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

...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 — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 14, 2023

A very small shift in direction can lead to a very meaningful change in destination. #JamesClear

A very small shift in direction can lead to a very meaningful change in destination. #JamesClear — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 14, 2023

Maybe working on the little things as dutifully and honestly as we can is how we stay sane when the world is falling apart. #HarukiMurakami

Maybe working on the little things as dutifully and honestly as we can is how we stay sane when the world is falling apart. #HarukiMurakami — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 13, 2023

We have never said that we're perfect. We've said that we seek that. But we sometimes fall short. #TimCook

We have never said that we're perfect. We've said that we seek that. But we sometimes fall short. #TimCook — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 13, 2023

...we need to identify what our story is and then know how to move it forward. If we don't--if we swing between pain and boredom, or merely defy those who would dare to tell us what to do--we shut off important channels of development (and, therefore, life). #DerrenBrown

...we need to identify what our story is and then know how to move it forward. If we don't--if we swing between pain and boredom, or merely defy those who would dare to tell us what to do--we shut off important channels of development (and, therefore, life). #DerrenBrown — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 13, 2023

Duke University researcher in 2006 found that more than 40 percent of the actions people performed each day weren't actual decisions, but habits. #CharlesDuhigg

Duke University researcher in 2006 found that more than 40 percent of the actions people performed each day weren't actual decisions, but habits. #CharlesDuhigg — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 13, 2023

[Atomic Habits] How can I make it obvious? How can I make it attractive? How can I make it easy? How can I make it satisfying? #JamesClear

[Atomic Habits] How can I make it obvious? How can I make it attractive? How can I make it easy? How can I make it satisfying? #JamesClear — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 13, 2023

Anger is never automatic or even inevitable for the oppressed; it is chosen when weakness in the oppressor means it will be effective in winning freedom or justice or spoils of some kind. Anger in the oppressed is a response to perceived opportunity not to injustice #ShelbySteele

Anger is never automatic or even inevitable for the oppressed; it is chosen when weakness in the oppressor means it will be effective in winning freedom or justice or spoils of some kind. Anger in the oppressed is a response to perceived opportunity not to injustice #ShelbySteele — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 13, 2023

Do not pretend you are happy with something if you are not, and if a reasonable solution might, in principle, be negotiated. Have the damn fight. Unpleasant as that might be in the moment, it is one less straw on the camel's back. #JordanPeterson

Do not pretend you are happy with something if you are not, and if a reasonable solution might, in principle, be negotiated. Have the damn fight. Unpleasant as that might be in the moment, it is one less straw on the camel's back. #JordanPeterson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 13, 2023

In 2016 exposing your breasts was a 'feminist' act [...] And even a woman who claimed for religious and social reasons to be 'modest' could willingly and easily delight a studio audience by flashing her breasts--unasked for--at a man. #DouglasMurray

In 2016 exposing your breasts was a 'feminist' act [...] And even a woman who claimed for religious and social reasons to be 'modest' could willingly and easily delight a studio audience by flashing her breasts--unasked for--at a man. #DouglasMurray — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 12, 2023

Freud understood that the human personality was not unitary. Instead, it consists of a loose, fragmented cacophony of spirits, who do not always agree or even communicate. #JordanPeterson

Freud understood that the human personality was not unitary. Instead, it consists of a loose, fragmented cacophony of spirits, who do not always agree or even communicate. #JordanPeterson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 12, 2023

If you generate a strong reaction, you will distort the experience. But if you remain equanimous, the karma attached to that type of sensation begins to crumble within you. #Sadhguru

If you generate a strong reaction, you will distort the experience. But if you remain equanimous, the karma attached to that type of sensation begins to crumble within you. #Sadhguru — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 12, 2023

Anton Kuijsten comments that rather than ordering from the standard life course menu, as people used to do, an individual now composes his or her history a la carte. And marriage, the obligatory entree during the 1950s, has become the optional dessert. #StephanieCoontz

Anton Kuijsten comments that rather than ordering from the standard life course menu, as people used to do, an individual now composes his or her history a la carte. And marriage, the obligatory entree during the 1950s, has become the optional dessert. #StephanieCoontz — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 12, 2023

In general, if any branch of trade, or any division of labour, be advantageous to the public, the freer and more general the competition, it will always be the more so. #AdamSmith

In general, if any branch of trade, or any division of labour, be advantageous to the public, the freer and more general the competition, it will always be the more so. #AdamSmith — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 12, 2023

The insight of polytheism is conducive to far-reaching religious tolerance. [...] Polytheism is inherently open-minded, and rarely persecutes 'heretics' and 'infidels'. #YuvalNoahHarari

