English Quotes

The organization of our mental modules comes from our genetic program, but that does not mean that there is a gene for every trait or that learning is less important than we used to think. #StevenPinker — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 1, 2023

In pursuit of health, happiness and power, humans will gradually change first one of their features and then another, and another, until they will no longer be human. #YuvalNoahHarari

In pursuit of health, happiness and power, humans will gradually change first one of their features and then another, and another, until they will no longer be human. #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 31, 2023

Let's not mince words: if we are ill, or a loved one dies, this is ultimately a matter of no importance to fate and the machinations of the universe. #DerrenBrown

Let's not mince words: if we are ill, or a loved one dies, this is ultimately a matter of no importance to fate and the machinations of the universe. #DerrenBrown — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 31, 2023

And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our fear, our presence automatically liberates others. #MarshallRosenberg

And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our fear, our presence automatically liberates others. #MarshallRosenberg — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 31, 2023

The other is the despair that arises when people believe the meritocratic promise has already been fulfilled, and they have lost out. #MichaelSandel

The other is the despair that arises when people believe the meritocratic promise has already been fulfilled, and they have lost out. #MichaelSandel — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 31, 2023

Those who work only for a livelihood often feel constrained and suffocated. But when you are deeply involved in your work on every level, you will find activity invigorates you; it does not exhaust you. #Sadhguru

Those who work only for a livelihood often feel constrained and suffocated. But when you are deeply involved in your work on every level, you will find activity invigorates you; it does not exhaust you. #Sadhguru — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 31, 2023

The worst terrorist attack in history by far was 9/11, and it claimed 3,000 lives; in most bad years, the United States suffers a few dozen terrorist deaths, a rounding error in the tally of homicides and accidents. #StevenPinker

The worst terrorist attack in history by far was 9/11, and it claimed 3,000 lives; in most bad years, the United States suffers a few dozen terrorist deaths, a rounding error in the tally of homicides and accidents. #StevenPinker — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 31, 2023

There is a deeper happiness to be had in knowing that your life is part of a story of flourishing than there is in merely pursuing entertainment. #DerrenBrown

There is a deeper happiness to be had in knowing that your life is part of a story of flourishing than there is in merely pursuing entertainment. #DerrenBrown — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 30, 2023

Moving lockstep through a series of predictable transitions is no longer a route to personal security. #StephanieCoontz

Moving lockstep through a series of predictable transitions is no longer a route to personal security. #StephanieCoontz — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 30, 2023

How to handle it. The yogic system gives no commandments whatsoever. It leaves you free to choose whether you want to generate positive karma for the future, distance yourself from your karmic package, or dissolve it altogether. #Sadhguru

How to handle it. The yogic system gives no commandments whatsoever. It leaves you free to choose whether you want to generate positive karma for the future, distance yourself from your karmic package, or dissolve it altogether. #Sadhguru — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 30, 2023

Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another. #AdamSmith

Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another. #AdamSmith — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 30, 2023

Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request. #LordChesterfield

Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request. #LordChesterfield — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 30, 2023

Love is a choice. #GaryChapman

Love is a choice. #GaryChapman — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 30, 2023

Since violence is largely a male pastime, cultures that empower women tend to move away from the glorification of violence and are less likely to breed dangerous subcultures of rootless young men. #StevenPinker

Since violence is largely a male pastime, cultures that empower women tend to move away from the glorification of violence and are less likely to breed dangerous subcultures of rootless young men. #StevenPinker — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 30, 2023

We grew up in a society in which we naturally believed everything to be unassailably right. #QianNing

We grew up in a society in which we naturally believed everything to be unassailably right. #QianNing — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 29, 2023

Genuine self-esteem is what we feel about ourselves when everything is not all right. #NathanielBranden

Genuine self-esteem is what we feel about ourselves when everything is not all right. #NathanielBranden — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 29, 2023

Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it's time for them to be hurt. #HarukiMurakami

Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it's time for them to be hurt. #HarukiMurakami — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 29, 2023

People instinctively dislike those things they can't understand, a pattern characteristic of members of the establishment who are buried up to their ears in the dominant forms of expression. They tend to apprehend the newcomer with abhorrence and disgust #HarukiMurakami

People instinctively dislike those things they can't understand, a pattern characteristic of members of the establishment who are buried up to their ears in the dominant forms of expression. They tend to apprehend the newcomer with abhorrence and disgust #HarukiMurakami — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 29, 2023

Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable. #CocoChanel

Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable. #CocoChanel — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 29, 2023

It is not what you are telling people, it is how you are saying it. #NassimNicholasTaleb

It is not what you are telling people, it is how you are saying it. #NassimNicholasTaleb — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 29, 2023

In the nineteenth century the Industrial Revolution created new conditions and problems that none of the existing social, economic, and political models could cope with. #YuvalNoahHarari

In the nineteenth century the Industrial Revolution created new conditions and problems that none of the existing social, economic, and political models could cope with. #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 28, 2023

Romantic love is a passionate spiritual-emotional-sexual attachment between a man and a woman that reflects a high regard for the value of each other's person. #NathanielBranden

Romantic love is a passionate spiritual-emotional-sexual attachment between a man and a woman that reflects a high regard for the value of each other's person. #NathanielBranden — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 28, 2023

The people in Silicon Valley did not want to design gadgets and websites that would dissolve people's attention spans. They're not the Joker, trying to sow chaos and make us dumb. They spend a lot of their own time meditating and doing yoga. #JohannHari

The people in Silicon Valley did not want to design gadgets and websites that would dissolve people's attention spans. They're not the Joker, trying to sow chaos and make us dumb. They spend a lot of their own time meditating and doing yoga. #JohannHari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 28, 2023

Life teaches us to be less harsh with ourselves and with others. #JohannWolfgangvonGoethe

Life teaches us to be less harsh with ourselves and with others. #JohannWolfgangvonGoethe — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 28, 2023

What a commentary on our civilization, when being alone is considered suspect; when one has to apologize for it, make excuses, hide the fact that one practices it like a secret vice! #AnneMorrowLindbergh

What a commentary on our civilization, when being alone is considered suspect; when one has to apologize for it, make excuses, hide the fact that one practices it like a secret vice! #AnneMorrowLindbergh — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 28, 2023

The doctrine of the sacredness of the soul sounds vaguely uplifting, but in fact is highly malignant. It discounts life on earth as just a temporary phase that people pass through, indeed, an infinitesimal fraction of their existence... #StevenPinker

The doctrine of the sacredness of the soul sounds vaguely uplifting, but in fact is highly malignant. It discounts life on earth as just a temporary phase that people pass through, indeed, an infinitesimal fraction of their existence... #StevenPinker — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 28, 2023

A man must always live by his work, and his wages must at least be sufficient to maintain him [...] otherwise it would be impossible for him to bring up a family, and the race of such workmen could not last beyond the first generation. #AdamSmith

A man must always live by his work, and his wages must at least be sufficient to maintain him [...] otherwise it would be impossible for him to bring up a family, and the race of such workmen could not last beyond the first generation. #AdamSmith — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 27, 2023

