Stronger Expand Quotes by David Brooks

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

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

“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

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

I think Barack Obama's foreign policy will be regarded more failure than success.

— David Brooks

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

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

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

Pain now is better than pain deferred.

— David Brooks

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

If it feels all right for you, it's probably OK.

— David Brooks

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