The insight of polytheism is conducive to far-reaching religious tolerance. [...] Polytheism is inherently open-minded, and rarely persecutes 'heretics' and 'infidels'. #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 12, 2023

Perhaps the deepest insight that comes from thinking about later life as a chance to exploit knowledge acquired over decades is this: life should get better over time. What an explorer trades off for knowledge is pleasure. #BrianChristian

Perhaps the deepest insight that comes from thinking about later life as a chance to exploit knowledge acquired over decades is this: life should get better over time. What an explorer trades off for knowledge is pleasure. #BrianChristian — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 12, 2023

Those who are greatest in civic excellence--not the wealthiest, or the most numerous, or the most handsome--are the ones who merit the greatest share of political recognition and influence. #MichaelSandel

Those who are greatest in civic excellence--not the wealthiest, or the most numerous, or the most handsome--are the ones who merit the greatest share of political recognition and influence. #MichaelSandel — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 11, 2023

People sometimes sneer at those who run every day, claiming they'll go to any length to live longer. But I don't think that's the reason most people run. Most runners run not because they want to live longer, but because they want to live life to the fullest. #HarukiMurakami

People sometimes sneer at those who run every day, claiming they'll go to any length to live longer. But I don't think that's the reason most people run. Most runners run not because they want to live longer, but because they want to live life to the fullest. #HarukiMurakami — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 11, 2023

I'm getting contacted left and right every day, and I realize now how much work he did behind the scenes to take care of things. #JulieZhuo

I'm getting contacted left and right every day, and I realize now how much work he did behind the scenes to take care of things. #JulieZhuo — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 11, 2023

[Psychologist Judith Grobrob] found that this group [who hided emotions on disgusting images] reported feeling less disgusted by the pictures than did those who'd been allowed to react naturally. Later, however, the people who hid their emotions suffered side effects. #SusanCain

[Psychologist Judith Grobrob] found that this group [who hided emotions on disgusting images] reported feeling less disgusted by the pictures than did those who'd been allowed to react naturally. Later, however, the people who hid their emotions suffered side effects. #SusanCain — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 11, 2023

The rising stars on your team may not be clamoring for your attention, but if you help them to dream bigger and become more capable leaders, you'll be amazed at how much more your team can do as a whole. #JulieZhuo

The rising stars on your team may not be clamoring for your attention, but if you help them to dream bigger and become more capable leaders, you'll be amazed at how much more your team can do as a whole. #JulieZhuo — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 11, 2023

Love doesn't keep a score of wrongs. Love doesn't bring up past failures. #GaryChapman

- August 10, 2023

Love doesn't keep a score of wrongs. Love doesn't bring up past failures. #GaryChapman — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 11, 2023

America had shifted from what influential cultural historian Warren Susman called a culture of character to a culture of personality, and opened up a Pandora's box of personal anxieties of which we would never recover. #SusanCain

America had shifted from what influential cultural historian Warren Susman called a culture of character to a culture of personality, and opened up a Pandora's box of personal anxieties of which we would never recover. #SusanCain — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 9, 2023

It's having six hundred channels and nothing to watch. It's having fifteen matches on Tinder but no one good to date. It's having two thousand restaurants to choose from but feeling sick of all the same old food. Prosperity makes meaning more difficult. #MarkManson

It's having six hundred channels and nothing to watch. It's having fifteen matches on Tinder but no one good to date. It's having two thousand restaurants to choose from but feeling sick of all the same old food. Prosperity makes meaning more difficult. #MarkManson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 9, 2023

There's something uniquely valuable in everyone, and we'll be much happier and better off if we invest the time and energy it takes to find it. But seriously, if the person doesn't clip their toenails or wear clean socks, look elsewhere. There are plenty of options. #AzizAnsari

There's something uniquely valuable in everyone, and we'll be much happier and better off if we invest the time and energy it takes to find it. But seriously, if the person doesn't clip their toenails or wear clean socks, look elsewhere. There are plenty of options. #AzizAnsari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 9, 2023

Forgiveness is not a feeling; it is a commitment. It is a choice to show mercy, not to hold the offense up against the offender. Forgiveness is an expression of love. #GaryChapman

Forgiveness is not a feeling; it is a commitment. It is a choice to show mercy, not to hold the offense up against the offender. Forgiveness is an expression of love. #GaryChapman — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 9, 2023

Great labour, either of mind or body, continued for several days together is, in most men, naturally followed by a great desire of relaxation, which, if not restrained by force, or by some strong necessity, is almost irresistible. #AdamSmith

