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Hank Green Quotes

Total quotes: 67
“No one changes the world alone and no one doesn’t change it at all.”
— Hank Green, Some Rough Advice for the "Real World"
“You don't know something if you simply stumbled into the right answer.”
— Hank Green, The Meaning of Knowledge: Crash Course Philosophy #7
Tagged: Knowledge
“Death has been good enough for everyone who has ever lived... so far.”
— Hank Green, How Much is a Human Life Worth?
Tagged: Life, Death
“Beneath it all, there’s something that works here and that thing, I think, is just respect.”
— Hank Green, The Politics of "Parks and Rec"
“The marvellous truth of it all is that, death is such a gift, because the only reason we can die is that we even live.”
— Hank Green, We're All Gonna Die- A Song
“The future doesn't always resemble the past. And every pattern has its outliers. So induction always has the potential to produce false results.”
— Hank Green, How to Argue- Induction & Abduction: Crash Course Philosophy #3
Tagged: Inductive Reasoning, Predicting The Future
“Education is about learning and about teaching and about knowing, but I think the most important piece of it is inspiring curiosity.”
— Hank Green, Curiosity is the Greatest Human Quality
Tagged: Education
“Don't take other people's love for granted and don't assume that they know how you feel.”
— Hank Green, I Don't Understand My Life
Tagged: Telling Others You Love Them, Feelings, Mottos To live By
“I guess that is like most important things, and also people: we aren't much unless you know our story.”
— Hank Green, ★★★★ Review: The TFiOS Bench- Amsterdam
Tagged: Story, Others
“Life is any system that continuously decreases its own entropy using energy around it.”
— Hank Green, Google Is Alive!
Tagged: Being Alive, Schrödinger
“Going from the darkness into the light is both disorienting and rewarding.”
— Hank Green, Leonardo DiCaprio & The Nature of Reality: Crash Course Philosophy #4
Tagged: Plato, Allegory of the Cave, Knowledge
“There’s one thing that you are making every day, no matter what you’re doing, and that is yourself. That is your job. And you must do it well.”
— Hank Green, Some Rough Advice for the "Real World"
“These tools that we use to help us define ourselves, to help us figure out who we are, they are fine as tools. But they are not walls to box ourselves in with.”
— Hank Green, Who Am I?!- Some thoughts on Personal Identity
“Some days, it seems to me like the purpose of life is to convert energy into beauty and I know that that's not... rationally true; but some days, it's okay for things to not be rationally true.”
— Hank Green, Thoughts from a Butterfly Hatch
Tagged: beauty, Life
“What did one eye say to the other eye? Between you and me, man, something smells.”
— Hank Green, 53 Terrible Jokes!
Tagged: nose, face
“Philosophers spend a lot of time obsessing about knowledge, wishing they knew more, and worrying that they're wrong about what they think they know.”
— Hank Green, Cartesian Skepticism- Neo, Meet Rene: Crash Course Philosophy #5
Tagged: Knowledge, Philosophers
“By forming our language, culture very literally controls our thoughts. We can't think with words that we don't have.”
— Hank Green, Why is The Alphabet In Alphabetical Order? Eight Completely Arbitrary Things
Tagged: Norms
“We only have a concept of self because of our ability to symbolically recall our past and stitch together a story of who we are.”
— Hank Green, The Space Time Continuum: Thoughts from Dublin
Tagged: Identity, Community
“We have to take notice of the amazing creations of our own age and consider what the greatest cultural legacy would be. The answer, of course, being peace and plenty and equality and awesome.”
— Hank Green, Thoughts from Bath: The Legacy of Wealth
Tagged: History, Legacy, Community
“The best of you can hope to have been taught to learn; to yearn for more that you'll still have to earn. 'Cause you're not ending learning, you're ending this one structure.”
— Hank Green, Grab It By The Testicle
Tagged: Adulthood, School
“I'm always keeping my eye out for new and unique ways that superheroes are being created, because i think it's a really clear indicator of what we're becoming obsessed with and what what we're becoming afraid of.”
