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Mind Quotes by Steven Pinker
- Feminism as a movement for political and social equity is important, but feminism as an academic clique committed to eccentric doctrines about human nature is…
- When it comes to explaining human thought and behavior, the possibility that heredity plays any role at all still has the power to shock. To…
- Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual…
- Most intellectuals today have a phobia of any explanation of the mind that invokes genetics.
- The 9/11 strikes left an indelible impact on our minds, but in relative terms, the scale of casualties actually wasn't all that high.
- The brain is not a bag of traits. It's startlingly complex. There are few or no single genes with a consistent effect on the mind.
- The great appeal of the doctrine that the mind is a blank slate is the simple mathematical fact that zero equals zero.
- Why are empirical questions about how the mind works so weighted down with political and moral and emotional baggage?
- Cognitive psychology has shown that the mind best understands facts when they are woven into a conceptual fabric, such as a narrative, mental map, or…
- Cognitive psychology tells us that the unaided human mind is vulnerable to many fallacies and illusions because of its reliance on its memory for vivid…
- Why do people believe that there are dangerous implications of the idea that the mind is a product of the brain, that the brain is…
- the mind is a neural computer
- Nature is a hanging judge," goes an old saying. Many tragedies come from our physical and cognitive makeup. Our bodies are extraordinarily improbable arrangements of…
- Trivers, pursuing his theory of the emotions to its logical conclusion, notes that in a world of walking lie detectors the best strategy is to…
- The human moral sense can excuse any atrocity in the minds of those who commit it, and it furnishes them with motives for acts of…
More Mind Quotes
- To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the restraints of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. — Aristotle
- I've known you long enough to know you try not to let your feelings show. Lately when I hold you near, I… — Superman
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- You can never really say whats' on your mind, when your family is on Facebook. — Nishan Panwar