With all foreign travel, you learn as much about where you're from as what you're visiting.

Jonathan Haidt
Some Similar Quotes
  1. There are no facts, only interpretations. - Friedrich Nietzsche

  2. My story is of such marvel that if it were written with a needle on the corner of an eye, it would yet serve as a lesson to those who seek wisdom. - Anonymous

  3. There are 1, 198, 500, 000 people alive now in China. To get a feel for what that means, simply take yourself - in all your singularity, importance, complexity, and love - and multiply by 1, 198, 500, 000. See? Nothing to it. - Annie Dillard

  4. I really tried, or so I thought, to avoid lying, but it seemed to me that they forced it on me by the difference in their vision of things, so that I was always transposing reality for them into something they could understand. - Mary McCarthy

  5. When you tell the tale of how another person is from your perspective, you're making him or her into a character, a player in your own life story. This way of knowing does not bring you closer because it is really all about you. - Kira Asatryan

More Quotes By Jonathan Haidt
  1. The rider evolved to serve to the elephant.

  2. The president is the high priest of what sociologist Robert Bellah calls the 'American civil religion.' The president must invoke the name of God (though not Jesus), glorify America's heroes and history, quote its sacred texts (the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution), and perform...

  3. Religiosity developed because successful religions made groups more efficient at turning resources into offspring." (including art, cathedrals, cities, earthworks, etc?)

  4. The most powerful force ever known on this planet is human cooperation – a force for construction and destruction.

  5. Anyone who values truth should stop worshipping reason.

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