— Hank Green, Superhero Creation Myths
Tagged: Culture
“As you get older, everything you do is a combination of success and failure. There is no absolute success and failure.”
— Hank Green, Hank Has Questions
Tagged: Success, Failure
“I learned that feeling valued and knowing that you matter is much more about how you think of others than about how others think of you.”
— Hank Green, Thanks, Lemon
“The process is as powerful as the outcome, and the more you know, the more wonderful knowing becomes.”
— Hank Green, Changing Our Business a Bit
“If humans are 7 billion earthquakes on the planet, I want to think less about how big my shake is, more about what my shake does and who I shake it with.”
— Hank Green, My Earthquake Story- (And Thoughts About Numbers)
Tagged: Community, impact
“In many ways, we are never the same physically or psychologically from instant to instant; it's that continuity that makes us, us.”
— Hank Green, The Space Time Continuum: Thoughts from Dublin
Tagged: Identity, Time, History
“Underneath the emotional skin that we create and show to the world, we are all very different. We are differently broken, semi-functional, rusted-out love machines.”
— Hank Green, How to Make Friends
Tagged: Being human, Love Machine
“We basically need every person on Earth to know about these goals because they are achievable and we can do this, but only if people hold their governments accountable, only if we care!”
— Hank Green, Pissed Off for a Better World
Tagged: Progress, Millenium Development Goals
“If you wanna get an accurate picture of the kind of quality people exist, you gotta talk to strangers! Which is not normal advice. Don't get in their cars or anything.”
— Hank Green, Awkward Stranger Conversations
Tagged: Advice on Talking to Strangers
“How often do I make Chemistry jokes? Periodically. I actually told one the other day... There was no reaction.”
— Hank Green, 53 Terrible Jokes!
Tagged: Chemistry Jokes
“Popper says that every false belief we discover is actually good, because that gets us that much closer to only true things.”
— Hank Green, Karl Popper, Science, and Pseudoscience: Crash Course Philosophy #8
Tagged: Beliefs
“What I love about science is that enthusiastic, perpetual drive toward objective truth and understanding.”
— Hank Green, Harry Potter vs. Science!
Tagged: Science, definition
“What I love about Harry Potter is that unironic drive toward objective goodness.”
— Hank Green, Harry Potter vs. Science!
Tagged: Harry Potter, Community
“Maybe it's beautiful that we move on from our successes and immediately fret over the next giant, magnificent problem that we have to overcome.”
— Hank Green, Never Satisfied: The Story of Humans |-/
Tagged: Progress, Contentment
“It has to be a mixed of dissatisfaction with the way that it is, and what could be better, and we have to work for that; and also recognizing that we've done a great deal of remarkable things, as a species and as individuals.”
— Hank Green, Never Satisfied: The Story of Humans |-/
Tagged: Progress, Contentment
“The relationship between people and cats is one of the only relationships with another species that people don’t dominate.”
— Hank Green, Seeing Myself Through a Cat's Eyes
“I have no scientific evidence for this, but sometimes I feel like you can only do so many things you don’t want to do before you just accidentally eat a whole ice cream cake.”
— Hank Green, Doing the Hard(er) Thing (and some very bad news)
“I get to be friends with people I'm fans of. And in one case, I get to be brothers with them, too; which may make me the luckiest fan ever.”
— Hank Green, Loving Loving Things in Los Angeles
“Maybe the best feeling of all feelings, that I’ve ever had, is opening up and letting somebody that you love see all your broken bits. And then they’re like, ‘I don’t mind, those are pretty cool. Here are mine too.’”
— Hank Green, 15 of My Favorite Feelings
Tagged: Love, Feeling
“The only difference between something being vitally important, and not important at all, is whether or not you believe it is.”
— Hank Green, The Myth of Greatness
Tagged: Meaning
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