Great labour, either of mind or body, continued for several days together is, in most men, naturally followed by a great desire of relaxation, which, if not restrained by force, or by some strong necessity, is almost irresistible. #AdamSmith — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 9, 2023

I'm getting to the age where you really do get only what you pay for. #HarukiMurakami

I'm getting to the age where you really do get only what you pay for. #HarukiMurakami — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 9, 2023

When people have this feeling of personal inefficiency, compulsive collecting helps them in feeling better. #LuluMiller

When people have this feeling of personal inefficiency, compulsive collecting helps them in feeling better. #LuluMiller — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 8, 2023

My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists. #JeanRostand

My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists. #JeanRostand — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 8, 2023

The way things are does not determine the way they ought to be. #MichaelSandel

The way things are does not determine the way they ought to be. #MichaelSandel — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 8, 2023

...it is a mistake to conceive consumption as the sole end and object of economic activity. #MichaelSandel

...it is a mistake to conceive consumption as the sole end and object of economic activity. #MichaelSandel — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 8, 2023

For the working classes of Western Europe, especially landless laborers, the spread of wage labor and the breakdown of older community constraints on courting led to a sharp increase in out-of-wedlock births. #StephanieCoontz

For the working classes of Western Europe, especially landless laborers, the spread of wage labor and the breakdown of older community constraints on courting led to a sharp increase in out-of-wedlock births. #StephanieCoontz — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 8, 2023

Long-range planning works best in the short term. #DougEvelyn

Long-range planning works best in the short term. #DougEvelyn — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 8, 2023

I had always imagined Rosa Parks as a stately woman with a bold temperament, someone who could easily stand up to a busload of glowering passengers. But when she died in 2005 at the age of [92], the flood of obituaries recalled her as soft-spoken, sweet, and small... #SusanCain

I had always imagined Rosa Parks as a stately woman with a bold temperament, someone who could easily stand up to a busload of glowering passengers. But when she died in 2005 at the age of [92], the flood of obituaries recalled her as soft-spoken, sweet, and small... #SusanCain — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 7, 2023

...hiding what you know is sometimes as important as knowing it... #CharlesDuhigg

...hiding what you know is sometimes as important as knowing it... #CharlesDuhigg — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 7, 2023

We have chains, though no eye beholds them; and we are slaves, though men call us free. #OscarWilde

We have chains, though no eye beholds them; and we are slaves, though men call us free. #OscarWilde — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 7, 2023

I want freedom for the full expression of my personality. #MahatmaGandhi

I want freedom for the full expression of my personality. #MahatmaGandhi — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 7, 2023

Ask your child for information in a gentle, nonjudgmental way, with specific, clear questions. Instead of How was your day? try What did you do in math class today? Instead of Do you like your teacher? ask What do you like about your teacher? #SusanCain

Ask your child for information in a gentle, nonjudgmental way, with specific, clear questions. Instead of How was your day? try What did you do in math class today? Instead of Do you like your teacher? ask What do you like about your teacher? #SusanCain — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 7, 2023

[The elites] brought us four decades of stagnant wages for most workers, inequalities of income and wealth not seen since the 1920s, the Iraq War, a nineteen-year, inconclusive war in Afghanistan, financial deregulation, the financial crisis of 2008... #MichaelSandel

[The elites] brought us four decades of stagnant wages for most workers, inequalities of income and wealth not seen since the 1920s, the Iraq War, a nineteen-year, inconclusive war in Afghanistan, financial deregulation, the financial crisis of 2008... #MichaelSandel — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 6, 2023

The nineteenth-century focus on female purity had inhibited sexual openness between husband and wife, but it had also accorded women a high moral stature that made it difficult for a man to insist on sex if his wife was unwilling. #StephanieCoontz

The nineteenth-century focus on female purity had inhibited sexual openness between husband and wife, but it had also accorded women a high moral stature that made it difficult for a man to insist on sex if his wife was unwilling. #StephanieCoontz — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 6, 2023

The object of love is not getting something you want but doing something for the well-being of the one you love. #GaryChapman

The object of love is not getting something you want but doing something for the well-being of the one you love. #GaryChapman — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 6, 2023

Forgive yourself. Forgive them. Step out of your history and into the path of your future. My friend, the poet Mark Nepo says that the pain was necessary in order to know the truth. But we don't have to keep the pain alive in order to keep the truth alive. #OprahWinfrey

Forgive yourself. Forgive them. Step out of your history and into the path of your future. My friend, the poet Mark Nepo says that the pain was necessary in order to know the truth. But we don't have to keep the pain alive in order to keep the truth alive. #OprahWinfrey — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 6, 2023

The acquisition of knowledge from books provides an experience different from the Internet. #HenryKissinger

