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I've had this tendency ever since I was young, when, given a choice, I much preferred reading books on my own or concentrating on listening to music over being with someone else. I could always think of things to do by myself. #HarukiMurakami

I've had this tendency ever since I was young, when, given a choice, I much preferred reading books on my own or concentrating on listening to music over being with someone else. I could always think of things to do by myself. #HarukiMurakami — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 25, 2025

An ignorant mind is precisely not a spotless, empty vessel, but one that's filled with the clutter of irrelevant or misleading life experiences, theories, facts, intuitions, strategies, algorithms, heuristics, metaphors, and hunches... #StevenNovella

An ignorant mind is precisely not a spotless, empty vessel, but one that's filled with the clutter of irrelevant or misleading life experiences, theories, facts, intuitions, strategies, algorithms, heuristics, metaphors, and hunches... #StevenNovella — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 25, 2025

There is really only one question you ever need to direct at someone to work out whether or not they are a good person, and that is, with deliberate simplicity: Do you think you are a good person? And to this there is only one acceptable answer. [No] #TheSchoolOfLife

There is really only one question you ever need to direct at someone to work out whether or not they are a good person, and that is, with deliberate simplicity: Do you think you are a good person? And to this there is only one acceptable answer. [No] #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 25, 2025

Reflect and remind yourself that an accurate criticism is the most valuable feedback you can receive. #RayDalio

Reflect and remind yourself that an accurate criticism is the most valuable feedback you can receive. #RayDalio — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 25, 2025

On the North American plains in the 1930s, a Kiowa Indian woman commented to a researcher that a woman can always get another husband, but she has only one brother. #StephanieCoontz

On the North American plains in the 1930s, a Kiowa Indian woman commented to a researcher that a woman can always get another husband, but she has only one brother. #StephanieCoontz — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 25, 2025

Science requires courage--the courage to face reality and accept its findings, even if they upset us or are disruptive to our comfortable ideology. #StevenNovella

Science requires courage--the courage to face reality and accept its findings, even if they upset us or are disruptive to our comfortable ideology. #StevenNovella — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 24, 2025

And you must be cautious, because making your life better means adopting a lot of responsibility, and that takes more effort and care than living stupidly in pain and remaining arrogant, deceitful and resentful. #JordanPeterson

And you must be cautious, because making your life better means adopting a lot of responsibility, and that takes more effort and care than living stupidly in pain and remaining arrogant, deceitful and resentful. #JordanPeterson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 24, 2025