Entire Quote by Steven Pinker Download Open image “It's misleading to essentialize an entire society as if it were a single mind.” — Steven Pinker ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Entire Mind Misleading Psychology Single Society Were
The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The mind, whatever else it is, is a constant of everyone's experience, and, in more ways than we know, the creator of the reality… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
It is not a mind, it is not a body that we educate, but it is a man, and we must not make two… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
No mind is so good that it does not need another mind to counter and equal it, and to save it from conceit and… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The mind is the thing that we must stretch in order to broaden our reality and capabilities. — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
Not only do we as individuals get locked into single-minded views, but we also reinforce these views for each other until the culture itself… — Ellen Langer Copy Share Image
What we call a mind is nothing but a heap or collection of different perceptions, united together by certain relations and supposed, though falsely,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Multiplicity is only apparent, in truth, there is only one mind... — Erwin Schrodinger Copy Share Image
What I believe is that all clear-minded people should remain two things throughout their lifetimes: Curious and teachable. — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Forcing modern speakers of English to not - whoops, not to split an infinitive because it isn't done in Latin makes about as much… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Consistent style prevents presentation from getting in the way of content. — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
The supposedly immaterial soul, we now know, can be bisected with a knife, altered by chemicals, started or stopped by electricity, and extinguished by… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
I've never argued that humans are massively hot-wired. What I was trying to point out was that you can't understand how we learn unless… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
As many political writers have pointed out, commitment to political equality is not an empirical claim that people are clones. — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Since violence is largely a male pastime, cultures that empower women tend to move away from the glorification of violence and are less likely… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
When it comes to explaining human thought and behavior, the possibility that heredity plays any role at all still has the power to shock.… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Morality is not just any old topic in psychology but close to our conception of the meaning of life. Moral goodness is what gives… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“The biblical story of the binding of Isaac shows that human sacrifice was far from unthinkable in the 1st millennium BCE. The Israelites boasted… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Part of the bargain of being alive is that one takes a chance at dying a premature or painful death, be it from violence,… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
In fact, without a specification of a creature's goals, the very idea of intelligence is meaningless. A toadstool could be given a genius award… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“The obvious cure for the tragic shortcomings of human intuition in a high-tech world is education. And this offers priorities for educational policy: to… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
A monkey is unaware that atoms exist. Likewise, our brainpower may not stretch to the deepest aspects of reality. The bedrock nature of space… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
I love making movies, and being in any that I can be in. I'd like to be in those giant movies, as the fifth… — Bill Burr Copy Share Image
'Inequality' has become the political theme/slogan of our time in both Europe and the U.S., yet political leaders do not even bother to consider… — Paul Singer Copy Share Image
Well, just that there would be somebody in the office and the voters - it was more or less an understanding in the entire… — Stephen Breyer Copy Share Image
I am excited to partner with Aeropostale for my very own collection. It was a great experience to be able to work with them.… — Bethany Mota Copy Share Image
When I'm working in finite serials, I always think in terms of the entire book rather than the individual episode because, by far, the… — Warren Ellis Copy Share Image
An important finding is that by determining the genome sequences of an entire family, one can identify many DNA sequencing errors and thus greatly… — Leroy Hood Copy Share Image
As a fan of the books, I feel fortunate to be part of 'The Hunger Games' family. It was an amazing experience; I am… — Amandla Stenberg Copy Share Image
By allowing multiple partners to contribute, an open platform can nurture an entire ecosystem of developers and apps. Good products integrate and become great… — Ryan Holmes Copy Share Image
My entire history with the Navy have been trying to get the Navy to focus on families and child care and all the things… — Patricia Schroeder Copy Share Image
Part of the strength that Charlie and I have as a team is we've been able to keep our priorities straight through our entire… — Meryl Davis Copy Share Image
