Courage is the most important virtue because it is the hardest. — David Brooks Character Copy Share Image
If you thought Donald Trump was going to be swallowed up by the conventional Republican Party or by Washington, you were wrong. — David Brooks Copy Share Image
People who don't like Trump really don't like Trump. And I guess I'm among them. — David Brooks People Copy Share Image
It’s only useful to ask, what wisdom have you learned from your misjudgments that will help you going forward? — David Brooks Copy Share Image
I think Barack Obama's foreign policy will be regarded more failure than success. — David Brooks Copy Share Image
“David Buss's survey suggest that kindness is the most important quality desired in a sexual partner by both men and women.” — David Brooks Kindness Copy Share Image
“Friends usually bring out better versions of each other. People feel unguarded and fluid with their close friends.” — David Brooks Close friends Copy Share Image
I was really fortunate that I went to a high school where we actually had a film theory program. — David Brooks Cinema Copy Share Image
I don't know if I'm sexist, though I have not paid much attention to the women's bracket. — David Brooks Attention Copy Share Image
“It is an emotional and an enchanted place. If the study of the conscious mind highlights the importance of reason and analysis,… — David Brooks Conscious mind Copy Share Image
President-elect [Donald] Trump's ambassador to Israel is further to the right than almost anyone in Israel, further to the right than Bibi… — David Brooks Ambassadors Copy Share Image
Betsy DeVos is not the most informed person on education policy, but I have seen her present a few times, and she… — David Brooks Care Copy Share Image
We have rapidly increasing technology, which is making life very good for people who are good at using words, and not so… — David Brooks Language Copy Share Image
When you talk about the problem of illegal immigration, people are angry and polarized. When you talk about the answers, the debate… — David Brooks Angry Copy Share Image
Putin is someone who has been undermining the norms of what we consider the world order since he got into power and… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
I've argued that Trump's biggest success in his first 100 days was to keep the Russia story at bay, toss out whatever… — David Brooks Success Copy Share Image
We live in a culture that encourages us to be big about ourselves, and I think the starting point of trying to… — David Brooks About yourself Copy Share Image
Of course I don't know what's going on in that meeting on in the mind of Donald Trump. But I do know… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
“Your unconscious wants to entangle you in the thick web of relations that are the essence of human flourishing. It longs and… — David Brooks Love Copy Share Image
I think the twenty-first century happened, basically. That this century started on 9/11. And basically, it's been a century of counter reaction… — David Brooks Around the world Copy Share Image
If you do have to look at polls, you should do it no more than once every few days, to get a… — David Brooks Anxiety Copy Share Image
It's important for presidents to emotionally connect, with the country in times of crisis, but also with people in Washington. If you… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Most poor people in America are white. The family breakdown issue is an issue that crosses all sorts of racial lines. High… — David Brooks America Copy Share Image
With a normal president like President [Barack] Obama, he says a word, and that's because there has been some thought that he's… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
The roots of great innovation are never just in the technology itself. They are always in the wider historical context. They require… — David Brooks Faces Copy Share Image
“Many of these policies were proposed by wonks who are comfortable only with traits and correlations that can be measured and quantified.… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
“In times of crisis, you get a public reaction that is incoherence on stilts. On the one hand, most people know that… — David Brooks Business Copy Share Image
“A few minutes after they left, Harold bought the blanket from his bed, surrounded himself with his stuffed-toy animals, and built a… — David Brooks Childhood Copy Share Image
“Julia's sexual tastes were more influenced by culture than Rob's. Men want to do the same sexual acts regardless of education levels,… — David Brooks Educated women Copy Share Image
“This starchy formality is not in vogue today. We carry ourselves in ways that are more natural and relaxed. We worry about… — David Brooks Courage Copy Share Image
“Adults should want two things, he said, and these were the two things he wanted from his own life: First, he wanted… — David Brooks Failure Copy Share Image
There was this famous clash of civilization thesis from Samuel Huntington, a political theorist. And the idea was that Western civilization is… — David Brooks Age Copy Share Image
“Why, over the past two decades, have we seen this epidemic of loneliness and meanness, this breakdown in the social fabric? We… — David Brooks Caring Copy Share Image
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