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Alison Gopnik has 53 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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The brain knows the real secret of seduction, more effective than even music and martinis. Just keep whispering, 'Gee, you are really…
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Ineffective or weak brain connections are pruned in much the same way a gardener would prune a tree or bush, giving the…
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What's it like to be a baby? It's like being in love in Paris for the first time after you've had three…
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Owning our past allows us to own our future.
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The largest and most powerful computers are still no match for the smallest and weakest humans.
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It's turns out to be much easier to simulate a grandmaster chess player than it is to simulate a 2-year-old.
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Babies and young children are like the research and development division of the human species, and we grown-ups are production and marketing,
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Scientists learn about the world in three ways: They analyze statistical patterns in the data, they do experiments, and they learn from…
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The brain is highly structured, but it is also extremely flexible. It's not a blank slate, but it isn't written in stone,…
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Because we imagine, we can have invention and technology. It's actually play, not necessity, that is the mother of invention.
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I'm afraid the parenting advice to come out of developmental psychology is very boring: pay attention to your kids and love them.
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Adults often assume that most learning is the result of teaching and that exploratory, spontaneous learning is unusual. But actually, spontaneous learning…
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The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach; but we shut our eyes, and, like people in the…
— Seneca the Younger
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When we admit our vulnerability, we include others. If we deny it, we shut them out.
— May Sarton
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The choice to follow love through to its completion is the choice to seek completion within ourselves. The point at which we…
— Marianne Williamson
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I think we all have a little voice inside us that will guide us. It may be God, I don't know. But…
— Christopher Reeve
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If you don't handle [exceptions], we shut your application down. That dramatically increases the reliability of the system.
— Anders Hejlsberg
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Meditation is the way in which we come to feel our basic inseparability from the whole universe, and what that requires is…
— Alan Watts
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At this time of crisis we cannot be concerned solely with ourselves, withdrawing into loneliness, discouragement and a sense of powerlessness in…
— Pope Francis
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Books, like all art, breed in us desire. In times of crisis and fear and misrepresentation we need desire, or else we…
— Lidia Yuknavitch
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We who are rich are often demanding and difficult. We shut ourselves up in our apartments and may even use a watchdog…
— Jean Vanier
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Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate, or despise, serves to defeat us in…
— Henry Miller
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When we suffer we have made it into a personal affair. We shut out all the suffering of mankind.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize…
— Henry Miller
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