English Quotes

Disgust also gives us a queasy feeling when we see people with skin lesions, deformities, amputations, extreme obesity or thinness, and other violations of the culturally ideal outer envelope of the human body. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 1, 2023

...a person makes the error of identifying self with his work (rather than with the internal virtues that make the work possible)... #NathanielBranden

...a person makes the error of identifying self with his work (rather than with the internal virtues that make the work possible)... #NathanielBranden — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 1, 2023

No matter how sunny our skies get, our mind will always imagine just enough clouds to be slightly disappointed. #MarkManson

No matter how sunny our skies get, our mind will always imagine just enough clouds to be slightly disappointed. #MarkManson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 31, 2023

[On Freud, the mind is] a horse and buggy (a Victorian chariot) in which the driver (the ego) struggles frantically to control a hungry, lustful, and disobedient horse (the id) while the driver's father (the superego) sits in the back seat lecturing the driver... #JonathanHaidt

[On Freud, the mind is] a horse and buggy (a Victorian chariot) in which the driver (the ego) struggles frantically to control a hungry, lustful, and disobedient horse (the id) while the driver's father (the superego) sits in the back seat lecturing the driver... #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 31, 2023

Being radically truthful and transparent with your colleagues and expecting your colleagues to be the same with you ensures that important issues are apparent instead of hidden. #RayDalio

Being radically truthful and transparent with your colleagues and expecting your colleagues to be the same with you ensures that important issues are apparent instead of hidden. #RayDalio — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 31, 2023

Leisureliness refers to a pace of life that is not governed by the clock. #DanielDustin

Leisureliness refers to a pace of life that is not governed by the clock. #DanielDustin — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 31, 2023

...does it follow that the ones managing the war and enjoying its fruits must also be men? [...] Just as an all-Black workforce might be controlled by an all-White management, why couldn't an all-male soldiery be controlled by an all-female government? #YuvalNoahHarari

...does it follow that the ones managing the war and enjoying its fruits must also be men? [...] Just as an all-Black workforce might be controlled by an all-White management, why couldn't an all-male soldiery be controlled by an all-female government? #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 31, 2023

The strong version of the adversity hypothesis might be true, but only if we add caveats #JonathanHaidt

The strong version of the adversity hypothesis might be true, but only if we add caveats #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 30, 2023

The European welfare system promotes inefficiency and inaction. The welfare system generates its own demand. #LeeKuanYew

The European welfare system promotes inefficiency and inaction. The welfare system generates its own demand. #LeeKuanYew — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 30, 2023

The Europeans are not as competitive as the Americans. #LeeKuanYew

The Europeans are not as competitive as the Americans. #LeeKuanYew — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 30, 2023

Each side should know that frequently uncertainty, compromise, and incoherence are the essence of policymaking. Yet each tends to ascribe to the other a consistency, foresight, and coherence that its own experience belies. #HenryKissinger

Each side should know that frequently uncertainty, compromise, and incoherence are the essence of policymaking. Yet each tends to ascribe to the other a consistency, foresight, and coherence that its own experience belies. #HenryKissinger — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 30, 2023

[The elites brought us] a decaying infrastructure, the highest incarceration rate in the world, and a system of campaign finance and gerrymandered congressional districts that makes a mockery of democracy. #MichaelSandel

[The elites brought us] a decaying infrastructure, the highest incarceration rate in the world, and a system of campaign finance and gerrymandered congressional districts that makes a mockery of democracy. #MichaelSandel — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 30, 2023

People ask you for criticism, but they only want praise. #WSomersetMaugham

People ask you for criticism, but they only want praise. #WSomersetMaugham — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 29, 2023

The National Institute of Mental Health spends only .3 million on fetal prevention research, all of it for studies in mice, from its yearly .4 billion budget, Freedman noted recently. Yet half of young school shooters have symptoms of developing schizophrenia. #RobertKolker

The National Institute of Mental Health spends only .3 million on fetal prevention research, all of it for studies in mice, from its yearly .4 billion budget, Freedman noted recently. Yet half of young school shooters have symptoms of developing schizophrenia. #RobertKolker — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 29, 2023

Uninitiated, [the young] devalue history rather than find direction in it, and feel entitled to break sharply and even recklessly from the past. #ShelbySteele

Uninitiated, [the young] devalue history rather than find direction in it, and feel entitled to break sharply and even recklessly from the past. #ShelbySteele — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 29, 2023

If you followed the best possible process, then you've done all you can, and you shouldn't blame yourself if things didn't go your way. #BrianChristian

