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If you're a soldier or marine in an Arab country, Islam is the solution. And you need to show respect. — David Brooks

Students are taught how to do things, but many are not forced to reflect on why they should do them or what we are here for. — David Brooks

Pride deludes us into thinking that we are the authors of our own lives. — David Brooks

I learned I'm not a science writer. I'm not very good at describing how something is happening. I try to describe "So What?" — David Brooks

It's a completely irrational decision to drop out of school. — David Brooks

Some sins, such as anger and lust, are like wild beasts. They have to be fought through habits of restraint. — David Brooks

When you're running for president you have to take some risks and you've got to show people something fresh and you've got to stay interesting. — David Brooks

Human beings are primarily defined by what we desire, not what we know. — David Brooks

Alice had to be small to enter Wonderland. — David Brooks

Memo to young journalists: Democratic victories are always ascribed to hope; Republican ones to rage. — David Brooks

We're not bad. But we are morally inarticulate. — David Brooks

It's only useful to ask, what wisdom have you learned from your misjudgments that will help you going forward? — David Brooks

You can't counter a heroic impulse with a mundane and bourgeois response. You can counter it only with a more compelling heroic vision. — David Brooks

Most of us can only deny short-term pleasures because we see a realistic path between self-denial now and something better down the road. — David Brooks

Fundamentalism is still on the march. — David Brooks

I hope that in victory we are more grateful than proud. — David Brooks

We have the choice to choose how we're going to educate our emotions. — David Brooks

The inner struggle against one's own weaknesses is the central drama of life. — David Brooks

A person who is interrupted while performing a task takes 50% more time to complete it and make 50% more errors. — David Brooks

I don't know if I'm sexist, though I have not paid much attention to the women's bracket. — David Brooks

The imagination offers up ideal visions of experiences which then leave us disappointed when the visions don't come true. — David Brooks

The world is immeasurably complex and the private stock of reason is small. — David Brooks

I'm not the most emotionally attuned guy in the world. My wife says that me writing about emotion is like Gandhi writing about gluttony. — David Brooks

If it feels all right for you, it's probably OK. — David Brooks

The cognitive sciences have replaced literature as the way many people attempt to understand their own minds. — David Brooks

I do think British and American politics rhyme. They go in cycles. They go in Thatcher-Reagan cycles, Blair-Clinton cycles. — David Brooks

Humanities are the instructors of enchantment. — David Brooks

It's not that Egypt doesn't have a recipe for a democratic transition. It seems to lack even the basic mental ingredients. — David Brooks

Sin is also a necessary piece of our mental furniture because sin is communal, while error is individual. — David Brooks

People tend to marry people with similar-width noses, eyes similarly apart, with complementary immune systems. — David Brooks

Almost every successful person begins with two beliefs: the future can be better than the present, and I have the power to make it so. — David Brooks

How do you teach a classroom of Sybils who are breaking apart and reforming right in front of you? — David Brooks

People want reality that tells them how right they are all the time. — David Brooks

As Paul Tillich put it, suffering introduces you to yourself and reminds you that you are not the person you thought you were. — David Brooks

If you grow up in a home where actions don't lead to predictable consequences, you don't develop strategies to control your impulses. — David Brooks

Trash talk ... Washington floats on a river of aspersion. — David Brooks

People want a reality that tells them they're right all of the time. — David Brooks

The only way to reduce ugliness in the world is to reduce it in yourself, — David Brooks

When your institution is under assault, you're feeling like the weight is on it and the history might be flowing away, don't turn inward, go outward. — David Brooks

Recovering from suffering is not like recovering from a disease. Many people don't come out healed; they come out different. — David Brooks

You are the spiritual entity that emerges out of the material networks in your head. — David Brooks

I was really fortunate that I went to a high school where we actually had a film theory program. — David Brooks

In the evenings she got on her knees and inflicted her piety on her sister: — David Brooks

The people who really have character make deep, unshakable connections to something outside themselves. — David Brooks

The technology's going to change, but what people want to read is going to be basically the same. — David Brooks

The rich don't exploit the poor. They just out-compete them. — David Brooks

I'm thankful that we live in a crassly commercial, polarized culture, so media jackals like me have a lot of work to do. — David Brooks

aridity of her own marriage at that point or her profound — David Brooks

Moderation is not just finding the midpoint between two opposing poles and opportunistically planting yourself there. — David Brooks

The effectiveness of a group of people is not determined by their IQ but by how well they communicate. — David Brooks

