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Top 10 Tim Urban Quotes (2025 Update)

Tim Urban Quote: “I think generally people’s thinking process is too bound by convention or analogy to prior experiences. It’s rare that people try to think of something on a first principles basis. They’ll say, “We’ll do that because it’s always been done that way.” Or they’ll not do it because “Well, nobody’s ever done that, so it must not be good.” But that’s just a ridiculous way to think. You have to build up the reasoning from the ground up – “from the first principles.”

1. “I think generally people’s thinking process is too bound by convention or analogy to prior experiences. It’s rare that people try to think of something on a first principles basis. They’ll say, “We’ll do that because it’s always been done that way.” Or they’ll not do it because “Well, nobody’s ever done that, so it must not be good.” But that’s just a ridiculous way to think. You have to build up the reasoning from the ground up – “from the first principles.”

Tim Urban Quote: “Your right to swing your arms ends just where another person’s nose begins.”

2. “Your right to swing your arms ends just where another person’s nose begins.”

Tim Urban Quote: “When you’re thinking like a Scientist – self-aware, free of bias, unattached to any particular ideas, motivated entirely by truth and continually willing to revise your beliefs – your brain is a hyper-efficient learning machine.”

3. “When you’re thinking like a Scientist – self-aware, free of bias, unattached to any particular ideas, motivated entirely by truth and continually willing to revise your beliefs – your brain is a hyper-efficient learning machine.”

Tim Urban Quote: “Humility is by definition a starting point – and it sends you off on a journey from there. The arrogance of certainty is both a starting point and an ending point – no journeys needed.”

4. “Humility is by definition a starting point – and it sends you off on a journey from there. The arrogance of certainty is both a starting point and an ending point – no journeys needed.”

Tim Urban Quote: “Instead of a blank canvas, school hands kids a coloring book and tells them to stay within the lines.4 What.”

5. “Instead of a blank canvas, school hands kids a coloring book and tells them to stay within the lines.4 What.”

Tim Urban Quote: “Chasing happiness is an amateur move. Feeling contentment in those times when your choices and your circumstances have combined to pull it off, and knowing you have all that you could ever ask for, is for the wise.”

6. “Chasing happiness is an amateur move. Feeling contentment in those times when your choices and your circumstances have combined to pull it off, and knowing you have all that you could ever ask for, is for the wise.”

Tim Urban Quote: “The powerful social incentives of Echo Chamber culture keep everyone in line. The culture rewards the continual expression of narrative-confirming sentiment, and brands ideas that threaten the guiding narrative as taboo.”

7. “The powerful social incentives of Echo Chamber culture keep everyone in line. The culture rewards the continual expression of narrative-confirming sentiment, and brands ideas that threaten the guiding narrative as taboo.”

Tim Urban Quote: “The unpleasant feeling of existential confusion and intellectual insecurity is the gateway drug to real intellectual growth – but when you haven’t had the complete epiphany, it doesn’t feel that way.”

8. “The unpleasant feeling of existential confusion and intellectual insecurity is the gateway drug to real intellectual growth – but when you haven’t had the complete epiphany, it doesn’t feel that way.”

Tim Urban Quote: “The news and online media portraying a society where everyone hates each other is dangerous because it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.”

9. “The news and online media portraying a society where everyone hates each other is dangerous because it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.”

Tim Urban Quote: “Genes can’t talk to their animals, so they control them by having them run on specialized survival software I call the Primitive Mind:.”

10. “Genes can’t talk to their animals, so they control them by having them run on specialized survival software I call the Primitive Mind:.”

Tim Urban Quote: “Separate realities are a natural consequence of market incentives moving from the North Star region closer to the lower corners of the Media Matrix, where there’s almost no overlap in coverage between the two sides. It makes sense that those most hooked on political media would be the most delusional, the same way consumers of political news in dog-raccoon-ville left the pro-dog and pro-raccoon crowds with totally different perceptions of reality.”

11. “Separate realities are a natural consequence of market incentives moving from the North Star region closer to the lower corners of the Media Matrix, where there’s almost no overlap in coverage between the two sides. It makes sense that those most hooked on political media would be the most delusional, the same way consumers of political news in dog-raccoon-ville left the pro-dog and pro-raccoon crowds with totally different perceptions of reality.”

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