Famous David Brooks Quotes

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

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

  • College is about exposing students to many things and creating an aphrodisiac atmosphere so that they might fall in lifelong love with a few. – David Brooks

    College is about exposing students to many things and creating an aphrodisiac atmosphere so that they might fall in lifelong love with a few.– 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

    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

  • Freedom without structure is its own slavery. – David Brooks

    Freedom without structure is its own slavery.– David Brooks

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

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

  • Friends usually bring out better versions of each other. People feel unguarded and fluid with their close friends. – David Brooks

    Friends usually bring out better versions of each other. People feel unguarded and fluid with their close friends.– David Brooks

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

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

  • The struggle against the weakness in yourself is never a solitary struggle. No person can achieve self-mastery or his or her own. – David Brooks

    The struggle against the weakness in yourself is never a solitary struggle. No person can achieve self-mastery or his or her own.– David Brooks

  • Online life is so delicious because it is socializing with almost no friction. – David Brooks

    Online life is so delicious because it is socializing with almost no friction.– 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

    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