If you followed the best possible process, then you've done all you can, and you shouldn't blame yourself if things didn't go your way. #BrianChristian — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 29, 2023

There appear to be two specific sub-questions to which people want answers, and for which they find answers enlightening. The first can be called the question of the purpose of life: What is the purpose for which human beings were placed on Earth? Why are we here? #JonathanHaidt

There appear to be two specific sub-questions to which people want answers, and for which they find answers enlightening. The first can be called the question of the purpose of life: What is the purpose for which human beings were placed on Earth? Why are we here? #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 29, 2023

As the power behind the throne, the Fujiwaras not only maneuvered the young emperors into marrying their own aunts but ensured that emperors abdicated at an early age, so that each emperor was a young man easily manipulated by the family's elders. #StephanieCoontz

As the power behind the throne, the Fujiwaras not only maneuvered the young emperors into marrying their own aunts but ensured that emperors abdicated at an early age, so that each emperor was a young man easily manipulated by the family's elders. #StephanieCoontz — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 29, 2023

There is an end to everything and I want mine to come as quickly and painlessly as possible, not with me incapacitated, half in coma in bed and with a tube going into my nostrils and down to my stomach. In such cases, one is little more than a body. #LeeKuanYew

There is an end to everything and I want mine to come as quickly and painlessly as possible, not with me incapacitated, half in coma in bed and with a tube going into my nostrils and down to my stomach. In such cases, one is little more than a body. #LeeKuanYew — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 28, 2023

In this world, there are things you can only do alone, and things you can only do with somebody else. It's important to combine the two in just the right amount. #HarukiMurakami

In this world, there are things you can only do alone, and things you can only do with somebody else. It's important to combine the two in just the right amount. #HarukiMurakami — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 28, 2023

The ideals of the Enlightenment are products of human reason, but they always struggle with other strands of human nature: loyalty to tribe, deference to authority, magical thinking, the blaming of misfortune on evildoers. #StevenPinker

The ideals of the Enlightenment are products of human reason, but they always struggle with other strands of human nature: loyalty to tribe, deference to authority, magical thinking, the blaming of misfortune on evildoers. #StevenPinker — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 28, 2023

Once that [karma] software is written, your whole system functions accordingly. Based on the information from the past, certain memory patterns keep recurring. Now your life turns habitual, repetitive, and cyclical. #Sadhguru

Once that [karma] software is written, your whole system functions accordingly. Based on the information from the past, certain memory patterns keep recurring. Now your life turns habitual, repetitive, and cyclical. #Sadhguru — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 28, 2023

The Chinese manager learns never to criticize a colleague openly or in front of others, while the Dutch manager learns always to be honest and to give the message straight. #ErinMeyer

The Chinese manager learns never to criticize a colleague openly or in front of others, while the Dutch manager learns always to be honest and to give the message straight. #ErinMeyer — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 28, 2023

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot. #Plato

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot. #Plato — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 28, 2023

Life is a journey, the metaphor guides you to some conclusions: You should learn the terrain, pick a direction, find some good traveling companions, and enjoy the trip, because there may be nothing at the end of the road. #JonathanHaidt

Life is a journey, the metaphor guides you to some conclusions: You should learn the terrain, pick a direction, find some good traveling companions, and enjoy the trip, because there may be nothing at the end of the road. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 28, 2023

Tristan [Harris] believes that what we are seeing is 'the collective downgrading of humans and the upgrading of machines'. We are becoming less rational, less intelligent, less focused. #JohannHari

Tristan [Harris] believes that what we are seeing is 'the collective downgrading of humans and the upgrading of machines'. We are becoming less rational, less intelligent, less focused. #JohannHari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 27, 2023

As long as the girls are uneducated, low-caste peasants like Meena, society will look the other way--just as many antebellum Americans turned away from the horrors of slavery because the people being lashed looked different from them. #NicholasDKristof

As long as the girls are uneducated, low-caste peasants like Meena, society will look the other way--just as many antebellum Americans turned away from the horrors of slavery because the people being lashed looked different from them. #NicholasDKristof — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 27, 2023

Redesign your life so the actions that matter most are also the actions that are easiest to do. #JamesClear

Redesign your life so the actions that matter most are also the actions that are easiest to do. #JamesClear — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 27, 2023

Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment. #TonyRobbins

Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment. #TonyRobbins — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 27, 2023

Everyone has their own weakness and inferiority. Prove you are a human by overcoming them. #RickyWong

Everyone has their own weakness and inferiority. Prove you are a human by overcoming them. #RickyWong — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 27, 2023

