4,826 Quotes About Self


  • Author Michael Merzenich
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    The patterns of activity of neurons in sensory areas can be altered by patterns of attention. Experience coupled with attention leads to physical changes in the structure and future functioning of the nervous system. This leaves us with a clear physiological fact…moment by moment we choose and sculpt how our ever-changing minds will work. We choose who we will be in the next moment in a very real sense, and these choices are left embossed in physical form in our material selves.

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  • Author Michael McKean
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    Some people stay in the academic world just to avoid becoming self-aware. You can quote me on that.

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  • Author Michael Moore
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    You do not have the right to take another human's life, unless it's in strict self-defense.

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  • Author Michel de Montaigne
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    Men throw themselves on foreign assistances to spare their own, which, after all, are the only certain and sufficient ones.

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  • Author Michel de Montaigne
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    To say less of yourself than is true is stupidity, not modesty. To pay yourself less than you are worth is cowardice and pusillanimity.

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