Tabula Rasa Quotes

• Perhaps, some day, humanity can start afresh, a new world, a tabula rasa, a world with a mind without prior experiences. No memories and no pain. A day when the ones with abundance do not look down at the poor and the needy, a day when we learn to care for the victims, the fallen souls of civilization and advancement, a day when the world will be pure. When all of humanity becomes a clean sheet of parchment, without knowledge and prejudice, simple, hungry for knowing, tasting, and feeling; hungry for life and ready to absorb the ink of experience.

  Henry Martyn

  Pain, Memories, Simple

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• Freud said that we are born as a tabula rasa. This is a model that simply is too superficial and inadequate.

  Stanislav Grof

  Superficial, Born, Said

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• I have a theory in life that there is no learning. There is no learning curve. Everything is tabula rasa. Everybody has to discover things for themselves.

  Seymour Hersh

  Curves, Theory, Learning Curve

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• What we need,' Henry says, 'is a fresh start. A blank slate. Let's call her Tabula Rasa.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Needs, Fresh Start, Blank

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.378, Simon and Schuster

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• The idea that man is a tabula rasa, or Mao's sheet of blank paper upon which the most beautiful characters can be written, is an old one with disastrous implications. I do not think though that the cults you mention could survive honest thought about human nature.

  Theodore Dalrymple

  Beautiful, Character, Men

  "State of Humbug". Interview with Bernand Chapin, spectator.org. January 25, 2008.

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• If the clinician, as observer, wishes to see things as they really are, he must make a tabula rasa of his mind and proceed without any preconceived notions whatever.

  Jean-Martin Charcot

  Mind, Wish, Notion

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• The Midwest is such a tabula rasa.

  Richard Powers

  Midwest

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• The planet Mars -- crimson and bright, filling our telescopes with vague intimations of almost-familiar landforms -- has long formed a celestial tabula rasa on which we have inscribed our planeto-logical theories, utopian fantasies, and fears of alien invasion or ecological ruin.

  David Grinspoon

  Long, Mars, Invasion

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