The word coherence literally means holding or sticking together, but it is usually used to refer to a system, an idea, or a worldview whose parts fit together in a consistent and efficient way. Coherent things work well #JonathanHaidt

The word coherence literally means holding or sticking together, but it is usually used to refer to a system, an idea, or a worldview whose parts fit together in a consistent and efficient way. Coherent things work well #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 27, 2023

If the person then says I would rather go home and finish the job tomorrow, they start to feel guilty. Their Chimp is now saying, 'You can't let the troop down, what will they think?' Well as we now know, it isn't the troop at all. It is work and work colleagues. #StevePeters

If the person then says I would rather go home and finish the job tomorrow, they start to feel guilty. Their Chimp is now saying, 'You can't let the troop down, what will they think?' Well as we now know, it isn't the troop at all. It is work and work colleagues. #StevePeters — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 26, 2023

A moment or two of serious self-scrutiny, and you might observe that you no more decide the next thought you think than the next thought I write. #SamHarris

A moment or two of serious self-scrutiny, and you might observe that you no more decide the next thought you think than the next thought I write. #SamHarris — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 26, 2023

What courses are people excited about now? I asked a blonde senior in cap and gown. Nuclear physics, maybe? Modern art? Civilizations of Africa? Looking at me as if I were some prehistoric dinosaur, she said: Girls don't get excited about things like that anymore. #BettyFriedan

What courses are people excited about now? I asked a blonde senior in cap and gown. Nuclear physics, maybe? Modern art? Civilizations of Africa? Looking at me as if I were some prehistoric dinosaur, she said: Girls don't get excited about things like that anymore. #BettyFriedan — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 26, 2023

Introverts are offered keys to private gardens full of riches. To possess such a key is to tumble like Alice down her rabbit hole. She didn't choose to go to Wonderland--but she made of it an adventure that was fresh and fantastic and very much her own. #SusanCain

Introverts are offered keys to private gardens full of riches. To possess such a key is to tumble like Alice down her rabbit hole. She didn't choose to go to Wonderland--but she made of it an adventure that was fresh and fantastic and very much her own. #SusanCain — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 26, 2023

...the third-person effect can be hard to notice. In part, this is because we typically assume that ads are targeting us directly, as individual buyers; indirect influence can be harder to see. But it's also [something we'd rather not acknowledge]. #KevinSimler

...the third-person effect can be hard to notice. In part, this is because we typically assume that ads are targeting us directly, as individual buyers; indirect influence can be harder to see. But it's also [something we'd rather not acknowledge]. #KevinSimler — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 25, 2023

The way to find joy in life is to understand that you are given life to enjoy it. #AlexandraTolstoy

The way to find joy in life is to understand that you are given life to enjoy it. #AlexandraTolstoy — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 25, 2023

One single observation can invalidate a general statement derived from millennia of confirmatory sightings of millions of white swans. All you need is one single (and, I am told, quite ugly) black bird. #NassimNicholasTaleb

One single observation can invalidate a general statement derived from millennia of confirmatory sightings of millions of white swans. All you need is one single (and, I am told, quite ugly) black bird. #NassimNicholasTaleb — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 25, 2023

[When any] act of charity [is presented,] we are deeply impressed... any atrocious deed, we are disgusted. Now every emotion of this kind is an exercise of our virtuous dispositions, and dispositions of the mind, like limbs of the body, acquire strength by exercise #JonathanHaidt

[When any] act of charity [is presented,] we are deeply impressed... any atrocious deed, we are disgusted. Now every emotion of this kind is an exercise of our virtuous dispositions, and dispositions of the mind, like limbs of the body, acquire strength by exercise #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 25, 2023

In short, I began to write in order to get even on death. #WilliamSaroyan

In short, I began to write in order to get even on death. #WilliamSaroyan — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 25, 2023

Far from being a scientific front for a particular set of political views, modern evolutionary psychology makes most standard views look simplistic and unimaginitive. #GeoffreyMiller

Far from being a scientific front for a particular set of political views, modern evolutionary psychology makes most standard views look simplistic and unimaginitive. #GeoffreyMiller — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 25, 2023

Reinga flouted an important norm (against freeloading) and eventually paid dearly [but] the fishermen who put him to death felt so duty-bound by a different norm (the norm of food-sharing) that they followed it even to the point of building up murderous resentment. #KevinSimler

Reinga flouted an important norm (against freeloading) and eventually paid dearly [but] the fishermen who put him to death felt so duty-bound by a different norm (the norm of food-sharing) that they followed it even to the point of building up murderous resentment. #KevinSimler — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 25, 2023