In the wealthy countries of the West, discrimination is usually a matter of unequal pay or underfunded sports teams or unwanted touching from a boss. In contrast, in much of the world discrimination is lethal. #NicholasDKristof

In the wealthy countries of the West, discrimination is usually a matter of unequal pay or underfunded sports teams or unwanted touching from a boss. In contrast, in much of the world discrimination is lethal. #NicholasDKristof — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 27, 2023

We may find that some of our ambitions for personal glory fade when the public spaces and facilities to which we enjoy access are themselves glorious to behold; in such a context, ordinary citizenship may come to seem an adequate goal. #AlaindeBotton

We may find that some of our ambitions for personal glory fade when the public spaces and facilities to which we enjoy access are themselves glorious to behold; in such a context, ordinary citizenship may come to seem an adequate goal. #AlaindeBotton — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 27, 2023

A certain type of perfection can only be realized through a limitless accumulation of the imperfect. #HarukiMurakami

A certain type of perfection can only be realized through a limitless accumulation of the imperfect. #HarukiMurakami — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 27, 2023

Man staggers through life yapped at by his reason, pulled and shoved by his appetites, whispered to by fears, beckoned by hopes. Small wonder that what he craves most is self-forgetting. #EricHoffer

Man staggers through life yapped at by his reason, pulled and shoved by his appetites, whispered to by fears, beckoned by hopes. Small wonder that what he craves most is self-forgetting. #EricHoffer — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 27, 2023

William James, the father of American psychology, asserts that there's nothing so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task, but Frank Partnoy, in Wait, makes the case for deliberately not doing things right away. #BrianChristian

William James, the father of American psychology, asserts that there's nothing so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task, but Frank Partnoy, in Wait, makes the case for deliberately not doing things right away. #BrianChristian — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 27, 2023

Some degree of prostitution will probably always be with us, but we need not acquiesce to widespread sexual slavery. #NicholasDKristof

Some degree of prostitution will probably always be with us, but we need not acquiesce to widespread sexual slavery. #NicholasDKristof — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 26, 2023

American feminism must become less parochial, so that it is every bit as concerned with sex slavery in Asia as with Title IX sports programs in Illinois. #NicholasDKristof

American feminism must become less parochial, so that it is every bit as concerned with sex slavery in Asia as with Title IX sports programs in Illinois. #NicholasDKristof — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 26, 2023

We often have a strong urge to give advice or reassurance and to explain our own position or feeling. Empathy, however, calls upon us to empty our mind and listen to others with our whole being. #MarshallRosenberg

We often have a strong urge to give advice or reassurance and to explain our own position or feeling. Empathy, however, calls upon us to empty our mind and listen to others with our whole being. #MarshallRosenberg — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 26, 2023

The first thing you have to know is yourself. A man who knows himself can step outside himself and watch his own reactions like an observer. #AdamSmith

The first thing you have to know is yourself. A man who knows himself can step outside himself and watch his own reactions like an observer. #AdamSmith — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 26, 2023

We grossly overestimate the length of the effect of misfortune on our lives. You think that the loss of your fortune or current position will be devastating, but you are probably wrong. #NassimNicholasTaleb

We grossly overestimate the length of the effect of misfortune on our lives. You think that the loss of your fortune or current position will be devastating, but you are probably wrong. #NassimNicholasTaleb — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 26, 2023

Translated into English as Icarus Fallen, she suggested that the condition of modern European man was the condition that Icarus would have been in had he survived the fall. #DouglasMurray

Translated into English as Icarus Fallen, she suggested that the condition of modern European man was the condition that Icarus would have been in had he survived the fall. #DouglasMurray — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 26, 2023

I have extended the 'good-enough' theory to most of my life and now my death. We are, at times, so often obsessed or feel pressurised into 'being the best at... the fastest at... the cleverest at... I genuinely worry about all of this positive thinking/life coaching! #DerrenBrown

I have extended the 'good-enough' theory to most of my life and now my death. We are, at times, so often obsessed or feel pressurised into 'being the best at... the fastest at... the cleverest at... I genuinely worry about all of this positive thinking/life coaching! #DerrenBrown — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 25, 2023

To end loneliness, you need other people--plus something [...] you are sharing something with the other person, or the group, that is meaningful to both of you. You have to be in it together--and it can be anything that you both think has meaning and value. #JohannHari

To end loneliness, you need other people--plus something [...] you are sharing something with the other person, or the group, that is meaningful to both of you. You have to be in it together--and it can be anything that you both think has meaning and value. #JohannHari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 25, 2023

The end and purpose of a polis is the good life, and the institutions of social life are means to that end. #Aristotle

The end and purpose of a polis is the good life, and the institutions of social life are means to that end. #Aristotle — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 25, 2023

It took me a while to see that the contrast between the racism directed at Billie and the compassion offered to addicted white stars like Judy Garland was not some weird misfiring of the drug war--it was part of the point. #JohannHari

It took me a while to see that the contrast between the racism directed at Billie and the compassion offered to addicted white stars like Judy Garland was not some weird misfiring of the drug war--it was part of the point. #JohannHari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 25, 2023

While greed is one of the most popular-and most fallacious-explanations of the very high salaries of corporate executives, when your salary depends on what other people are willing to pay you, you can be the greediest person on earth and that will not raise your pay #ThomasSowell

While greed is one of the most popular-and most fallacious-explanations of the very high salaries of corporate executives, when your salary depends on what other people are willing to pay you, you can be the greediest person on earth and that will not raise your pay #ThomasSowell — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 25, 2023

Consumers of news should be aware of its built-in bias and adjust their information diet to include sources that present the bigger statistical picture: less Facebook News Feed, more Our World in Data. #StevenPinker

Consumers of news should be aware of its built-in bias and adjust their information diet to include sources that present the bigger statistical picture: less Facebook News Feed, more Our World in Data. #StevenPinker — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 25, 2023

If you had seven categories of traumatic event as a child, you were 3,100 percent more likely to attempt to commit suicide as an adult. #JohannHari

If you had seven categories of traumatic event as a child, you were 3,100 percent more likely to attempt to commit suicide as an adult. #JohannHari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 24, 2023

If you were to ask most people what matters in their lives very few would say 'power'. Not because they haven't absorbed their Foucault, but because it is perverse to see everything in life through such a monomaniacal lens. #DouglasMurray

If you were to ask most people what matters in their lives very few would say 'power'. Not because they haven't absorbed their Foucault, but because it is perverse to see everything in life through such a monomaniacal lens. #DouglasMurray — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 24, 2023

Though many traditional religions espouse universal values and claim cosmic validity, at present they are used mainly as the handmaid of modern nationalism--whether in North Korea, Russia, Iran or Israel. #YuvalNoahHarari

Though many traditional religions espouse universal values and claim cosmic validity, at present they are used mainly as the handmaid of modern nationalism--whether in North Korea, Russia, Iran or Israel. #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 24, 2023

Patriarchal social relations are supposed to be amicable and seamless, when all is going to plan. It is largely when things go awry that violence tends to bubble to the surface. #KateManne

Patriarchal social relations are supposed to be amicable and seamless, when all is going to plan. It is largely when things go awry that violence tends to bubble to the surface. #KateManne — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 24, 2023

