The brain is not the mind. It is probably impossible to look at a map of brain activity and predict or even… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Our emotions tell us what to value. They're like a little GPS system: Go that way. Don't go that way. — David Brooks Copy Share Image
One of the things this world is finding is that emotion is the basis of reason. We really have to trust our… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
We have the choice to choose how we're going to educate our emotions. — 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 Copy Share Image
We don't have the choice to control our emotions, but we do have the power to educate our emotions. And we do… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
I'm not the most emotionally attuned guy in the world. My wife says that me writing about emotion is like Gandhi writing… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
I came to the conclusion is that we have a very shallow view of human nature in the policy world. We're really… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
The brain is not the mind. It is probably impossible to look at a map of brain activity and predict or even understand the… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
When you're running for president, you're a guest in the living room for four years. And if people don't think you're going to be… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
“I’ve come to think that flourishing consists of putting yourself in situations in which you lose self-consciousness and become fused with other people, experiences,… — David Brooks 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 good for… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
I think Barack Obama's foreign policy will be regarded more failure than success. — David Brooks Copy Share Image
If you know that most processing is below the level of awareness, you learn the value of sleep. You're brain is working on the… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Trade has suddenly become massively unpopular. I think that's massively unjust. I think free trade has been wonderful for America on balance. — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Politics is based on social identity, and so, again, there is going to be differences between rural and urban and between left and right. — David Brooks Copy Share Image
It’s worth noting that you can devote your life to community service and be a total schmuck. You can spend your life on Wall… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
I do think Donald Trump is a fundamentally unstabilizing force and that the people who swore to uphold the Constitution are going to have… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