The late maverick economist Kenneth Boulding perhaps best summed it up when testifying before the U.S. Congress, declaring that anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist. #GeoffreyWest

The late maverick economist Kenneth Boulding perhaps best summed it up when testifying before the U.S. Congress, declaring that anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist. #GeoffreyWest — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 24, 2023

But if... the fundamental human drive is not the urge for pleasure or the satisfaction of biological needs, but the need to grow and to realize one's full potential, [American housewives'] comfortable, empty, purposeless days are indeed cause for a nameless terror. #BettyFriedan

But if... the fundamental human drive is not the urge for pleasure or the satisfaction of biological needs, but the need to grow and to realize one's full potential, [American housewives'] comfortable, empty, purposeless days are indeed cause for a nameless terror. #BettyFriedan — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 24, 2023

[It might be so easy for corps] to manipulate our opinions and emotions that we will be forced to rely on algorithms in the same way that a pilot suffering an attack of vertigo must ignore what his own senses are telling him and put all his trust in the machinery #YuvalNoahHarari

[It might be so easy for corps] to manipulate our opinions and emotions that we will be forced to rely on algorithms in the same way that a pilot suffering an attack of vertigo must ignore what his own senses are telling him and put all his trust in the machinery #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 24, 2023

...that, when troubles occur, tries to find something funny, or something nearly funny, about the situation. I've carried this character around like an old suitcase, down a long, dusty path [....] I guess I have grown attached to it. #HarukiMurakami

...that, when troubles occur, tries to find something funny, or something nearly funny, about the situation. I've carried this character around like an old suitcase, down a long, dusty path [....] I guess I have grown attached to it. #HarukiMurakami — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 24, 2023

By then running had entered the realm of the metaphysical. First there came the action of running, and accompanying it there was this entity known as me. I run; therefore I am. #HarukiMurakami

By then running had entered the realm of the metaphysical. First there came the action of running, and accompanying it there was this entity known as me. I run; therefore I am. #HarukiMurakami — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 24, 2023

People fell in love during those thousands of years, sometimes with their own spouses. But marriage was not fundamentally about love. It was too vital an economic and political institution to be entered into solely on the basis of something as irrational as love. #StephanieCoontz

People fell in love during those thousands of years, sometimes with their own spouses. But marriage was not fundamentally about love. It was too vital an economic and political institution to be entered into solely on the basis of something as irrational as love. #StephanieCoontz — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 24, 2023

Too often, we fall into an all-or-nothing cycle with our habits. The problem is not slipping up; the problem is thinking that if you can't do something perfectly, then you shouldn't do it at all. #JamesClear

Too often, we fall into an all-or-nothing cycle with our habits. The problem is not slipping up; the problem is thinking that if you can't do something perfectly, then you shouldn't do it at all. #JamesClear — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 24, 2023

It is not possible to preserve one's identity by adjusting for any length of time to a frame of reference that is in itself destructive to it. It is very hard indeed for a human being to sustain such an 'inner' split #BettyFriedan

It is not possible to preserve one's identity by adjusting for any length of time to a frame of reference that is in itself destructive to it. It is very hard indeed for a human being to sustain such an 'inner' split #BettyFriedan — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 24, 2023

That has been the pattern again and again: With the best of intentions, pro-life conservatives have taken some positions in reproductive health that actually hurt those whom they are trying to help--and that result in more abortions. #NicholasDKristof

That has been the pattern again and again: With the best of intentions, pro-life conservatives have taken some positions in reproductive health that actually hurt those whom they are trying to help--and that result in more abortions. #NicholasDKristof — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 23, 2023

...we evaluate each other not only for our first-order skills, but for our skills at evaluating the skills of others. Human social life is many layered indeed. #KevinSimler

...we evaluate each other not only for our first-order skills, but for our skills at evaluating the skills of others. Human social life is many layered indeed. #KevinSimler — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 23, 2023

Schwartz's research suggests something important: we can stretch our personalities, but only up to a point. Our inborn temperaments influence us, regardless of the lives we lead. #SusanCain

Schwartz's research suggests something important: we can stretch our personalities, but only up to a point. Our inborn temperaments influence us, regardless of the lives we lead. #SusanCain — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 23, 2023

You need, besides determination, all the other attributes that will push a project along. You must have application, you must be prepared to work hard, you must be prepared to get people to work with you. #LeeKuanYew

You need, besides determination, all the other attributes that will push a project along. You must have application, you must be prepared to work hard, you must be prepared to get people to work with you. #LeeKuanYew — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 23, 2023