No black problem-whether high crime rates, poor academic performance, or high illegitimacy rates-could be defined as largely a black responsibility, because it was an injustice to make victims responsible for their own problems. To do so would be to [blame victims] #ShelbySteele

No black problem-whether high crime rates, poor academic performance, or high illegitimacy rates-could be defined as largely a black responsibility, because it was an injustice to make victims responsible for their own problems. To do so would be to [blame victims] #ShelbySteele — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 24, 2023

I've been thinking about 'The Jetsons' since I was a kid. But occasionally, you want 'The Jetsons' to come to reality. That's what Apple is so great at: Productizing things and bringing them to you so you can be a part of it. #TimCook

I've been thinking about 'The Jetsons' since I was a kid. But occasionally, you want 'The Jetsons' to come to reality. That's what Apple is so great at: Productizing things and bringing them to you so you can be a part of it. #TimCook — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 24, 2023

'What is a truly reliable source of positive emotion?' The answer is that people experience positive emotion in relationship to the pursuit of a valuable goal. #JordanPeterson

'What is a truly reliable source of positive emotion?' The answer is that people experience positive emotion in relationship to the pursuit of a valuable goal. #JordanPeterson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 23, 2023

Now, if my talks were about quoting from a scripture, such friendship and affection would be impossible. Scripture means memory; memory means hierarchy. This hierarchy turns one thing into sacred, another into filthy. What we consider sacred becomes an authority... #Sadhguru

Now, if my talks were about quoting from a scripture, such friendship and affection would be impossible. Scripture means memory; memory means hierarchy. This hierarchy turns one thing into sacred, another into filthy. What we consider sacred becomes an authority... #Sadhguru — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 23, 2023

The passion for equality is partly a passion for anonymity: to be one thread of the many which make up a tunic; one thread not distinguishable from the others. No one can then point us out, measure us against others and expose our inferiority. #EricHoffer

The passion for equality is partly a passion for anonymity: to be one thread of the many which make up a tunic; one thread not distinguishable from the others. No one can then point us out, measure us against others and expose our inferiority. #EricHoffer — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 23, 2023

A great team doesn't mean that they had the smartest people. What made those teams great is that everyone trusted one another. It can be a powerful thing when that magic dynamic exists. #GeneKim

A great team doesn't mean that they had the smartest people. What made those teams great is that everyone trusted one another. It can be a powerful thing when that magic dynamic exists. #GeneKim — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 23, 2023

We might invest a lot of effort teaching kids how to write in C++ or speak Chinese, only to discover that by 2050 AI can code software far better than humans, and a new Google Translate app will enable you to conduct a conversation in almost flawless Mandarin... #YuvalNoahHarari

We might invest a lot of effort teaching kids how to write in C++ or speak Chinese, only to discover that by 2050 AI can code software far better than humans, and a new Google Translate app will enable you to conduct a conversation in almost flawless Mandarin... #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 23, 2023

The bad news is, everybody has bad luck. It's just that most of us have margins of resources and access to support that allow us to weather the storm, because we're not trying to live off 2 dollars a day. #GaryAHaugen

The bad news is, everybody has bad luck. It's just that most of us have margins of resources and access to support that allow us to weather the storm, because we're not trying to live off 2 dollars a day. #GaryAHaugen — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 23, 2023

[The US] can afford to worry less about inequality than the class-bound societies of Europe because here, it is possible to rise. Seventy percent of Americans believe the poor can make it out of poverty on their own, while only 35 percent of Europeans think so. #MichaelSandel

[The US] can afford to worry less about inequality than the class-bound societies of Europe because here, it is possible to rise. Seventy percent of Americans believe the poor can make it out of poverty on their own, while only 35 percent of Europeans think so. #MichaelSandel — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 22, 2023

Changing residence, getting married or divorced, losing or changing a job, having someone enter or leave the household, Andreasen wrote, are life changes that make consumers more vulnerable to intervention by marketers. #CharlesDuhigg

Changing residence, getting married or divorced, losing or changing a job, having someone enter or leave the household, Andreasen wrote, are life changes that make consumers more vulnerable to intervention by marketers. #CharlesDuhigg — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 22, 2023

In today's world, it is generally thought that individuals only pursue their own self-interest. Love is an antidote to that. Provided it isn't conceived only as an exchange of mutual favours, or isn't calculated way in advance as a profitable investment #AlainBadiou

In today's world, it is generally thought that individuals only pursue their own self-interest. Love is an antidote to that. Provided it isn't conceived only as an exchange of mutual favours, or isn't calculated way in advance as a profitable investment #AlainBadiou — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 22, 2023

A back door is a nonstarter. It means we are all not safe... I don't support a back door for any government, ever. #TimCook

A back door is a nonstarter. It means we are all not safe... I don't support a back door for any government, ever. #TimCook — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 22, 2023

I had to make sure that the one person who did like the place really liked it. In order to make sure he did, I had to make my philosophy and stance clear-cut, and patiently maintain that stance no matter what. This is what I learned through running a business. #HarukiMurakami

I had to make sure that the one person who did like the place really liked it. In order to make sure he did, I had to make my philosophy and stance clear-cut, and patiently maintain that stance no matter what. This is what I learned through running a business. #HarukiMurakami — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 22, 2023

I have tried to live my life such that in the hour of my death I would feel joy rather than fear. #MarkManson

I have tried to live my life such that in the hour of my death I would feel joy rather than fear. #MarkManson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 22, 2023

The fact that religious ideas are capable of uniting vast numbers of people under a single moral umbrella (although such ideas can divide across sects, as well) also indicates something universal calling from within. #JordanPeterson

The fact that religious ideas are capable of uniting vast numbers of people under a single moral umbrella (although such ideas can divide across sects, as well) also indicates something universal calling from within. #JordanPeterson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 21, 2023

We draw ever nearer to the end of our allotted span of time, bidding it farewell as it trails off behind. Repeating, often adroitly, the endless deeds of the everyday. Leaving behind a feeling of immeasurable emptiness. #HarukiMurakami

We draw ever nearer to the end of our allotted span of time, bidding it farewell as it trails off behind. Repeating, often adroitly, the endless deeds of the everyday. Leaving behind a feeling of immeasurable emptiness. #HarukiMurakami — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 21, 2023

If you live a responsible life, you'll run into responsible people. #AzizAnsari

If you live a responsible life, you'll run into responsible people. #AzizAnsari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 21, 2023

It's hard to change your habits if you never change the underlying beliefs that led to your past behavior. You have a new goal and a new plan, but you haven't changed who you are. #JamesClear

It's hard to change your habits if you never change the underlying beliefs that led to your past behavior. You have a new goal and a new plan, but you haven't changed who you are. #JamesClear — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 21, 2023

Kahneman and Tversky conclude that people are not risk-averse across the board, though they are loss-averse: they seek risk if it may avoid a loss. #StevenPinker

Kahneman and Tversky conclude that people are not risk-averse across the board, though they are loss-averse: they seek risk if it may avoid a loss. #StevenPinker — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 21, 2023

