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"We should expose whatever ends are harmful and whatever ideas are false, and not confuse the two."
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"Knowledge, ideas, and wisdom are the most powerful forces that we can use to improve lives while bringing peace to this beautiful world."
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Personal Development

"Beautiful silence is better than ugly speech."
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Personal Development

"You either waste, spend or invest time. Make your choice wisely."
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"Knowledge is your treasure. How well you spend and invest it will define your wisdom."
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"Knowledge makes you powerful and proud wisdom makes you simple and humble."
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"The beginning of wisdom is understanding that life is full of ongoing learning experiences."
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"The post on her left was occupied by Mr. Erskine of Treadley, an old gentleman of considerable charm and culture, who had fallen, however, into bad habits of silence, having, as he explained once to Lady Agatha, said everything that he had to say before he was thirty."
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"Every crisis is a wisdom crisis. If you have no peace around you then you lack wisdom."
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"Simplicity gives you the power of freedom.Kindness gives you the power of boldness.Humility gives you the power of acceptance."
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Personal Development

"Dr. Paul Ekman is a great guy... studying micro-expressions... gestures... and many other facial expression... body movements...."
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"Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language."
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"Why are empirical questions about how the mind works so weighted down with political and moral and emotional baggage?"
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"As many political writers have pointed out, commitment to political equality is not an empirical claim that people are clones."
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"There has to be innate circuitry that does the learning, that creates the culture, that acquires the culture, and that responds to socialization."
Culture

"My opinions about human nature are shared by many psychologists, linguists, and biologists, not to mention philosophers and scholars going back centuries."
Nature

"By exploring the political and moral colorings of discoveries about what makes us tick, we can have a more honest science and a less fearful intellectual milieu."
Science

"The great appeal of the doctrine that the mind is a blank slate is the simple mathematical fact that zero equals zero."
Doctrine

"The Rights Revolutions too have given us ideals that educated people today take for granted but that are virtually unprecedented in human history, such as that people of all races and creeds have equal rights, that women should be free from all forms of coercion, that children should never, ever be spanked, that students should be protected from bullying, and that there's nothing wrong with being gay. I don't find it at all implausible that these are gifts, in part, of a refined and widening application of reason."
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"One of my favourite kinds of movie is the American picaresque, in which the characters make their way across the country, learning about life against the gorgeous backdrops of that vast land."
Education

"Once we have isolated the computational and neurological correlates of access-consciousness, there is nothing left to explain. It's just irrational to insist that sentience remains unexplained after all the manifestations of sentience have been accounted for, just because the computations don't have anything sentient in them. It's like insisting that wetness remains unexplained even after all the manifestations of wetness have been accounted for, because moving molecules aren't wet."
Science
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