English Quotes

"No system of government, no economic system, no currency, and no empire lasts forever, yet almost everyone is surprised and ruined when they fail." Ray Dalio — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 31, 2022

"One can, of course, disperse one's life over the contingencies of every day, but even then it is only a ceaseless and desperate desire to live, and finally a regret that one has not lived." Leszek Kolakowski — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 31, 2022

"Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing." Thomas Henry Huxley — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 31, 2022

"I will trust you--I will extend my hand to you--despite the risk of betrayal, because it is possible, through trust, to bring out the best in you, and perhaps in me." Jordan Peterson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 30, 2022

"Hatred is the most accessible and comprehensive of all the unifying agents. Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a god, but never without a belief in a devil." Eric Hoffer — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 30, 2022

"A goal is a dream with a deadline." Napoleon Hill — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 29, 2022

"When moral gaps persist for a long enough time, they normalize. They become our default expectation." Mark Manson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 28, 2022

"What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence." Ludwig Wittgenstein — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 28, 2022

"Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions." Issac Bashevis Singer — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 28, 2022

"In terms of, like, instant relief, canceling plans is like heroin." John Mulaney — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 27, 2022

"If you can't successfully do something, don't think you can tell others how it should be done." Ray Dalio — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 26, 2022

"I'm afraid that if I look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning." Andy Warhol — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 26, 2022

"We outsource the problem of sanity. People remain mentally healthy not merely because of the integrity of their own minds, but because they are constantly being reminded how to think, act, and speak by those around them." Jordan Peterson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 26, 2022

"It is far better for a man to go wrong in freedom than to go right in chains." Thomas Henry Huxley — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 25, 2022

"In short, let it be your maxim through life, to know all you can know, yourself; and never to trust implicitly to the informations of others." Lord Chesterfield — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 24, 2022

"The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique." Issac Bashevis Singer — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 24, 2022

"When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other." Eric Hoffer — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 24, 2022

"Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do." Steve Jobs — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 23, 2022

"No matter how much wealth is generated in the world, the quality of our lives is determined by the quality of our character, and the quality of our character is determined by our relationship to our pain." Mark Manson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 22, 2022

"You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve." Mary Kay Ash — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 21, 2022

"That which you most need to find will be found where you least wish to look." Jordan Peterson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 21, 2022

"As a child I suppose I was not quite normal. My happiest times were when I was left alone in the house on a Saturday." Charles Bukowski — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 21, 2022

"The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification." Thomas Henry Huxley — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 20, 2022

"Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'" Friedrich Nietzsche — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 19, 2022

"The most meaningful relationships are achieved when you and others can speak openly to each other about everything that's important, learn together, and understand the need to hold each other accountable to be as excellent as you can be." Ray Dalio — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 19, 2022

"A novel is a mirror that strolls along a highway. Now it reflects the blue of the skies, now the mud puddles underfoot." Stendhal — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 19, 2022

"Ideologies are substitutes for true knowledge, and ideologues are always dangerous when they come to power, because a simple-minded I-know-it-all approach is no match for the complexity of existence." Jordan Peterson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 18, 2022

"The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings." Eric Hoffer — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 17, 2022

"It turns out that people--in every country in the world, there's a segment of buyer that wants the best product and the best experience. And that's what we're about providing." Tim Cook — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 17, 2022

"I am too much of a skeptic to deny the possibility of anything." Thomas Henry Huxley — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 17, 2022

"The swinging of conditions from one extreme to another in a cycle is the norm, not the exception." Ray Dalio — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 16, 2022

"Life is so difficult that losing sight of the heroic part of existence could cost us everything." Jordan Peterson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 16, 2022

"The secret to life is to put yourself in the right lighting. For some it's a Broadway spotlight, for others, a lamplit desk." Susan Cain — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 15, 2022

"No matter how many goals you have achieved, you must set your sights on a higher one." Jessica Savitch — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 14, 2022

"The world of the happy man is a different one from that of the unhappy man." Ludwig Wittgenstein — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 14, 2022

"Love has always been the most important business in my life; I should say the only one." Stendhal — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 14, 2022

"The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings." Thomas Sowell — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 13, 2022

"Because of a great love, one is courageous." Laozi — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 12, 2022

"Listening to uninformed people is worse than having no answers at all." Ray Dalio — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 12, 2022

"Heed the call of conscience and shoulder your responsibility and endeavor to set yourself and the world right... That is where the life that is worth living is to be eternally found--and where you can find it, personally, if only you are willing." Jordan Peterson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 12, 2022

"Religion is man's way of accepting life as an inevitable defeat. That it is not an inevitable defeat is a claim that cannot be defended in good faith." Leszek Kolakowski — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 11, 2022

"People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them." Eric Hoffer — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 10, 2022

"We live in a world which is full of misery and ignorance, and the plain duty of each and all of us is to try to make the little corner he can influence somewhat less miserable and somewhat less ignorant than it was before he entered." Thomas Henry Huxley — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 10, 2022

"A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." Franklin Delano Roosevelt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 10, 2022

"A hungry man is not a free man." Adlai Ewing Stevenson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 9, 2022

"I talked to a calzone for fifteen minutes last night before I realized it was just an introverted pizza. I wish all my acquaintances were so tasty." Jarod Kintz — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 9, 2022

"One finds limits by pushing them." Herbert Simon — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 8, 2022

"Opportunity lurks where responsibility has been abdicated." Jordan Peterson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 7, 2022

"I just want to be right--I don't care if the right answer comes from me." Ray Dalio — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 7, 2022

"Our conjectures pass upon us for truths; we will know what we do not know, and often, what we cannot know: so mortifying to our pride is the base suspicion of ignorance." Lord Chesterfield — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 7, 2022

"Try to learn something about everything and everything about something." Thomas Henry Huxley — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 6, 2022

"Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket." Eric Hoffer — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 5, 2022

"I would have it inscribed on the curtains of your bed and the walls of your chamber: 'If you do not rise early you can make progress in nothing'." William Pitt Chatham — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 5, 2022

"Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse." Adlai Ewing Stevenson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 5, 2022

"The happiest people discover their own nature and match their life to it." Ray Dalio — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 4, 2022

"Good people are ambitious (and diligent, honest, and focused along with it) instead because they are possessed by the desire to solve genuine, serious problems." Jordan Peterson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 3, 2022

"A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." Friedrich Nietzsche — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 3, 2022

"There's zero correlation between being the best talker and having the best ideas." Susan Cain — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 3, 2022

2022 is now 50% done – how time flies! It would be a good time to review our new-year goals and the article on cultivating good habits. All the best ❤️ https://t.co/9qeGnIZipi — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 2, 2022

"What we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts." Thomas Henry Huxley — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 2, 2022

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." Arthur C. Clarke — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 2, 2022