English Quotes

"Cultural irrationality is deeply entrenched in the lives of all of us, and because of culturally imposed blinders, our view of the world does not normally transcend the limits imposed by our culture. We are in effect stuck with the program culture imposes." Edward T. Hall — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 1, 2022

"Be like the calm ocean, which is inclusive of all rivers and seas, and that's why it becomes the ocean." Unknown — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 31, 2022

"In an ideal world, we'd all transform ourselves into experts and make judgements based on extensive knowledge. Given that this will never happen, our next best option is to emulate the wisdom of Socrates: We become wiser when we acknowledge our ignorance." Joshua Greene — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 30, 2022

"One test of whether you are a free person is whether you can change your mind." Timothy Snyder — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 29, 2022

"Every time you confront something painful, you are at a potentially important juncture in your life--you have the opportunity to choose healthy and painful truth or unhealthy but comfortable delusion." Ray Dalio — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 28, 2022

"In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." Eric Hoffer — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 27, 2022

"I prefer to believe the worst (of everybody). It saves useless expenditure of sympathy." Rudyard Kipling — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 26, 2022

"It's easy to find reasons for division between people. Finding common ground is harder, but a step towards happiness." Unknown — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 26, 2022

"If one's different, one's bound to be lonely." Aldous Huxley — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 25, 2022

"I learned that if you work hard and creatively, you can have just about anything you want, but not everything you want. Maturity is the ability to reject good alternatives in order to pursue even better ones." Ray Dalio — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 24, 2022

"It was not sheer hypocrisy when the rank-and-file Nazis declared themselves not guilty of all the enormities they had committed. They considered themselves cheated and maligned... Had they not joined the Nazi movement in order to be free from responsibility?" Eric Hoffer — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 23, 2022

"Our culture made a virtue of living only as extroverts. We discouraged the inner journey, the quest for a center. So we lost our center and have to find it again." Anais Nin — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 22, 2022

"To beautify life is to give it an object." Jose Marti — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 21, 2022

"Education is the best provision for old age." Aristotle — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 20, 2022

"Observe it, the vulgar often laugh, but never smile, whereas well-bred people often smile, and seldom or never laugh. A witty thing never excited laughter, it pleases only the mind and never distorts the countenance." Lord Chesterfield — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 19, 2022

"If you're not failing, you're not pushing your limits, and if you're not pushing your limits, you're not maximizing your potential." Ray Dalio — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 19, 2022

"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere." Albert Einstein — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 18, 2022

"We learn history not in order to know how to behave or how to succeed, but to know who we are." Leszek Kolakowski — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 17, 2022

"The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude." Aldous Huxley — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 16, 2022

"Whoever has tasted the breath of morning knows that the most invigorating and most delightful hours of the day are commonly spent in bed; though it is the evident intention of nature that we should enjoy and profit by them." Robert Southey — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 15, 2022

"Don't hurry, don't worry. You're only here for a short visit. So be sure to stop and smell the flowers." Walter Hagen — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 14, 2022

"We join a mass movement to escape individual responsibility, or, in the words of the ardent young Nazi, 'to be free from freedom.'" Eric Hoffer — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 13, 2022

"I want to be alone with someone else who wants to be alone." Dimitri Zaik — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 12, 2022

"We should expect most governments to abuse their privileged positions as the creators and users of money and credit for the same reasons that you might commit those abuses if you were in their shoes." Ray Dalio — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 12, 2022

"Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you will land among the stars." Les Brown — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 11, 2022

"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored." Aldous Huxley — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 10, 2022

"Women who strive to be equal to men lack ambition." Anonymous — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 9, 2022

"Every man desires to live long, but no man would be old." Jonathan Swift — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 8, 2022

"There is no amount of money I would take in exchange for a meaningful relationship, because there is nothing I could buy with that money that would be more valuable." Ray Dalio — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 7, 2022

"Our behavioral patterns are exceedingly complex, and psychology is a young science. The scope of our behavioral wisdom exceeds the breadth of our explicit interpretation. We act, even instruct, and yet do not understand. How can we do what we cannot explain?" Jordan Peterson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 6, 2022

"Unless a man has the talents to make something of himself, freedom is an irksome burden. Of what avail is freedom to choose if the self be ineffectual?" Eric Hoffer — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 5, 2022

"Introverts are word economists in a society suffering from verbal diarrhea." Michaela Chung — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 5, 2022

"Literature opens for all readers new realm of discovery and understanding." Rebecca J. Lukens — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 4, 2022

"I thought it would be like Boy Scouts." Stephen E. Funk — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 3, 2022

Let's pivot to the investing world to discover how to locate peace of mind: - How value investors stay intelligent amid downturns - How suffering companies and people that reinvest in themselves may succeed in the future - How value investing can help with personal well-being — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 2, 2022

"When thinking about the things you really want, it pays to think of their relative values so you weigh them properly. In my case, I wanted meaningful work and meaningful relationships equally, and I valued money less." Ray Dalio — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 2, 2022

"Great merit, or great failings, will make you respected or despised; but trifles, little attentions, mere nothings, either done or neglected, will make you either liked or disliked in the general run of the world." Lord Chesterfield — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 1, 2022