Studies of upward mobility typically divide the income ladder into five rungs. Of those born on the bottom rung, only around 4 to 7 percent rise to the top, and only about a third reach the middle rung or higher. #MichaelSandel

Studies of upward mobility typically divide the income ladder into five rungs. Of those born on the bottom rung, only around 4 to 7 percent rise to the top, and only about a third reach the middle rung or higher. #MichaelSandel — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 21, 2023

Journalists should put lurid events in context. A killing or plane crash or shark attack should be accompanied by the annual rate, which takes into account the denominator of the probability, not just the numerator. #StevenPinker

Journalists should put lurid events in context. A killing or plane crash or shark attack should be accompanied by the annual rate, which takes into account the denominator of the probability, not just the numerator. #StevenPinker — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 20, 2023

The best negotiations are the ones with someone in which I say, 'You should take more,' and they argue back, 'No you should take more!' People who operate this way with each other make the relationship better and the pie bigger--and both benefit in the long run. #RayDalio

The best negotiations are the ones with someone in which I say, 'You should take more,' and they argue back, 'No you should take more!' People who operate this way with each other make the relationship better and the pie bigger--and both benefit in the long run. #RayDalio — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 20, 2023

A commitment device is a choice you make in the present that controls your actions in the future. It is a way to lock in future behavior, bind you to good habits, and restrict you from bad ones. #JamesClear

A commitment device is a choice you make in the present that controls your actions in the future. It is a way to lock in future behavior, bind you to good habits, and restrict you from bad ones. #JamesClear — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 20, 2023

I am often accused of interfering in the private lives of citizens. Yes, if I did not, had I not done that, we wouldn't be here today. And I say without the slightest remorse, that we wouldn't be here, we would not have made economic progress... #LeeKuanYew

I am often accused of interfering in the private lives of citizens. Yes, if I did not, had I not done that, we wouldn't be here today. And I say without the slightest remorse, that we wouldn't be here, we would not have made economic progress... #LeeKuanYew — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 20, 2023

The welfare system has not produced scintillating results for the British. #LeeKuanYew

The welfare system has not produced scintillating results for the British. #LeeKuanYew — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 20, 2023

How does one convince millions of people to believe particular stories about gods, nations, or limited liability companies? Yet when it succeeds, it gives Sapiens immense power, because it enables millions of strangers to cooperate and work towards common goals. #YuvalNoahHarari

How does one convince millions of people to believe particular stories about gods, nations, or limited liability companies? Yet when it succeeds, it gives Sapiens immense power, because it enables millions of strangers to cooperate and work towards common goals. #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 20, 2023

You can sometimes tilt the playing field in your own favor. You don't discreetly lift the surface of a game of table football unless you're an outrageous cheat. It's acceptable to do so [...] if your opponent is the one in your mind who keeps saying 'stop being alive' #RobertWebb

You can sometimes tilt the playing field in your own favor. You don't discreetly lift the surface of a game of table football unless you're an outrageous cheat. It's acceptable to do so [...] if your opponent is the one in your mind who keeps saying 'stop being alive' #RobertWebb — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 19, 2023

When you are in love, by connecting with a single body here and now, you feel connected with the entire cosmos. If you are really in love with someone, you never worry about the meaning of life. #YuvalNoahHarari

When you are in love, by connecting with a single body here and now, you feel connected with the entire cosmos. If you are really in love with someone, you never worry about the meaning of life. #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 19, 2023

The proposition that we can look into another person's heart with perfect clarity strikes me as a fool's game. I don't care how well we think we should understand them, or how much we love them. All it can do is cause us pain. Examining your own heart, however #HarukiMurakami

The proposition that we can look into another person's heart with perfect clarity strikes me as a fool's game. I don't care how well we think we should understand them, or how much we love them. All it can do is cause us pain. Examining your own heart, however #HarukiMurakami — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 19, 2023

If Australia is forever opening up and apologising for its own past while China remains silent, the impression may eventually be instilled, in children in Australia as much as anywhere else, that Australia is the country with more to apologise for #DouglasMurray

If Australia is forever opening up and apologising for its own past while China remains silent, the impression may eventually be instilled, in children in Australia as much as anywhere else, that Australia is the country with more to apologise for #DouglasMurray — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 19, 2023

Like money, approval from others is a form of extrinsic reward. #MarshallRosenberg

Like money, approval from others is a form of extrinsic reward. #MarshallRosenberg — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 19, 2023

The audacity of thought is not to repeat 'to the limit' that which is already entirely retained within the situation which the limit limits; the audacity of thought consists in crossing a space where nothing is given. We must learn once more how to succeed. #AlainBadiou

The audacity of thought is not to repeat 'to the limit' that which is already entirely retained within the situation which the limit limits; the audacity of thought consists in crossing a space where nothing is given. We must learn once more how to succeed. #AlainBadiou — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 19, 2023

If you experience sadness without craving that the sadness go away, you continue to feel sadness but you do not suffer from it. There can actually be richness in the sadness. #YuvalNoahHarari

If you experience sadness without craving that the sadness go away, you continue to feel sadness but you do not suffer from it. There can actually be richness in the sadness. #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 18, 2023

If you want to do something that requires willpower--like going for a run after work--you have to conserve your willpower muscle during the day #CharlesDuhigg

If you want to do something that requires willpower--like going for a run after work--you have to conserve your willpower muscle during the day #CharlesDuhigg — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 18, 2023

China will not be able to project power in the Indian Ocean. Nor will India succeed in projecting power into the Pacific Ocean. #LeeKuanYew

China will not be able to project power in the Indian Ocean. Nor will India succeed in projecting power into the Pacific Ocean. #LeeKuanYew — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 18, 2023

Many of our fiercest controversies involve decisions on how to reconcile fuzzy family resemblance concepts with the classical categories demanded by logic and law. #StevenPinker

Many of our fiercest controversies involve decisions on how to reconcile fuzzy family resemblance concepts with the classical categories demanded by logic and law. #StevenPinker — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 18, 2023

As we pass through life, we hurt people and people hurt us, we act compassionately and others show compassion to us. If we pay attention, our moral sensitivity sharpens, and these experiences become a source of valuable ethical knowledge... #YuvalNoahHarari

As we pass through life, we hurt people and people hurt us, we act compassionately and others show compassion to us. If we pay attention, our moral sensitivity sharpens, and these experiences become a source of valuable ethical knowledge... #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 18, 2023

With humour or gravity, works of art--novels, poems, plays, paintings or films--can function as vehicles to explain our condition to us. They may act as guides to a truer, more judicious, more intelligent understanding of the world. #AlaindeBotton

With humour or gravity, works of art--novels, poems, plays, paintings or films--can function as vehicles to explain our condition to us. They may act as guides to a truer, more judicious, more intelligent understanding of the world. #AlaindeBotton — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 18, 2023

No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you will see why. #MignonMcLaughlin

No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you will see why. #MignonMcLaughlin — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 17, 2023

If changing strategies doesn't help, you can try to change the game. And if that's not possible, you can at least exercise some control about which games you choose to play. #BrianChristian

If changing strategies doesn't help, you can try to change the game. And if that's not possible, you can at least exercise some control about which games you choose to play. #BrianChristian — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 17, 2023