No matter what the guise--whether it be freedom, equality, revolution, or democracy--ultimately it leads to the shackling of the mind, to the closing off of culture, and to autocracy in politics. #QianNing

No matter what the guise--whether it be freedom, equality, revolution, or democracy--ultimately it leads to the shackling of the mind, to the closing off of culture, and to autocracy in politics. #QianNing — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 23, 2023

Protestants who try to blame it all on Catholic fanaticism are advised to read a book about the behaviour of Protestant colonists in Ireland or in North America. #YuvalNoahHarari

Protestants who try to blame it all on Catholic fanaticism are advised to read a book about the behaviour of Protestant colonists in Ireland or in North America. #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 23, 2023

Speculation is most dangerous when it looks easiest. #WarrenBuffett

Speculation is most dangerous when it looks easiest. #WarrenBuffett — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 22, 2023

The task of the leaders must be to provide or create for them a strong framework within which they can learn, work hard, be productive and be rewarded accordingly. And this is not easy to achieve. #LeeKuanYew

The task of the leaders must be to provide or create for them a strong framework within which they can learn, work hard, be productive and be rewarded accordingly. And this is not easy to achieve. #LeeKuanYew — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 22, 2023

It could be said that, had it not already existed, corporations might have invented positive psychology themselves. #EvaIllouz

It could be said that, had it not already existed, corporations might have invented positive psychology themselves. #EvaIllouz — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 22, 2023

It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom. #Aristotle

It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom. #Aristotle — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 22, 2023

The paradox of honor killings is that societies with the most rigid moral codes end up sanctioning behavior that is supremely immoral: murder. #NicholasDKristof

The paradox of honor killings is that societies with the most rigid moral codes end up sanctioning behavior that is supremely immoral: murder. #NicholasDKristof — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 22, 2023

'I wish they were all like you, Robert.' Which is to say, 'I wish they were all as quiet as you, Robert.' I'm almost indignant if I don't get that compliment at some stage. But then, I'm also uneasy, because I know that boys are not supposed to be quiet. #RobertWebb

'I wish they were all like you, Robert.' Which is to say, 'I wish they were all as quiet as you, Robert.' I'm almost indignant if I don't get that compliment at some stage. But then, I'm also uneasy, because I know that boys are not supposed to be quiet. #RobertWebb — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 22, 2023

What comes naturally to me? For just a moment, ignore what you have been taught. Ignore what society has told you. Ignore what others expect of you. Look inside yourself and ask, What feels natural to me? When have I felt alive? When have I felt like the real me? #JamesClear

What comes naturally to me? For just a moment, ignore what you have been taught. Ignore what society has told you. Ignore what others expect of you. Look inside yourself and ask, What feels natural to me? When have I felt alive? When have I felt like the real me? #JamesClear — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 22, 2023

We know that we Europeans cannot become whatever we like. We cannot become Indian or Chinese, for instance. And yet we are expected to believe that anyone in the world can move to Europe and become European. #DouglasMurray

We know that we Europeans cannot become whatever we like. We cannot become Indian or Chinese, for instance. And yet we are expected to believe that anyone in the world can move to Europe and become European. #DouglasMurray — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 21, 2023

In the 1950s married couples represented 80 percent all households in the United States. By the beginning of the twenty-first century they were less than 51 percent, and married couples with children were just 25 percent of all households. #StephanieCoontz

In the 1950s married couples represented 80 percent all households in the United States. By the beginning of the twenty-first century they were less than 51 percent, and married couples with children were just 25 percent of all households. #StephanieCoontz — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 21, 2023

Psychologists usually offer three explanations for the failure of group brainstorming. The first is social loafing [...] The second is production blocking [...] And the third is evaluation apprehension #SusanCain

Psychologists usually offer three explanations for the failure of group brainstorming. The first is social loafing [...] The second is production blocking [...] And the third is evaluation apprehension #SusanCain — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 21, 2023

Happiness is not a state of mind but a way of being, an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue. #MichaelSandel

Happiness is not a state of mind but a way of being, an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue. #MichaelSandel — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 21, 2023

Trivers, pursuing his theory of the emotions to its logical conclusion, notes that in a world of walking lie detectors the best strategy is to believe your own lies. You can't leak your hidden intentions if you don't think they are your intentions. #StevenPinker

Trivers, pursuing his theory of the emotions to its logical conclusion, notes that in a world of walking lie detectors the best strategy is to believe your own lies. You can't leak your hidden intentions if you don't think they are your intentions. #StevenPinker — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 21, 2023

