Famous Jonathan Haidt Quotes

  • Cultural change works orders of magnitude faster then genetic change. Stephen Jay Gould – Jonathan Haidt

    Cultural change works orders of magnitude faster then genetic change. Stephen Jay Gould– Jonathan Haidt

  • Focusing on effective leadership without focusing on a willingness to follow is like studying clapping by studying only the left hand. – Jonathan Haidt

    Focusing on effective leadership without focusing on a willingness to follow is like studying clapping by studying only the left hand.– Jonathan Haidt

  • Reasoning can take you wherever you want to go. – Jonathan Haidt

    Reasoning can take you wherever you want to go.– Jonathan Haidt

  • When opponents of evolution object that human beings are not mere apes, they are correct. We are also part bee. – Jonathan Haidt

    When opponents of evolution object that human beings are not mere apes, they are correct. We are also part bee.– Jonathan Haidt

  • Creating gods who can see everything, and who hate cheaters and oath breakers, turns out to be a good way to reduce cheating and oath breaking. – Jonathan Haidt

    Creating gods who can see everything, and who hate cheaters and oath breakers, turns out to be a good way to reduce cheating and oath breaking.– Jonathan Haidt

  • Sacredness binds people together, and then blinds them to the arbitrariness of the practice. – Jonathan Haidt

    Sacredness binds people together, and then blinds them to the arbitrariness of the practice.– Jonathan Haidt

  • The mind is divided, like a rider on an elephant, and the rider’s job is to serve the elephant. – Jonathan Haidt

    The mind is divided, like a rider on an elephant, and the rider’s job is to serve the elephant.– Jonathan Haidt

  • Intuitions come first, strategic reasoning second. – Jonathan Haidt

    Intuitions come first, strategic reasoning second.– Jonathan Haidt

  • Groups create supernatural beings not to explain the universe but to order their societies. – Jonathan Haidt

    Groups create supernatural beings not to explain the universe but to order their societies.– Jonathan Haidt

  • Shallow are the souls that have forgotten how to shudder. Leon Cass – Jonathan Haidt

    Shallow are the souls that have forgotten how to shudder. Leon Cass– Jonathan Haidt