Enlightened Quote by Janeane Garofalo

It was weird that I was a young person who was Republican. And I wanted to get at the heart of why it was…

— Kristen Soltis Anderson

I haven't met a single person, Republican or Democrat, who thinks it's just fine for members of Congress to sit on the boards of…

— Tom Malinowski

When it comes to how neuroscience could help the wider public, the worst thing is when we make advances in, say, mindfulness, and then…

— Robert Sapolsky

“One brain’s blueprint may promote joy more readily than most; in another, pessimism reigns. Whether happiness infuses or eludes a person depends, in part,…

— Thomas Lewis

The brain is a tissue. It is a complicated, intricately woven tissue, like nothing else we know of in the universe, but it is…

— David H. Hubel

“The paradigm for our relationships is formed from our earliest experiences and is actually hardwired into our neurological and emotional network.”

— Sharon Salzberg

“Perception is like painting a scenery - no matter how beautifully you paint, it will still be a painting of the scenery, not the…

— Abhijit Naskar

“[I]f you can be with the pleasant without chasing after it, with the unpleasant without resisting it, and with the neutral without ignoring it…

— Rick Hanson

“Sometimes, humanity surprises me with all its lack of control over the primordial urges. These innate urges are the biological traits that make us…

— Abhijit Naskar

“...what draws us into a story and keeps us there is the firing of our dopamine neurons, signaling that intriguing information is on the…

— Lisa Cron

“The conscious events that we are aware of are physical events in their own right, just as much as the brain events observed in…

— William Hirstein

“The purpose of all of this (left hemisphere's way of choosing denial or repression over considering an anomaly) is to impose stability on behavior…

— V.S. Ramachandran