The older you get, the busier you become. #HarukiMurakami

The older you get, the busier you become. #HarukiMurakami — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 17, 2023

...most European Union states use the civil law system that originated in Roman law and the Napoleonic Code, in which a general statue or principle is applied on a case by case basis, mirroring the principle first approach. #ErinMeyer

...most European Union states use the civil law system that originated in Roman law and the Napoleonic Code, in which a general statue or principle is applied on a case by case basis, mirroring the principle first approach. #ErinMeyer — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 17, 2023

I do not want to sound like a hawk or a dove. If I have to choose a metaphor from the aviary, I would like to think of the owl. #LeeKuanYew

I do not want to sound like a hawk or a dove. If I have to choose a metaphor from the aviary, I would like to think of the owl. #LeeKuanYew — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 17, 2023

Religion is created by humans rather than by gods, and it is defined by its social function rather than by the existence of deities. #YuvalNoahHarari

Religion is created by humans rather than by gods, and it is defined by its social function rather than by the existence of deities. #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 17, 2023

Only as we mature does affection begin to depend on achievement. #AlaindeBotton

Only as we mature does affection begin to depend on achievement. #AlaindeBotton — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 16, 2023

Your net worth is a lagging measure of your financial habits. Your weight is a lagging measure of your eating habits. Your knowledge is a lagging measure of your learning habits. Your clutter is a lagging measure of your cleaning habits. You get what you repeat. #JamesClear

Your net worth is a lagging measure of your financial habits. Your weight is a lagging measure of your eating habits. Your knowledge is a lagging measure of your learning habits. Your clutter is a lagging measure of your cleaning habits. You get what you repeat. #JamesClear — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 16, 2023

You may find that part of your personal style comes from the culture where you spent the first years of your life, another from the culture where you attended college and held your first job, another from your father's culture, and still another from your mother's #ErinMeyer

You may find that part of your personal style comes from the culture where you spent the first years of your life, another from the culture where you attended college and held your first job, another from your father's culture, and still another from your mother's #ErinMeyer — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 16, 2023

Habits never really disappear. They're encoded into the structures of our brain, and that's a huge advantage for us, because it would be awful if we had to relearn how to drive after every vacation. #CharlesDuhigg

Habits never really disappear. They're encoded into the structures of our brain, and that's a huge advantage for us, because it would be awful if we had to relearn how to drive after every vacation. #CharlesDuhigg — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 16, 2023

What makes us the most normal, said Reiko, is knowing that we're not normal. #HarukiMurakami

What makes us the most normal, said Reiko, is knowing that we're not normal. #HarukiMurakami — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 16, 2023

An unhealthy soul requires a healthy body. #HarukiMurakami

An unhealthy soul requires a healthy body. #HarukiMurakami — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 16, 2023

The one who chooses to love will find appropriate ways to express that decision every day. #GaryChapman

The one who chooses to love will find appropriate ways to express that decision every day. #GaryChapman — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 15, 2023

Many atheists might proudly proclaim that our lives have no ultimate meaning, yet the business of finding significance in one's life is perhaps the most important part of being human. #DerrenBrown

Many atheists might proudly proclaim that our lives have no ultimate meaning, yet the business of finding significance in one's life is perhaps the most important part of being human. #DerrenBrown — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 15, 2023

Or at school you might have been prodded to come out of your shell--that noxious expression which fails to appreciate that some animals naturally carry shelter everywhere they go, and that some humans are just the same. #SusanCain

Or at school you might have been prodded to come out of your shell--that noxious expression which fails to appreciate that some animals naturally carry shelter everywhere they go, and that some humans are just the same. #SusanCain — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 15, 2023

Decide the type of person you want to be. Prove it to yourself with small wins. #JamesClear

Decide the type of person you want to be. Prove it to yourself with small wins. #JamesClear — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 15, 2023

Love can only consist in failure...on the fallacious assumption that it is a relationship. But it is not. It is a production of truth. #AlainBadiou

Love can only consist in failure...on the fallacious assumption that it is a relationship. But it is not. It is a production of truth. #AlainBadiou — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 15, 2023

Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become. No single instance will transform your beliefs, but as the votes build up, so does the evidence of your new identity. #JamesClear

Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become. No single instance will transform your beliefs, but as the votes build up, so does the evidence of your new identity. #JamesClear — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 15, 2023

The Golden Rule of Habit Change: You can't extinguish a bad habit, you can only change it. #CharlesDuhigg

The Golden Rule of Habit Change: You can't extinguish a bad habit, you can only change it. #CharlesDuhigg — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 14, 2023

In a society where opportunities were truly equal, markets would give people their just deserts. #MichaelSandel

In a society where opportunities were truly equal, markets would give people their just deserts. #MichaelSandel — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 14, 2023

When forecasting the outcomes of risky projects, executives too easily fall victim to the planning fallacy. In its grip, they make decisions based on delusional optimism rather than on a rational weighting of gains, losses, and probabilities. #DanielKahneman

When forecasting the outcomes of risky projects, executives too easily fall victim to the planning fallacy. In its grip, they make decisions based on delusional optimism rather than on a rational weighting of gains, losses, and probabilities. #DanielKahneman — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 14, 2023

It is the pull of opposite poles that stretches souls. And only stretched souls make music. #EricHoffer

It is the pull of opposite poles that stretches souls. And only stretched souls make music. #EricHoffer — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 14, 2023

No matter how long you stand there examining yourself naked before a mirror, you'll never see reflected what's inside. #HarukiMurakami

No matter how long you stand there examining yourself naked before a mirror, you'll never see reflected what's inside. #HarukiMurakami — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 14, 2023

People tend to criticize their spouse most loudly in the area where they themselves have the deepest emotional need. #GaryChapman

People tend to criticize their spouse most loudly in the area where they themselves have the deepest emotional need. #GaryChapman — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 14, 2023

In each generation, roughly a few hundred people made all the difference. #RayDalio

In each generation, roughly a few hundred people made all the difference. #RayDalio — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 13, 2023

The most dangerous extremists know how to dress up their childish values in the language of transaction or universal principle. #MarkManson

The most dangerous extremists know how to dress up their childish values in the language of transaction or universal principle. #MarkManson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 13, 2023

We all pay dearly when people respond to our values and needs not out of a desire to give from the heart, but out of fear, guilt, or shame. #MarshallRosenberg

We all pay dearly when people respond to our values and needs not out of a desire to give from the heart, but out of fear, guilt, or shame. #MarshallRosenberg — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 13, 2023

We rarely think about change this way because everyone is consumed by the end goal. But one push-up is better than not exercising. One minute of guitar practice is better than none at all. One minute of reading is better than never picking up a book. #JamesClear

We rarely think about change this way because everyone is consumed by the end goal. But one push-up is better than not exercising. One minute of guitar practice is better than none at all. One minute of reading is better than never picking up a book. #JamesClear — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 13, 2023

...introverts are capable of acting like extroverts for the sake of work they consider important, people they love, or anything they value highly. #SusanCain

...introverts are capable of acting like extroverts for the sake of work they consider important, people they love, or anything they value highly. #SusanCain — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 13, 2023