Every time we feel that sense of being fully engaged and alive, whether as a result of a connection with another person, an activity such as sports--being in the zone--or simply feeling at one with the world around us, we experience a surge of dopamine #OriBrafman

Every time we feel that sense of being fully engaged and alive, whether as a result of a connection with another person, an activity such as sports--being in the zone--or simply feeling at one with the world around us, we experience a surge of dopamine #OriBrafman — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 21, 2023

The life I've lived now seems pointless, a waste. If I were younger it'd be possible to change, & I'd still have hope. But at my age the past weighs me down. It's not easy to start over. #HarukiMurakami

The life I've lived now seems pointless, a waste. If I were younger it'd be possible to change, & I'd still have hope. But at my age the past weighs me down. It's not easy to start over. #HarukiMurakami — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 20, 2023

But Natural Selection, as we shall hereafter see, is a power incessantly ready for action, and is immeasurably superior to man's feeble efforts, as the works of Nature are to those of Art. #CharlesDarwin

But Natural Selection, as we shall hereafter see, is a power incessantly ready for action, and is immeasurably superior to man's feeble efforts, as the works of Nature are to those of Art. #CharlesDarwin — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 20, 2023

Scores of studies have shown that venting doesn't soothe anger; it fuels it. #SusanCain

Scores of studies have shown that venting doesn't soothe anger; it fuels it. #SusanCain — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 20, 2023

Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each. #Plato

Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each. #Plato — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 20, 2023

When bitterness, resentment, and revenge are allowed to live in the human heart, words of affirmation will be impossible to speak. The best thing we can do with past failures is to let them be history. #GaryChapman

When bitterness, resentment, and revenge are allowed to live in the human heart, words of affirmation will be impossible to speak. The best thing we can do with past failures is to let them be history. #GaryChapman — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 20, 2023

If you come upon an observation that does not seem to fit the model, you assume that there must be a perfectly good explanation that you are somehow missing. #DanielKahneman

If you come upon an observation that does not seem to fit the model, you assume that there must be a perfectly good explanation that you are somehow missing. #DanielKahneman — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 20, 2023

The illusion of control, ownership, and independence is a useful phase, and, if we understand it properly, it can be a stepping-stone to three higher alternatives. #RichardEyre

The illusion of control, ownership, and independence is a useful phase, and, if we understand it properly, it can be a stepping-stone to three higher alternatives. #RichardEyre — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 19, 2023

[In the long decade of the 1950s] Never had married couples been so independent of extended family ties and community groups. And never before had so many people agreed that only one kind of family was normal. #StephanieCoontz

[In the long decade of the 1950s] Never had married couples been so independent of extended family ties and community groups. And never before had so many people agreed that only one kind of family was normal. #StephanieCoontz — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 19, 2023

It would be a great service to tell girls who plan to work in society to expect this subtle, uncomfortable discrimination--tell them not to be quiet, and hope it will go away, but fight it. #BettyFriedan

It would be a great service to tell girls who plan to work in society to expect this subtle, uncomfortable discrimination--tell them not to be quiet, and hope it will go away, but fight it. #BettyFriedan — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 19, 2023

Once a properly functional hierarchy has been established, an opportunity opens for its positions of authority to be usurped, not by people who have the competence demanded by the task at hand, but by those willing to use manipulation, deceit... to gain status. #JordanPeterson

Once a properly functional hierarchy has been established, an opportunity opens for its positions of authority to be usurped, not by people who have the competence demanded by the task at hand, but by those willing to use manipulation, deceit... to gain status. #JordanPeterson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 19, 2023

Every person carries a somewhat different genetic code, and is exposed from birth to different environmental influences. This leads to the development of different qualities that carry with them different chances of survival. #YuvalNoahHarari

Every person carries a somewhat different genetic code, and is exposed from birth to different environmental influences. This leads to the development of different qualities that carry with them different chances of survival. #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 19, 2023

I'd like to postpone, for as long as I possibly can, the point where my vitality is defeated and surpassed by the toxin. And besides, at this point I don't have the leisure to be burned out. Which is exactly why even though people say, He's no artist, I keep on #HarukiMurakami

I'd like to postpone, for as long as I possibly can, the point where my vitality is defeated and surpassed by the toxin. And besides, at this point I don't have the leisure to be burned out. Which is exactly why even though people say, He's no artist, I keep on #HarukiMurakami — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 19, 2023

Making people prioritize by value forces them to produce that 20 percent first. Often by the time they're done, they realize they don't really need the other 80 percent, or that what seemed important at the outset actually isn't. #JeffSutherland

