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Blank Slate Quotes by Steven Pinker
- The great appeal of the doctrine that the mind is a blank slate is the simple mathematical fact that zero equals zero.
- The strongest argument against totalitarianism may be a recognition of a universal human nature; that all humans have innate desires for life, liberty and the…
More Blank Slate Quotes
- My loneliness...still comes over me sometimes...It's a liminal, lost sensation of having wandered wide, endless boulevards, among rows of orange trees, winter… — Unknown Author
- As a matter of principle, I always come to a film like a blank slate, I don't learn my lines in advance.… — Jeanne Moreau
- When a dancer comes onstage, he is not just a blank slate that the choreographer has written on. Behind him he has… — Mikhail Baryshnikov
- Whenever I finish a book, I start with a blank slate and never have ideas lined up. — Erik Larson
- When absolutes are abandoned for principles, the U.S. Constitution becomes a blank slate for anyone’s graffiti. — Wayne LaPierre
- Contrary to what some parents might believe or hope for, children are not born a blank slate. Rather, they come into the… — Jane Brody
- Music is the chalk to the blackboard of life. Without it everything is a blank slate — Ray Charles
- I argued that the Bush administration, and the Coalition officials more recently, didn't understand Iraqi society. They thought it was a blank… — Juan Cole
- The brain is highly structured, but it is also extremely flexible. It's not a blank slate, but it isn't written in stone,… — Alison Gopnik
- I am a blank slate - therefore I can create anything I want. — Tobey Maguire
- Most people have a blank slate and can start from nothing. But for me, I had to break a bad habit that… — Roshon Fegan
- I try and reduce myself to an almost blank slate and hope to God that I am creative. — Ben Kingsley