Shame derives its power from being unspeakable. #BreneBrown

Shame derives its power from being unspeakable. #BreneBrown — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 13, 2023

Some people are polite, and some are quick. Each one's a good quality to have, but most of the time quickness trumps politeness. #HarukiMurakami

Some people are polite, and some are quick. Each one's a good quality to have, but most of the time quickness trumps politeness. #HarukiMurakami — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 12, 2023

Initially, we are attracted to people by their physical appearance and traits we can quickly recognize. But the things that really make us fall for someone are their deeper, more unique qualities, and usually those only come out during sustained interactions. #AzizAnsari

Initially, we are attracted to people by their physical appearance and traits we can quickly recognize. But the things that really make us fall for someone are their deeper, more unique qualities, and usually those only come out during sustained interactions. #AzizAnsari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 12, 2023

Marginalized peoples--excluded, minimized, shamed--are traumatized peoples, because as we've discussed, humans are fundamentally relational creatures. To be excluded [...] you are part of results in prolonged, uncontrollable stress that is sensitizing. #BruceDPerry

Marginalized peoples--excluded, minimized, shamed--are traumatized peoples, because as we've discussed, humans are fundamentally relational creatures. To be excluded [...] you are part of results in prolonged, uncontrollable stress that is sensitizing. #BruceDPerry — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 12, 2023

Willingness to [...] accept our feelings carries no implication that emotions are to have the last word [...] I may not be in the mood to work today; I can acknowledge [...] I will work with a clearer mind because I have not begun the day with self-deception. #NathanielBranden

Willingness to [...] accept our feelings carries no implication that emotions are to have the last word [...] I may not be in the mood to work today; I can acknowledge [...] I will work with a clearer mind because I have not begun the day with self-deception. #NathanielBranden — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 12, 2023

[Those with] important positions in society are commonly labelled somebodies, and their inverse nobodies-both of which are, of course, nonsensical descriptors, for we are all, by necessity, individuals with distinct identities and comparable claims on existence #AlaindeBotton

[Those with] important positions in society are commonly labelled somebodies, and their inverse nobodies-both of which are, of course, nonsensical descriptors, for we are all, by necessity, individuals with distinct identities and comparable claims on existence #AlaindeBotton — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 12, 2023

I restore myself when I'm alone. #MarilynMonroe

I restore myself when I'm alone. #MarilynMonroe — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 12, 2023

The most practical way to change who you are is to change what you do. #JamesClear

The most practical way to change who you are is to change what you do. #JamesClear — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 11, 2023

...manage finite space finite time limited attention unknown unknowns incomplete information and an unforeseeable future; how to do so with grace and confidence; and how to do so in a community with others who are all simultaneously trying to do the same. #BrianChristian

...manage finite space, finite time, limited attention, unknown unknowns, incomplete information, and an unforeseeable future; how to do so with grace and confidence; and how to do so in a community with others who are all simultaneously trying to do the same. #BrianChristian — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 11, 2023

The karmic mechanism is ceaseless. Every mental fluctuation in you creates a chemical reaction which then proceeds to provoke a physical sensation. This sensation in turn reinforces the chemical reaction which then strengthens the mental fluctuation. #Sadhguru

The karmic mechanism is ceaseless. Every mental fluctuation in you creates a chemical reaction, which then proceeds to provoke a physical sensation. This sensation, in turn, reinforces the chemical reaction, which then strengthens the mental fluctuation. #Sadhguru — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 11, 2023

To have a good life it is not enough to remove what is wrong with it Mihaly has explained. We also need a positive goal; otherwise why keep going? #JohannHari

To have a good life, it is not enough to remove what is wrong with it, Mihaly has explained. We also need a positive goal; otherwise why keep going? #JohannHari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 11, 2023

For most people academic studies are a deal rather than a spiritual journey because they take us to a predetermined goal approved by our elders governments and banks. #YuvalNoahHarari

For most people, academic studies are a deal rather than a spiritual journey, because they take us to a predetermined goal approved by our elders, governments and banks. #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 11, 2023

When you love someone you have to offer that person the best you have. The best thing we can offer another person is our true presence. #ThichNhatHanh

When you love someone, you have to offer that person the best you have. The best thing we can offer another person is our true presence. #ThichNhatHanh — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 11, 2023

Cash ... is to a business as oxygen is to an individual: never thought about when it is present the only thing in mind when it is absent. #WarrenBuffett

Cash ... is to a business as oxygen is to an individual: never thought about when it is present, the only thing in mind when it is absent. #WarrenBuffett — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 10, 2023

Let's shine the light of consciousness on places where we can hope to find what we are seeking. #MarshallRosenberg

Let's shine the light of consciousness on places where we can hope to find what we are seeking. #MarshallRosenberg — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 10, 2023

I started to make a literary being of myself someone who lives as if her experiences were to be written down someday. #AnnieErnaux

I started to make a literary being of myself, someone who lives as if her experiences were to be written down someday. #AnnieErnaux — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 10, 2023

If there remains any overriding idea it is that ideas are a problem. If there is any remaining commonly held value judgement it is that value judgements are wrong. If there remains any remaining certainty it is a distrust of certainty. #DouglasMurray

If there remains any overriding idea it is that ideas are a problem. If there is any remaining commonly held value judgement it is that value judgements are wrong. If there remains any remaining certainty it is a distrust of certainty. #DouglasMurray — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 10, 2023

What we [Ozawa and Murakami] are doing is entirely different. but I imagine we may well be the same when it comes to the depth of our concentration. It often occurs to me that this life of mine would not exist if I lacked the ability to concentrate. #HarukiMurakami

What we [Ozawa and Murakami] are doing is entirely different. but I imagine we may well be the same when it comes to the depth of our concentration. It often occurs to me that this life of mine would not exist if I lacked the ability to concentrate. #HarukiMurakami — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 10, 2023

Indeed there is evidence that people are more likely to be influenced by empty persuasive messages such as commercials when they are tired and depleted. #DanielKahneman

Indeed, there is evidence that people are more likely to be influenced by empty persuasive messages, such as commercials, when they are tired and depleted. #DanielKahneman — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 10, 2023

Yet in truth the lives of most people have meaning only within the network of stories they tell one another. #YuvalNoahHarari

Yet in truth the lives of most people have meaning only within the network of stories they tell one another. #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 9, 2023

[On Silicon Valley people taking steps to dominate the attention spans of the wider society] It's not their goal any more than ExxonMobil deliberately wants to melt the Arctic. But it's an inescapable effect of their current business model. #JohannHari

[On Silicon Valley people taking steps to dominate the attention spans of the wider society] It's not their goal, any more than ExxonMobil deliberately wants to melt the Arctic. But it's an inescapable effect of their current business model. #JohannHari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 9, 2023

Religion is a deal whereas spirituality is a journey. #YuvalNoahHarari

Religion is a deal, whereas spirituality is a journey. #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 9, 2023

Jumping to conclusions is efficient if the conclusions are likely to be correct and the costs of an occasional mistake acceptable. Jumping to conclusions is risky when the situation is unfamiliar the stakes are high and there is no time to collect more information. #DanielK

