Top 3 Quotes by Judith Rich Harris

Not being a poet, I prize truth above beauty.

Not being a poet, I prize truth above beauty.

Poet, Prize

The names that do the serious damage are the ones we call ourselves. The stereotypes we give ourselves are the ones that matter in the long run, not the ones imposed on us by other people.

Judith Rich Harris

Running, Names, Long

Judith Rich Harris (1999). “The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do”, p.251, Simon and Schuster

Birth order effects are like those things that you think you see out of the corner of your eye but that disappear when you look at them closely. They do keep turning up but only because people keep looking for them and keep analyzing and reanalyzing their data until they find them.

Judith Rich Harris

Eye, Thinking, Order

Judith Rich Harris (2009). “The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do, Revised and Updated”, p.42, Simon and Schuster