"Stairway to Wisdom”) David Brooks detailed the needed……" — David Brooks
"Stairway to Wisdom”) David Brooks detailed the needed ingredients to gaining a deep understanding of a social problem, beginning with the data and moving on to first-hand accounts. The highest rung on his stairway, though, went beyond those: “Empathy opens you up to absorb the good and the bad. Love impels you not just to observe but to seek union—to think as another thinks and feel as another feels."
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74 Quotes by David Brooks
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We shouldn't just allow gay marriage. We should insist on gay marriage. We should regard it as scandalous that two…
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People used to complain that selling a president was like selling a bar of soap. But when you buy soap,…
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I've come to think that flourishing consists of putting yourself in situations in which you lose self-consciousness and become fused…
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To explain the unknown by the known is a logical procedure; to explain the known by the unknown is a…
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How can we expect young people to be rooted in things such as character, morality and honesty? How is one…
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A wise soul once declared that the ultimate power of the writer is that he has the choice of whom…
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People want a reality that tells them they're right all of the time.
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We pretend to be a middle class, democratic nation, but in reality we love our blue bloods. ... We love…
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Highly educated young people are tutored, taught and monitored in all aspects of their lives, except the most important, which…
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The point of being a teacher is to do more than impart facts, it's to shape the way students perceive…
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The prevailing view is that geniuses are largely built, not born.
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It’s easy to see why politicians would be drawn to the populist pose. First, it makes everything so simple. The…
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All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
— Aristotle
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American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.
— Henry Adams
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It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another person's plate.
— Dave Barry
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To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his…
— Jean Baudrillard
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All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of…
— Theodor Adorno
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You need to become a good listener. As you're working, you hear someone else's lines and how you absorb them…
— Jacqueline Bisset
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A good culture in a hospital can absorb and manage a few bad nurses, but once the culture becomes bad…
— Jo Brand
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I've been so blessed to have my career gradually get bigger and bigger, so I've been able to absorb stuff…
— Luke Bryan
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I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so…
— Pearl S. Buck
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We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it…
— Pearl S. Buck
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That's the best thing about writing, when you're in that zone, you're porous, ready to absorb the solution.
— Michael Chabon
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It was stumbling on to really the bible of the blues, you know, and a very powerful drug to be…
— Eric Clapton
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