Jumping to conclusions is efficient if the conclusions are likely to be correct and the costs of an occasional mistake acceptable. Jumping to conclusions is risky when the situation is unfamiliar, the stakes are high and there is no time to collect more information. #DanielK… — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 9, 2023

It takes time and the conscious choice to listen. #GaryChapman

It takes time and the conscious choice to listen. #GaryChapman — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 9, 2023

One day however it hit me that I was pushing thirty. What I thought of as my youth was coming to a close. I remember how weird that feeling was. So this is how it is I thought. Time just slips away. #HarukiMurakami

One day, however, it hit me that I was pushing thirty. What I thought of as my youth was coming to a close. I remember how weird that feeling was. So this is how it is, I thought. Time just slips away. #HarukiMurakami — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 9, 2023

But when the group is literally capable of changing our perceptions and when to stand alone is to activate primitive powerful and unconscious feelings of rejection then the health of these institutions seems far more vulnerable than we think. #SusanCain

But when the group is literally capable of changing our perceptions, and when to stand alone is to activate primitive, powerful, and unconscious feelings of rejection, then the health of these institutions seems far more vulnerable than we think. #SusanCain — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 8, 2023

Put your heart mind and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success. #SwamiSivananda

Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success. #SwamiSivananda — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 8, 2023

One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives. #MarkTwain

One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives. #MarkTwain — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 8, 2023

What I'm asking you to entertain is that there is nothing we need to believe on insufficient evidence in order to have deeply ethical and spiritual lives. #SamHarris

What I'm asking you to entertain is that there is nothing we need to believe on insufficient evidence in order to have deeply ethical and spiritual lives. #SamHarris — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 8, 2023

The affluence of the few supposes the indigence of the many. The affluence of the rich excites the indignation of the poor who are often both driven by want and prompted by envy to invade his possessions. #AdamSmith

The affluence of the few supposes the indigence of the many. The affluence of the rich excites the indignation of the poor, who are often both driven by want, and prompted by envy, to invade his possessions. #AdamSmith — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 8, 2023

The history of ethics is a sad tale of wonderful ideals that nobody can live up to. #YuvalNoahHarari

The history of ethics is a sad tale of wonderful ideals that nobody can live up to. #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 8, 2023

So to find flow you need to choose one single goal; make sure your goal is meaningful to you; and try to push yourself to the edge of your abilities. #JohannHari

So, to find flow, you need to choose one single goal; make sure your goal is meaningful to you; and try to push yourself to the edge of your abilities. #JohannHari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 7, 2023

Perhaps a sleep-walking murderer can plausibly argue that he wasn't aware of his habit and so he doesn't bear responsibility for his crime but almost all of the other patterns that exist in most people's lives [...] those are habits that we know exist. #CharlesDuhigg

Perhaps a sleep-walking murderer can plausibly argue that he wasn't aware of his habit, and so he doesn't bear responsibility for his crime, but almost all of the other patterns that exist in most people's lives [...] those are habits that we know exist. #CharlesDuhigg — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 7, 2023

Think of many things do one. #PortugueseProverb

Think of many things, do one. #PortugueseProverb — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 7, 2023

This explains why habits are so powerful: They create neurological cravings. Most of the time these cravings emerge so gradually that we're not really aware they exist so we're often blind to their influence. #CharlesDuhigg

This explains why habits are so powerful: They create neurological cravings. Most of the time, these cravings emerge so gradually that we're not really aware they exist, so we're often blind to their influence. #CharlesDuhigg — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 7, 2023

Much of what is today called social criticism consists of members of the upper classes denouncing the tastes of the lower classes (bawdy entertainment fast food plentiful consumer goods) while considering themselves egalitarians. #StevenPinker

Much of what is today called social criticism consists of members of the upper classes denouncing the tastes of the lower classes (bawdy entertainment, fast food, plentiful consumer goods) while considering themselves egalitarians. #StevenPinker — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 7, 2023

The authority who remembers his or her sojourn as voluntary beginner... can retain their identification with the newcomer and the promise of potential and use that memory as the source of personal information necessary to constrain the hunger for power. #JordanPeterson

The authority who remembers his or her sojourn as voluntary beginner... can retain their identification with the newcomer and the promise of potential, and use that memory as the source of personal information necessary to constrain the hunger for power. #JordanPeterson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 7, 2023

Modern universities--oddly enough given that their mission is to evaluate ideas--have been at the forefront of finding ways to suppress opinions including disinviting and drowning out speakers removing controversial teachers from the classroom revoking offers... #StevenPinker

Modern universities--oddly enough, given that their mission is to evaluate ideas--have been at the forefront of finding ways to suppress opinions, including disinviting and drowning out speakers, removing controversial teachers from the classroom, revoking offers... #StevenPinker — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 6, 2023

Education deals with the development of the intellectual powers of men. #RobertMaynardHutchins

Education deals with the development of the intellectual powers of men. #RobertMaynardHutchins — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 6, 2023

...do you [smoke] because you love nicotine or because it provides a burst of stimulation a structure to your day a way to socialize? If you smoke [for] stimulation studies indicate that some caffeine in the afternoon can increase the odds you'll quit. #CharlesDuhigg

...do you [smoke] because you love nicotine, or because it provides a burst of stimulation, a structure to your day, a way to socialize? If you smoke [for] stimulation, studies indicate that some caffeine in the afternoon can increase the odds you'll quit. #CharlesDuhigg — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 6, 2023

...the adversarial system in law peer review in science editing and fact-checking in journalism academic freedom in universities and freedom of speech in the public sphere. Disagreement is necessary in deliberations among mortals. #StevenPinker

...the adversarial system in law, peer review in science, editing and fact-checking in journalism, academic freedom in universities, and freedom of speech in the public sphere. Disagreement is necessary in deliberations among mortals. #StevenPinker — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 6, 2023

Perhaps in the twenty-first century populist revolts will be staged not against an economic elite that exploits people but against an economic elite that does not need them anymore. #YuvalNoahHarari

Perhaps in the twenty-first century populist revolts will be staged not against an economic elite that exploits people but against an economic elite that does not need them anymore. #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 6, 2023

We did not domesticate wheat. It domesticated us. The word 'domesticate' comes from the Latin domus which means 'house'. Who's the one living in a house? Not the wheat. It's the Sapiens. #YuvalNoahHarari

We did not domesticate wheat. It domesticated us. The word 'domesticate' comes from the Latin domus, which means 'house'. Who's the one living in a house? Not the wheat. It's the Sapiens. #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 6, 2023

Everybody uses their mind when they think. But a writer puts on an outfit called narrative and thinks with his entire being; and for the novelist that process requires putting into play all your physical reserve often to the point of overexertion. #HarukiMurakami

Everybody uses their mind when they think. But a writer puts on an outfit called narrative and thinks with his entire being; and for the novelist that process requires putting into play all your physical reserve, often to the point of overexertion. #HarukiMurakami — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 5, 2023

It is important not to confuse nationalism with mere worship of success. #GeorgeOrwell

It is important not to confuse nationalism with mere worship of success. #GeorgeOrwell — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 5, 2023