The acquisition of knowledge from books provides an experience different from the Internet. #HenryKissinger — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 6, 2023

Interestingly, scientific experiments today show that if you create an energy pattern outside a chamber in a vacuum state, virtual protons and virtual neutrons will begin to appear. That means, to put it simply, that something is taking form from nothing. #Sadhguru

Interestingly, scientific experiments today show that if you create an energy pattern outside a chamber in a vacuum state, virtual protons and virtual neutrons will begin to appear. That means, to put it simply, that something is taking form from nothing. #Sadhguru — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 5, 2023

Humanism, which privileges the well-being of individual men, women, and children over the glory of the tribe, race, nation, or religion. It is individuals, not groups, who are sentient--who feel pleasure and pain, fulfillment and anguish. #StevenPinker

Humanism, which privileges the well-being of individual men, women, and children over the glory of the tribe, race, nation, or religion. It is individuals, not groups, who are sentient--who feel pleasure and pain, fulfillment and anguish. #StevenPinker — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 5, 2023

The peace researcher John Galtung pointed out that if a newspaper came out once every fifty years, it would not report half a century of celebrity gossip and political scandals. It would report momentous global changes such as the increase in life expectancy. #StevenPinker

The peace researcher John Galtung pointed out that if a newspaper came out once every fifty years, it would not report half a century of celebrity gossip and political scandals. It would report momentous global changes such as the increase in life expectancy. #StevenPinker — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 5, 2023

Precisely because technology is now moving so fast, and parliaments and dictators alike are overwhelmed by data they cannot process quickly enough, present-day politicians are thinking on a far smaller scale than their predecessors a century ago. #YuvalNoahHarari

Precisely because technology is now moving so fast, and parliaments and dictators alike are overwhelmed by data they cannot process quickly enough, present-day politicians are thinking on a far smaller scale than their predecessors a century ago. #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 5, 2023

Seek out games where honesty is the dominant strategy. Then just be yourself. #BrianChristian

Seek out games where honesty is the dominant strategy. Then just be yourself. #BrianChristian — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 5, 2023

The insult, the real reflection on our culture's definition of the role of women, is that as a nation we only noticed something was wrong with women when we saw its effects on their sons. #BettyFriedan

The insult, the real reflection on our culture's definition of the role of women, is that as a nation we only noticed something was wrong with women when we saw its effects on their sons. #BettyFriedan — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 5, 2023

[Kids in strategic detachment] hold the belief that a better alternative exists somewhere and that someday they will find their way to it... [That] does not guarantee that they will never know feelings of powerlessness, but it helps them not to be stuck there #NathanielBranden

[Kids in strategic detachment] hold the belief that a better alternative exists somewhere and that someday they will find their way to it... [That] does not guarantee that they will never know feelings of powerlessness, but it helps them not to be stuck there #NathanielBranden — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 4, 2023

You would become aware that all the activity surrounding you was part of another life totally unrelated to yours, and you would realize that you might never be admitted. In that instance, you were free [...] but nobody would pay attention to you, or care. #QianNing

You would become aware that all the activity surrounding you was part of another life totally unrelated to yours, and you would realize that you might never be admitted. In that instance, you were free [...] but nobody would pay attention to you, or care. #QianNing — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 4, 2023

I wish I can meet my life in the hereafter, but I don't think I will. I just cease to exist just as she has ceased to exist--otherwise the other world would be overpopulated. #LeeKuanYew

I wish I can meet my life in the hereafter, but I don't think I will. I just cease to exist just as she has ceased to exist--otherwise the other world would be overpopulated. #LeeKuanYew — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 4, 2023

...women have, throughout history, mainly been excluded from jobs that required little physical effort, such as the priesthood, law, and politics, while engaging in hard manual labor in the fields... and in the household. #YuvalNoahHarari

...women have, throughout history, mainly been excluded from jobs that required little physical effort, such as the priesthood, law, and politics, while engaging in hard manual labor in the fields... and in the household. #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 4, 2023

All kinds of feelings go on arising and passing--joy, anger, boredom, lust--but once you stop craving particular feelings, you can just accept them for what they are. You live in the present moment instead of fantasising about what might have been. #YuvalNoahHarari

All kinds of feelings go on arising and passing--joy, anger, boredom, lust--but once you stop craving particular feelings, you can just accept them for what they are. You live in the present moment instead of fantasising about what might have been. #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 4, 2023

Don't you think it would be wonderful to get rid of everything and everybody and just go some place where you don't know a soul? #HarukiMurakami

Don't you think it would be wonderful to get rid of everything and everybody and just go some place where you don't know a soul? #HarukiMurakami — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 4, 2023

