of all human investigation were but to produce in cognition a reflection of the world as it exists, of what value would be all its labor and pains, which could result only in vain repetition, in an imitation within the soul of that which exists without it? Carl Friedrich Gauss
Human cognition (re)creates the gods who sustain hope beyond sufficient reason and commitment beyond self interest. Humans ideally represent themselves to one another in gods they trust. Through their gods, people see what is good in others and what is evil. Scott Atran
There was no cognition he realized. There was only perception. Stephen Baxter
Cognition is not fighting, but once someone knows a lot, he will have much to fight for, so much that he will be called a relativist because of it. Karel Čapek
Relativism is neither a method of fighting, nor a method of creating, for both of these are uncompromising and at times even ruthless; rather, it is a method of cognition. Karel Čapek