Sam Harris Quotes

A person's current personality of love, hatred, jealousy, rage or a murderous intent and so on is formed upon genetic elements, education, the environment and a family a person grows in.

Both depression and anxiety disorders, for example, are repeatedly described in the media as 'chemical imbalances in the brain,' as if spontaneous neural events with no relation to anything outside a person's brain cause depression and anxiety.

Conditions impact the behaviour of people.

I feel like there is just as much violent programming in other countries and there is not the same incidence of factors. I think there are other factors contributing to violence in this country and not the media.

The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public.

But if somebody dies, if something happens to you, there is a normal process of depression, it is part of being human, and some people view it as a learning experience etc.

The biology of mind bridges the sciences - concerned with the natural world - and the humanities - concerned with the meaning of human experience.

The only problem with seeing too much is that it makes you insane.

When I look at the human brain I'm still in awe of it.

Our minds influence the key activity of the brain, which then influences everything; perception, cognition, thoughts and feelings, personal relationships; they're all a projection of you.

The human brain is probably one of the most complex single objects on the face of the earth; I think it is, quite honestly.

The brain is not a bag of traits. It's startlingly complex. There are few or no single genes with a consistent effect on the mind.

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

Life is a series of sensations connected to different states of consciousness.

Experiences shape the brain, but the brain shapes the way we view experiences, too.

The existence of inherent limits of experience in no way settles the question about the subordination of facts of the human world to our knowledge of matter.

The genetic you and the neural you aren't alternatives to the conscious you. They are its foundations.

It's worth knowing more about the complicated environmental and genetic factors that could explain why traumatic brain injuries lead to long-term disabilities in some people and not in others.

When you have a traumatic experience, you look at your mindset.

Nobody knows 100% what affects the human body, mind or spirit.

Children certainly can't learn if they're dealing with trauma or mental illness.

I don't think income solely determines health. I think lots of other things determine health.

The brain is so intricate. It can do so many things, and people sleep on it. It's not just a piece of meat in there - it can do so much.

Reading or written language is a cultural invention that necessitated totally new connections among structures in the human brain underlying language, perception, cognition, and, over time, our emotions.

Our behavior is a function of our experience. We act according to the way we see things. If our experience is destroyed, our behavior will be destructive. If our experience is destroyed, we have lost our own selves.