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Yuval Noah Harari Quotes

Biography: Yuval Noah Harari is known for his bestselling books "Sapiens," "Homo ... more Biography: Yuval Noah Harari is known for his bestselling books "Sapiens," "Homo Deus," and "21 Lessons for the 21st Century." A historian and professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Harari's work spans topics from human evolution and the future of humanity to artificial intelligence and the challenges of modern society. less

"We control the world basically because we can cooperate better than any other animal"

Tags: Leadership, Teamwork, Evolution, Survival, Power dynamics

"Fiction isn’t bad. It is vital. Without commonly accepted stories about things like money, states or corporations, no complex human society can function"

Tags: Society, Human behavior, Storytelling, Money, Economics

"Science is not just about studying the world. It’s about changing it"

Tags: Innovation, Change, Knowledge, Transformation, Progress

"History is something that very few people have been doing while everyone else was ploughing fields and carrying water buckets"

Tags: Society, History, Historical perspective, Everyday life, Agriculture

"If you want power, at some point you will have to convince some humans to trust you"

Tags: Relationships, Leadership, Communication, Trust, Influence

"Clarity is power."

Tags: Motivation, Inspiration, Self-improvement, Success, Mindset

"The greatest crimes in modern history resulted not just from hatred and greed, but even more so from ignorance and indifference"

Tags: Compassion, Social justice, Human rights, Ignorance, Indifference

"There is no way out of the imagined order. When we break down our prison walls and run towards freedom, we are in fact running into the more spacious exercise yard of a bigger prison"

Tags: Perception, Freedom, Society, Control, Illusion

"Religion can bring stability and order to a country, but it can also drive them into explosive conflict"

Tags: Society, Influence, Peace, Religion, Conflict

"Money is the most universal and most efficient system of mutual trust ever devised"

Tags: Trust, Money, Economics, Finance, Universal

"You can never convince a monkey to give you a banana by promising him limitless bananas after death in monkey heaven"

Tags: Philosophy, Human nature, Psychology, Rationality, Afterlife

"Questions you cannot answer are usually far better for you than answers you cannot question"

Tags: Philosophy, Self-improvement, Critical thinking, Growth mindset, Curiosity

"How do you cause people to believe in an imagined order such as Christianity, democracy or capitalism? First, you never admit that the order is imagined"

Tags: Influence, Christianity, Democracy, Persuasion, Capitalism

"Ever since the Cognitive Revolution, sapiens have thus been living in a dual reality. On the one hand, the objective reality of rivers, trees, and lions; and on the other hand, the imagined reality of gods, nations, and corporations."

Tags: Myth, Human evolution, Social constructs, Cognitive revolution

"The human capacity for cooperation has been the key to our success."

Tags: Success, Humanity, Unity, Community, Teamwork

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