He read vividly. — David Brooks

I'm not a kicker and a screamer. — David Brooks

People tend to want to live up to their friends' high regard. — David Brooks

David Brooks's The Social Animal. I recommend chapters 3 through 9, which give a far richer account than what I think about the subject. — Mark M. Weber

Humility is the awareness that there's a lot you don't know and that a lot of what you think you know is distorted or wrong. — David Brooks

It is especially painful when narcissists suffer memory loss because they are losing parts of the person they love most. — David Brooks

If you think you can organize your own salvation you are magnifying the very sin that keeps you from it. — David Brooks

As a director, I like trying to unlock the subtext of the scene and try to put the camera in a place that helps that. — David Brooks

She was just too curious to stay in a self-imposed mental straight-jacket for very long. — David Brooks

Since 2005, a majority of Americans, according to the Gallup poll, have said it was wrong and a mistake to go into Iraq. — David Brooks

Joy is a byproduct experienced by people who are aiming for something else. But it comes. — David Brooks

People generally overestimate how distinct their lives are, so the commonalities seemed to them like a series of miracles. — David Brooks

It's impossible for one person to think of everything. — David Brooks

If you know that most processing is below the level of awareness, you learn the value of sleep. You're brain is working on the problem anyway. — David Brooks

Marital happiness is far more important than anything else in determining personal well-being. — David Brooks

David ran through concrete advantages. And then set aside the practical. The pragmatist was gone, replaced by the poet and mystic. — Geraldine Brooks

tried to raise money for him, to enhance — David Brooks

The prevailing view is that geniuses are largely built, not born. — David Brooks

We really do have dappled souls. — David Brooks

Samuel Johnson placed this on his watch as a reminder near the end of his life; The night cometh. — David Brooks

Today, the word "sin" has lost its power — David Brooks

Agency is not automatic. It has to be given birth to, with pushing and effort. — David Brooks

Our emotions tell us what to value. They're like a little GPS system: Go that way. Don't go that way. — David Brooks

If they would put love of truth above love of career. — David Brooks

Learning was a by-product of her search for pleasure — David Brooks

I wasn't born with a tie or with Mark Shields stapled to my left hip. I have another life. — David Brooks

We are a democratic, egalitarian people who spend our days desperately trying to climb over each other. — David Brooks

David set me to learn other skills, too, in those days of restless waiting. — Geraldine Brooks

Trying to mold one's life around the heroic and deep souls one found in books. Day read as if her whole life depended upon it. — David Brooks

We are primarily the products of thinking that happens below the level of awareness. — David Brooks

What family you were born into matters so much more than it did before in a perverse way. — David Brooks

Always take your job seriously, never yourself. — David Brooks

Palin is smart, politically skilled, courageous and likable. Her convention and debate performances were impressive. — David Brooks

I want to make big films. That's always been my ambition. — David Brooks

The parental relationship sits outside the
the logic of meritocracy and is the closest humans come to grace. — David Brooks

The priest Zadok looked stricken. He had hoped to bargain information for a higher price. Now I, as a prophet, had given it to David for free. — Geraldine Brooks

Civility is the natural state for people who know how limited their own individual powers are and know, too, that they need the conversation. — David Brooks

The brain writes the autobiography of our species at the conscious level. — David Brooks

Every virtue can come with its own accompanying vice. The virtue of reticence can yield the vice of aloofness. — David Brooks

The more people doubt their own beliefs the more, paradoxically, they are inclined to proselytize in favor of them. — David Brooks

Friendship allows you to see your own life but with a second sympathetic self. — David Brooks

Jim Stavridis is the former NATO commander who is sometimes on people's lists, also very plausible, self-possessed, someone with sobriety. — David Brooks

I don't think history will ever be a science because history will never be reduced to law-like behavior. People are to unpredictable. — David Brooks

Her genius derives from the fact that she was capable of the deepest feeling but also of the most discerning and disciplined thought. — David Brooks

(A middle-class child's) parents didn't just give him money. They passed down habits, knowledge, and cognitive traits. — David Brooks

Most people don't form a self and then lead a life. They are called by a problem, and the self is constructed gradually by their calling. — David Brooks

Pride blinds us to the reality of our divided nature. — David Brooks

Education makes a straight ditch of a free meandering brook. — Henry David Thoreau

I make honorable things pleasant to children. A teacher from Sparta — David Brooks

Harrison had turned social awkwardness into a form of social power. — David Brooks