Until we can receive with an open heart, we're never really giving with an open heart. When we attach judgment to receiving help, we knowingly or unknowingly attach judgment to giving help. #BreneBrown

Until we can receive with an open heart, we're never really giving with an open heart. When we attach judgment to receiving help, we knowingly or unknowingly attach judgment to giving help. #BreneBrown — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 3, 2023

The future is as full of promise as it is fraught with uncertainty. #LeeKuanYew

The future is as full of promise as it is fraught with uncertainty. #LeeKuanYew — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 3, 2023

Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more. #TonyRobbins

Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more. #TonyRobbins — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 3, 2023

One of the systems we [Starbucks] use is called the LATTE method. We Listen to the customer, Acknowledge their complaint, Take action by solving the problem, Thank them, and then Explain why the problem occurred. #CharlesDuhigg

One of the systems we [Starbucks] use is called the LATTE method. We Listen to the customer, Acknowledge their complaint, Take action by solving the problem, Thank them, and then Explain why the problem occurred. #CharlesDuhigg — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 3, 2023

If we are not fully ourselves, truly in the present moment, we miss everything. #ThichNhatHanh

If we are not fully ourselves, truly in the present moment, we miss everything. #ThichNhatHanh — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 3, 2023

A woman who is herself only a sexual object, lives finally in a world of objects, unable to touch in others the individual identity she lacks herself. #BettyFriedan

A woman who is herself only a sexual object, lives finally in a world of objects, unable to touch in others the individual identity she lacks herself. #BettyFriedan — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 3, 2023

To try and fail is at least to learn; to fail to try is to suffer the inestimable loss of what might have been. #BrianChristian

To try and fail is at least to learn; to fail to try is to suffer the inestimable loss of what might have been. #BrianChristian — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 2, 2023

So I disagree with the followers of Marx and those of Adam Smith: the reason free markets work is because they allow people to be lucky, thanks to aggressive trial and error, not by giving rewards or incentives for skill. #NassimNicholasTaleb

So I disagree with the followers of Marx and those of Adam Smith: the reason free markets work is because they allow people to be lucky, thanks to aggressive trial and error, not by giving rewards or incentives for skill. #NassimNicholasTaleb — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 2, 2023

A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat. #LordChesterfield

A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat. #LordChesterfield — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 2, 2023

It is undoubtedly excellent to strive to achieve one's maximum potential, but that should be to please ourselves, not be judged by others #DerrenBrown

It is undoubtedly excellent to strive to achieve one's maximum potential, but that should be to please ourselves, not be judged by others #DerrenBrown — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 2, 2023

It is not clear why a generation which can't accumulate capital should have any great love of capitalism. #DouglasMurray

It is not clear why a generation which can't accumulate capital should have any great love of capitalism. #DouglasMurray — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 2, 2023

And aesthetic judgements, especially literary judgements, are often corrupted in the same way as political ones. #GeorgeOrwell

And aesthetic judgements, especially literary judgements, are often corrupted in the same way as political ones. #GeorgeOrwell — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 2, 2023

A politics emptied of substantive moral engagement makes for an impoverished civic life. It is also an open invitation to narrow, intolerant moralisms. Fundamentalists rush in where liberals fear to tread. #MichaelSandel

A politics emptied of substantive moral engagement makes for an impoverished civic life. It is also an open invitation to narrow, intolerant moralisms. Fundamentalists rush in where liberals fear to tread. #MichaelSandel — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 1, 2023

Americans are trained to wrap positive messages around negative ones, while the French are trained to criticize passionately and provide positive feedback sparingly. #ErinMeyer

Americans are trained to wrap positive messages around negative ones, while the French are trained to criticize passionately and provide positive feedback sparingly. #ErinMeyer — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 1, 2023

Our purpose is self-expression, not self-avoidance or self-justification. Our motive is not to prove our worth but to live our possibilities. #NathanielBranden

Our purpose is self-expression, not self-avoidance or self-justification. Our motive is not to prove our worth but to live our possibilities. #NathanielBranden — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 1, 2023

If you find yourself oscillating between craving and aversion, love and hate, your karma is growing at a rapid pace; your bondage is intensifying. If you have strong likes and dislikes, your suffering is also more intense. #Sadhguru

If you find yourself oscillating between craving and aversion, love and hate, your karma is growing at a rapid pace; your bondage is intensifying. If you have strong likes and dislikes, your suffering is also more intense. #Sadhguru — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 1, 2023

Religions that lose touch with the technological realities of the day lose their ability even to understand the questions being asked. #YuvalNoahHarari