Adept Quote by Michael Shermer

Humans are pattern-seeking story-telling animals, and we are quite adept at telling stories about patterns, whether they exist or not.

— Michael Shermer

Humans think in stories, and we try to make sense of the world by telling stories.

— Yuval Noah Harari

We [people] are a species that's wired to tell stories. We need stories. It's how we make sense of things. It's how we learn.

— Steven Soderbergh

I think that we're pattern-seeking animals, and what we like best is a story where everything fits together, where there's no puzzle pieces left…

— Noah Hawley

Humans are kind of story-propagating creatures. If you think of how we spend our days, think of all the time you spend on entertainment.…

— Patrick Rothfuss

Stories match the way our species thinks. Equally important, stories are something we share - everyone everywhere tells stories and oddly enough, in the…

— John Daly

Stories--individual stories, family stories, national stories--are what stitch together the disparate elements of human existence into a coherent whole. We are story animals.

— Yann Martel

Stories, we all have stories. Nature does not tell stories, we do. We find ourselves in them, make ourselves in them, choose ourselves in…

— James Orbinski

Humans like stories. Humans need stories. Stories are good. Stories work. Story clarifies and captures the essence of the human spirit. Story, in all…

— Jasper Fforde

I probably get more inspiration for human stories and idiosyncrasies than I do animal stories.

— Jim Davis

We are shaped by stories from the first moments of life, and even before. Stories tell us who we are, why we are here,…

— Daniel Taylor

By nature, human beings search for ways to make sense and meaning out of their lives and their world. One way that we make…

— Susan Campbell Bartoletti