Making people prioritize by value forces them to produce that 20 percent first. Often by the time they're done, they realize they don't really need the other 80 percent, or that what seemed important at the outset actually isn't. #JeffSutherland — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 18, 2023

Habit formation is incredibly useful because the conscious mind is the bottleneck of the brain. It can only pay attention to one problem at a time. As a result, your brain is always working to preserve your conscious attention for whatever task is most essential. #JamesClear

Habit formation is incredibly useful because the conscious mind is the bottleneck of the brain. It can only pay attention to one problem at a time. As a result, your brain is always working to preserve your conscious attention for whatever task is most essential. #JamesClear — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 18, 2023

You can never get enough of what you don't really need. #EricHoffer

You can never get enough of what you don't really need. #EricHoffer — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 18, 2023

Are you infallible? Are you certain that you're right about everything? If so, what makes you different from your opponents, who also are certain they're right? #StevenPinker

Are you infallible? Are you certain that you're right about everything? If so, what makes you different from your opponents, who also are certain they're right? #StevenPinker — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 18, 2023

We rarely hear, it has been said, of the combinations of masters, though frequently of those of workmen. But whoever imagines, upon this account, that masters rarely combine, is as ignorant of the world as of the subject. #AdamSmith

We rarely hear, it has been said, of the combinations of masters, though frequently of those of workmen. But whoever imagines, upon this account, that masters rarely combine, is as ignorant of the world as of the subject. #AdamSmith — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 18, 2023

Neither does philosophy deny the utility of certain kinds of anxiety. After all, as successful insomniacs have long suggested, it may be the anxious who survive best in the world. #AlaindeBotton

Neither does philosophy deny the utility of certain kinds of anxiety. After all, as successful insomniacs have long suggested, it may be the anxious who survive best in the world. #AlaindeBotton — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 17, 2023

Steps to expressing anger: 1. Stop. Breathe. 2. Identify our judgmental thoughts. 3. Connect with our needs. 4. Express our feelings and unmet needs. #MarshallRosenberg

Steps to expressing anger: 1. Stop. Breathe. 2. Identify our judgmental thoughts. 3. Connect with our needs. 4. Express our feelings and unmet needs. #MarshallRosenberg — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 17, 2023

The most effortful forms of slow thinking are those that require you to think fast. #DanielKahneman

The most effortful forms of slow thinking are those that require you to think fast. #DanielKahneman — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 17, 2023

You are only a member of a recognized minority group so long as you accept the specific grievances, political grievances and resulting electoral platforms that other people have worked out for you. Step outside of these lines and you are not... #DouglasMurray

You are only a member of a recognized minority group so long as you accept the specific grievances, political grievances and resulting electoral platforms that other people have worked out for you. Step outside of these lines and you are not... #DouglasMurray — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 17, 2023

The system we have evolved critically relies on people continually wanting new cars and new cell phones, new widgets and gadgets, new clothes and new washing machines, new thrills, new entertainment, and pretty much new everything, even when they already have enough #Geoffre…

The system we have evolved critically relies on people continually wanting new cars and new cell phones, new widgets and gadgets, new clothes and new washing machines, new thrills, new entertainment, and pretty much new everything, even when they already have enough #Geoffre… — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 17, 2023

The great power of white guilt comes from the fact that it functions by stigma, like racism itself. Whites and American institutions are stigmatized as racist until they prove otherwise. #ShelbySteele

The great power of white guilt comes from the fact that it functions by stigma, like racism itself. Whites and American institutions are stigmatized as racist until they prove otherwise. #ShelbySteele — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 17, 2023

It's okay to be ambitious, but if you play too rough, your peers will unite against you. #CharlesDuhigg

It's okay to be ambitious, but if you play too rough, your peers will unite against you. #CharlesDuhigg — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 17, 2023

High context cultures tend to have a long shared history. Usually they are relationship-oriented societies where networks of connections are passed on from generation to generation, generating more shared context among community members. #ErinMeyer

High context cultures tend to have a long shared history. Usually they are relationship-oriented societies where networks of connections are passed on from generation to generation, generating more shared context among community members. #ErinMeyer — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 16, 2023

You only have to be able to evaluate companies within your circle of competence. The size of that circle is not very important; knowing its boundaries, however, is vital. #WarrenBuffett

You only have to be able to evaluate companies within your circle of competence. The size of that circle is not very important; knowing its boundaries, however, is vital. #WarrenBuffett — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 16, 2023