Science obviously has its limitations and it has got many things wrong in the past. Nevertheless the scientific community has been our most reliable source of knowledge for centuries. #YuvalNoahHarari

Science obviously has its limitations, and it has got many things wrong in the past. Nevertheless, the scientific community has been our most reliable source of knowledge for centuries. #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 5, 2023

There's not a dating service on this planet that can do what the human brain can do in terms of finding the right person. #AzizAnsari

There's not a dating service on this planet that can do what the human brain can do in terms of finding the right person. #AzizAnsari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 5, 2023

In fact there is no such magic formula for longevity in political life other than the simple and the obvious: just honour your promises; do not corrupt and debauch your party. #LeeKuanYew

In fact, there is no such magic formula for longevity in political life other than the simple and the obvious: just honour your promises; do not corrupt and debauch your party. #LeeKuanYew — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 5, 2023

Many of the leaders on my team today only joined after saying no once or twice before. Nowadays I tell people who turn us down that I hope our paths cross again. Jobs may be short but careers are long. #JulieZhuo

Many of the leaders on my team today only joined after saying no once or twice before. Nowadays, I tell people who turn us down that I hope our paths cross again. Jobs may be short, but careers are long. #JulieZhuo — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 5, 2023

If a person possesses any tolerable amount of common sense and experience his own mode of laying out his existence is the best not because it is the best in itself but because it is his own mode. #JohnStuartMill

If a person possesses any tolerable amount of common sense and experience, his own mode of laying out his existence is the best, not because it is the best in itself, but because it is his own mode. #JohnStuartMill — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 5, 2023

Some nationalists are not far from schizophrenia living quite happily amid dreams of power and conquest which have no connexion with the physical world. #GeorgeOrwell

Some nationalists are not far from schizophrenia, living quite happily amid dreams of power and conquest which have no connexion with the physical world. #GeorgeOrwell — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 5, 2023

There is hope. That's the marvelous thing about being human. We can change our future. We need not be enslaved by the experiences of the past. We can learn to love even when we have not received love. #GaryChapman

There is hope. That's the marvelous thing about being human. We can change our future. We need not be enslaved by the experiences of the past. We can learn to love even when we have not received love. #GaryChapman — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 4, 2023

Do we still remember the question we are trying to answer? Or have we substituted an easier one? #DanielKahneman

Do we still remember the question we are trying to answer? Or have we substituted an easier one? #DanielKahneman — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 4, 2023

Most any time race is given importance positively or negatively people are hiding from their true motivations. #ShelbySteele

Most any time race is given importance, positively or negatively, people are hiding from their true motivations. #ShelbySteele — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 4, 2023

Religion is a paramount aspect of human culture. Religious need cannot be ex-communicated from culture by rationalist incantation. Man does not live by reason alone. #LeszekKolakowski

Religion is a paramount aspect of human culture. Religious need cannot be ex-communicated from culture by rationalist incantation. Man does not live by reason alone. #LeszekKolakowski — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 4, 2023

In essence the optimistic style involves taking credit for successes but little blame for failures. #DanielKahneman

In essence, the optimistic style involves taking credit for successes but little blame for failures. #DanielKahneman — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 4, 2023

If you want to make enemies try to change something. #WoodrowWilson

If you want to make enemies, try to change something. #WoodrowWilson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 4, 2023

To improve you can rotate through the Four Laws of Behavior Change until you find the next bottleneck. Make it obvious. Make it attractive. Make it easy. Make it satisfying. Round and round. Always looking for the next way to get 1 percent better. #JamesClear

To improve, you can rotate through the Four Laws of Behavior Change until you find the next bottleneck. Make it obvious. Make it attractive. Make it easy. Make it satisfying. Round and round. Always looking for the next way to get 1 percent better. #JamesClear — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 3, 2023

The weakness of a soul is proportionate to the number of truths that must be kept from it. #EricHoffer

The weakness of a soul is proportionate to the number of truths that must be kept from it. #EricHoffer — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 3, 2023

Disagreement is not oppression. Argument is not assault. Words--even provocative or repugnant ones--are not violence. The answer to speech we do not like is more speech. #DouglasMurray

Disagreement is not oppression. Argument is not assault. Words--even provocative or repugnant ones--are not violence. The answer to speech we do not like is more speech. #DouglasMurray — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 3, 2023

The end of the race is just a temporary marker without much significance. It's the same with our lives. #HarukiMurakami

The end of the race is just a temporary marker without much significance. It's the same with our lives. #HarukiMurakami — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 3, 2023

Introverts are drawn to the inner world of thought and feeling said Jung extroverts to the external life of people and activities. #SusanCain

Introverts are drawn to the inner world of thought and feeling, said Jung, extroverts to the external life of people and activities. #SusanCain — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 3, 2023

Gifts are visual symbols of love. #GaryChapman

Gifts are visual symbols of love. #GaryChapman — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 3, 2023

Tears in the listener's eyes are the finest possible reward for any singer. #HansChristianAndersen

Tears in the listener's eyes are the finest possible reward for any singer. #HansChristianAndersen — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 2, 2023

What I wanted was to have an interesting diverse life filled with lots of learning and especially meaningful work and meaningful relationships. I feel that I have gotten these in abundance and I am happy. #RayDalio

What I wanted was to have an interesting, diverse life filled with lots of learning, and especially meaningful work and meaningful relationships. I feel that I have gotten these in abundance and I am happy. #RayDalio — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 2, 2023

Today if you own a smartphone you're carrying a 24-7 singles bar in your pocket. #AzizAnsari

Today, if you own a smartphone, you're carrying a 24-7 singles bar in your pocket. #AzizAnsari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 2, 2023

We are social animals; hell is other people. #NassimNicholasTaleb

We are social animals; hell is other people. #NassimNicholasTaleb — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 2, 2023

Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success. #HenryFord

Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success. #HenryFord — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 2, 2023

China is not suffering a brain drain to the same extent that India is. #LeeKuanYew

China is not suffering a brain drain to the same extent that India is. #LeeKuanYew — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 2, 2023

The uber-capitalist economic system that has taken hold in the United States in recent years propelled by uncontrollable greed and contempt for human decency is not merely unjust. It is grossly immoral. #BernieSanders

The uber-capitalist economic system that has taken hold in the United States in recent years, propelled by uncontrollable greed and contempt for human decency, is not merely unjust. It is grossly immoral. #BernieSanders — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 1, 2023

Though no one can go back and make a brand-new start anyone can start from now and make a brand-new ending. #CarlBrad

Though no one can go back and make a brand-new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand-new ending. #CarlBrad — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 1, 2023

When people think they're doing several things at once they're actually--as Earl explained--juggling. They're switching back and forth. They don't notice the switching because their brain sort of papers it over to give a seamless experience of consciousness #JohannHari

When people think they're doing several things at once, they're actually--as Earl explained--juggling. They're switching back and forth. They don't notice the switching because their brain sort of papers it over, to give a seamless experience of consciousness, #JohannHari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 1, 2023

I chose to face it in person rather than staying out; I chose to witness it with my own eyes instead of blinding my eyes; I chose to speak instead of being silent. #HarukiMurakami