Shweder Quotes

#1. When you realize that suffering and discomfort are the call to inquiry, you may actually begin to look forward to uncomfortable feelings. You may even experience them as friends coming to show you what you have not yet investigated thoroughly enough.

Byron Katie

#2. No, I have something else between my legs.

Novak Djokovic

#3. For prying into any human affairs, none are equal to those whom it does not concern.

Victor Hugo

#4. The genius of culture is to create an ontological system so compelling that what is inside and outside of a person are viewed as of a piece, no seams and patches noticeable.

Richard Shweder

#5. The knowable world is incomplete if seen from any one point of view, incoherent if seen from all points of view at once, and empty if seen from nowhere in particular.

Richard Shweder

#6. Laws, however divine in origin and institution, would be found of little coercion among men, were the administration of them not committed to mortals.

Norm MacDonald

#7. I've served on five different juries, and many of them were bonkers in their own way.

Simon Hoggart

#8. We must accept the reality that the causes of impatience travel a two-way street.

Allan Lokos

#9. All must respect those who respect themselves.

Benjamin Disraeli

#10. A quaint conceit, don't you think?

Mercedes Lackey