The mind is divided, like a rider on an elephant, and the rider's job is to serve the elephant. The rider is our conscious reasoning-the stream of words and images of which we are fully aware. The elephant is the other 99 percent of mental processes-the ones that occur outside of awareness but that actually govern most of our behavior.

The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion (ed. Penguin UK, 2012) - ISBN: 9781846145711