'The meaning of life,' wrote Kafka, reputedly, 'is that it stops.' #DerrenBrown

'The meaning of life,' wrote Kafka, reputedly, 'is that it stops.' #DerrenBrown — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 16, 2023

As soon as public service ceases to be the chief business of the citizens, and they would rather serve with their money than with their persons, the state is not far from its fall. #MichaelSandel

As soon as public service ceases to be the chief business of the citizens, and they would rather serve with their money than with their persons, the state is not far from its fall. #MichaelSandel — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 16, 2023

And as excellent as our cognitive systems are, in the modern world we must know when to discount them and turn our reasoning over to instruments--the tools of logic, probability, and critical thinking that extend our powers of reason beyond what nature gave us. #StevenPinker

And as excellent as our cognitive systems are, in the modern world we must know when to discount them and turn our reasoning over to instruments--the tools of logic, probability, and critical thinking that extend our powers of reason beyond what nature gave us. #StevenPinker — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 16, 2023

The kingdom of God is available to you in the here and the now. But the question is whether you are available to the kingdom. Our practice is to make ourselves ready for the kingdom so that it can manifest in the here and the now. #ThichNhatHanh

The kingdom of God is available to you in the here and the now. But the question is whether you are available to the kingdom. Our practice is to make ourselves ready for the kingdom so that it can manifest in the here and the now. #ThichNhatHanh — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 16, 2023

We should treat our sexual partners with dignity. We should not regard other people as merely body parts to be enjoyed. We should aspire to love and mutuality in all of our sexual relationships, regardless of whether they are gay or straight. #LouisePerry

We should treat our sexual partners with dignity. We should not regard other people as merely body parts to be enjoyed. We should aspire to love and mutuality in all of our sexual relationships, regardless of whether they are gay or straight. #LouisePerry — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 16, 2023

If you were allowed one wish for your child, seriously consider wishing him or her optimism. #DanielKahneman

If you were allowed one wish for your child, seriously consider wishing him or her optimism. #DanielKahneman — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 15, 2023

But we want more than love. We want a lifelong wingman/wingwoman who completes us and can handle the truth, to mix metaphors from three different Tom Cruise movies. #AzizAnsari

But we want more than love. We want a lifelong wingman/wingwoman who completes us and can handle the truth, to mix metaphors from three different Tom Cruise movies. #AzizAnsari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 15, 2023

Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults. #LordChesterfield

Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults. #LordChesterfield — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 15, 2023

What Friedan gave to the world was, the problem that has no name. She not only named it but dissected it. The advances of science, the development of labor-saving appliances, the development of the suburbs: all had come together to offer women in the 1950s a life #BettyFriedan

What Friedan gave to the world was, the problem that has no name. She not only named it but dissected it. The advances of science, the development of labor-saving appliances, the development of the suburbs: all had come together to offer women in the 1950s a life #BettyFriedan — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 15, 2023

America's schools rarely convey much understanding of the 2.7 billion people (40 percent of the world's population) who today live on less than 2 dollars a day. #NicholasDKristof

America's schools rarely convey much understanding of the 2.7 billion people (40 percent of the world's population) who today live on less than 2 dollars a day. #NicholasDKristof — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 15, 2023

Education should become a joyful choice, not a compulsive extruder out of which every child has to come out in a certain shape. #Sadhguru

Education should become a joyful choice, not a compulsive extruder out of which every child has to come out in a certain shape. #Sadhguru — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 15, 2023

Propaganda... serves more to justify ourselves than to convince others; and the more reason we have to feel guilty, the more fervent our propaganda. #EricHoffer

Propaganda... serves more to justify ourselves than to convince others; and the more reason we have to feel guilty, the more fervent our propaganda. #EricHoffer — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 14, 2023

Each of us thinks we see the world directly, as it really is. #JonathanHaidt

Each of us thinks we see the world directly, as it really is. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 14, 2023

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world. #ArthurSchopenhauer

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world. #ArthurSchopenhauer — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 14, 2023

[Inside fMRI machines], the sensitive people were processing the photos at a more elaborate level than their peers... It may also help explain why they're so bored by small talk. #SusanCain

[Inside fMRI machines], the sensitive people were processing the photos at a more elaborate level than their peers... It may also help explain why they're so bored by small talk. #SusanCain — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 14, 2023

...laughter is deniable. In this way, it gives us safe harbor, an easy out. When someone accuses us of laughing inappropriately, it's easy to brush off. Oh, I didn't really understand what she meant, we might demur. Or, Come on, lighten up! It was only a joke! #KevinSimler