self-discovery Quotes

We must be our own before we can be another's.

I think that I've had a very strange life.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

Academics lack perspective. In a debate on whether the world is round, they would argue, 'No,' because it's an oblate spheroid. They suffer from 'the curse of knowledge': the inability to imagine what it's like not to know something that they know.

One of the perks of being a psychologist is access to tools that allow you to carry out the injunction to know thyself.

When time permits, I try to see interesting people in the cities I visit. In Seattle, I met Paul Allen, the co-founder of Microsoft, who is shy in personality but flamboyant in his philanthropy.

I never outgrew my conversion to atheism at 13, but at various times was a serious cultural Jew.

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

I would argue that nothing gives life more purpose than the realization that every moment of consciousness is a precious and fragile gift.

It is not length of life, but depth of life.