410 Quotations Found

If I hold biases against you, that harms you, absolutely, but it also harms me, and I think this is something that we don’t talk about enough. If I’m biased toward you, this is preventing me from seeing the world clearly. It’s preventing me from really understanding what’s happening. It’s preventing trust between us. It’s preventing us from having a meaningful connection across whatever differences … [ Read more ]

Author: Jessica Nordell | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Facts | Bias, Life & Society, Personal Improvement, Psychology | Behavior, Relationships

Language is always a matter of intention. No two people could have less in common than when they are saying the same thing, one sincerely and one with snark.

Author: Molly Young | Source: Vulture | Subjects: Communication, Education | Scholarship, Language

A large part of wisdom is knowing what to ignore. A large part of expertise is knowing where to place your attention.

Author: Shane Parrish | Source: Farnam Street | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Life & Society, Personal Improvement, Productivity & Time Management, Success / Failure, Wisdom

The source of problems is blindspots. There is something hidden from us that, if we knew, would change how we thought and acted. One of the best ways to reveal blindspots is simply to lengthen your time horizon. A lot of good advice simply boils down to thinking longer term.

Author: Shane Parrish | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Life & Society, Personal Improvement, Psychology | Behavior, Thought | Inquiry

Conspiracy theories have always been useful to extremist movements [because they] work on a very us-versus-them logic. They posit an in-group of people who is among a small, privileged set to know this information, and an out group which is either willfully blind or actively plotting against them. And that structure has been very useful over time to weaponize against marginalized groups that people want … [ Read more ]

Author: Kelly Weill | Source: The Messenger | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Politics & Public Policy, Psychology | Behavior, Thought | Inquiry

Conspiracy movements… all rely on discarding a certain trust in institutions and establishing new voices as credible.

Author: Kelly Weill | Source: The Messenger | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Psychology | Behavior, Thought | Inquiry

Statistics often tell us more about collection procedures than they do about the phenomenon they are supposed to reflect.

Author: Andrew Hopkins | Source: The Atlantic | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Facts | Bias, Math & Science

Mastery is the best goal because the rich can’t buy it, the impatient can’t rush it, the privileged can’t inherit it, and nobody can steal it. You can only earn it through hard work. Mastery is the ultimate status.

Author: Derek Sivers | Source: Farnam Street | Subjects: Career, Education | Scholarship, Life & Society, Personal Improvement, Success / Failure

We become what we consume. What you read today becomes the raw material of your thoughts tomorrow. High-quality inputs offer high-quality raw materials to assemble in the future. A person with an environment with rich sources of information makes better choices than someone consuming low-quality sources of information. Not only do they have better raw material, but they also have a broader perspective and a … [ Read more ]

Author: Shane Parrish | Source: Farnam Street | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Health & Medicine, Learning, Life & Society, Personal Improvement

The nature of illusion is that it’s designed to make you feel good. About yourself, about your country, about where you’re going – in that sense it functions like a drug. Those who question that illusion are challenged not so much for the veracity of what they say, but for puncturing those feelings.

Author: Chris Hedges | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Life & Society, Personal Improvement, Politics & Public Policy, Psychology | Behavior, Thought | Inquiry

Always remember that to argue, and win, is to break down the reality of the person you are arguing against. It is painful to lose your reality, so be kind, even if you are right.

Author: Haruki Murakami | Subjects: Communication, Education | Scholarship, Life & Society, Relationships, Thought | Inquiry

You don’t need to be an expert to think that experts are right, but you do need to be an expert to think that they are wrong.

Author: Fallacy Man | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Intelligence | Knowledge, Personal Improvement, Thought | Inquiry

You can’t replace reading with other sources of information like videos, because you need to read in order to write well, and you need to write in order to think well.

Author: Paul Graham | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Reading | Writing, Thought | Inquiry

I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time – when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost … [ Read more ]

Author: Carl Sagan | Source: Goodreads | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Life & Society, Math & Science, Politics & Public Policy

Sometimes amateurs believe they are professionals, but professionals never believe they are amateurs.

Author: Shane Parrish | Source: Farnam Street | Subjects: Career, Education | Scholarship, Personal Improvement

The public has a distorted view of science because children are taught in school that science is a collection of firmly established truths. In fact, science is not a collection of truths. It is a continuing exploration of mysteries.

Author: Freeman Dyson | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Math & Science

Humility isn’t a lack of confidence but an earned confidence. The confidence to say that you might not be right, but you’ve done the diligence, and you’ve put in the work. Humility keeps you wondering what you’re missing or if someone is working harder than you. And yet when pride and arrogance take over, humility flees and so does our ability to learn, adapt, and … [ Read more ]

Author: Shane Parrish | Source: Farnam Street | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Intelligence | Knowledge, Learning, Personal Improvement, Psychology | Behavior

The nature of illusion is that it’s designed to make you feel good. About yourself, about your country, about where you’re going – in that sense it functions like a drug. Those who question that illusion are challenged not so much for the veracity of what they say, but for puncturing those feelings.

Author: Chris Hedges | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Life & Society, Psychology | Behavior, Thought | Inquiry

There is no better teacher than history in determining the future. There are answers worth billions of dollars in a $30 history book.

Author: Charlie Munger | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, History

[Paul O’Keefe] and two co-authors—[Carol] Dweck and Greg Walton of Stanford—recently performed a study that suggests it might be time to change the way we think about our interests. Passions aren’t “found,” they argue. They’re developed.

Author: Olga Khazan | Source: The Atlantic | Subjects: Career, Education | Scholarship, Life & Society, Personal Improvement