Brain Quote by Maryanne Wolf

For me, literacy means freedom. For the individual and for society.

— LeVar Burton

Emotional Literacy means being able to recognise what you are feeling, so that it doesn't interfere with thinking. It becomes another dimension to draw…

— Susie Orbach

The nice thing about having a brain is that one can learn, that ignorance can be supplanted by knowledge, and that small bits of…

— Douglas Hofstadter

The study of thinking machines teaches us more about the brain than we can learn by introspective methods. Western man is externalizing himself in…

— William S. Burroughs

“But all this doesn´t happen effortlessly, as demonstrated by patients who surgically recover their eyesight after decades of blindless: they do not suddenly see…

— David Eagleman

“Bit literacy means letting the bits go; anything else perpetuates the problem.”

— Mark Hurst

When humans invented material inequality, they came up with a way of subjugating the low-ranking like nothing ever seen before in the primate world.

— Robert Sapolsky

“Dullness. Only humans could have invented it. What imaginations they had.”

— Terry Pratchett

“Humans have invented all kinds of symbols to communicate not only with other humans but more importantly with ourselves.”

— don Jose Ruiz

When humans invented inequality and socioeconomic status, they came up with a dominance hierarchy that subordinates like nothing the primate world has ever seen…

— Robert Sapolsky

Eventually, humans invented agriculture, which could be understood as a way of turning the natural world into a tool for our use. There's evidence…

— Annalee Newitz

As work in neurosciences indicates, the acquisition of literacy necessitated a new circuit in our species' brain more than 6,000 years ago. That circuit…

— Maryanne Wolf