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For the love of gain would reconcile the weaker to the dominion of the stronger, and the possession of capital enabled the more powerful to reduce the smaller towns to subjection. #Thucydides

For the love of gain would reconcile the weaker to the dominion of the stronger, and the possession of capital enabled the more powerful to reduce the smaller towns to subjection. #Thucydides — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 26, 2026

Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people. #NicholasDKristof

Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people. #NicholasDKristof — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 24, 2026

Marginalization is a fundamental trauma. This is why I believe that a truly trauma-informed system is an anti-racist system. The destructive effects of racial marginalizing are pervasive and severe. #BruceDPerry

Marginalization is a fundamental trauma. This is why I believe that a truly trauma-informed system is an anti-racist system. The destructive effects of racial marginalizing are pervasive and severe. #BruceDPerry — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 22, 2026

Humility is the awareness that there's a lot you don't know and that a lot of what you think you know is distorted or wrong. #DavidBrooks

Humility is the awareness that there's a lot you don't know and that a lot of what you think you know is distorted or wrong. #DavidBrooks — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 22, 2026

For every dollar and every minute we invest in improving artificial intelligence, it would be wise to invest a dollar and a minute in advancing human consciousness. #YuvalNoahHarari

For every dollar and every minute we invest in improving artificial intelligence, it would be wise to invest a dollar and a minute in advancing human consciousness. #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 21, 2026

Lives can be meaningful even when they involve a lot of failure and humiliation. #TheSchoolOfLife

Lives can be meaningful even when they involve a lot of failure and humiliation. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 20, 2026

There is not much to be got anywhere in the world. It is filled with misery and pain; if a man escapes these, boredeom lies in wait for him at every corner. Nay more; it is evil which generally has the upper hand, and folly that makes the most noise. Fate is cruel #Schopenhauer

There is not much to be got anywhere in the world. It is filled with misery and pain; if a man escapes these, boredeom lies in wait for him at every corner. Nay more; it is evil which generally has the upper hand, and folly that makes the most noise. Fate is cruel #Schopenhauer — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 19, 2026