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According to one recent study, only 6 percent of adolescents in romantic relationships say that they got together soon after meeting. #AzizAnsari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 1, 2024

That's why perhaps the most important skill of a skilled thinker is knowing when to trust. #TimUrban — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 1, 2024

Universities, which ought to be forums for open debate, are developing a reputation for dogmatism and intolerance. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 31, 2024

The Internet was born into a world where many people had already lost their sense of connection to each other. The collapse had already been taking place for decades by then. #JohannHari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 31, 2024

The will to believe is the most important ingredient in creating belief in change. #CharlesDuhigg — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 31, 2024

Worry about journal editors impatiently awaiting a promised manuscript never enters the picture. I don't make promises, so I don't have deadlines. As a result, writer's block and I are strangers to each other. As you might expect, that makes my life much happier. #HarukiMurakami — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 31, 2024

Millennials are getting a bad rap these days, as many people erroneously attribute recent campus trends to them. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 30, 2024

We must raise both the ceiling and the floor. #SherylSandberg — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 30, 2024

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes. #Nietzsche — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 30, 2024

Goals are good for setting a direction, but systems are best for making progress. #JamesClear — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 30, 2024

We simply need to believe in the power that's within us, and use it. When we do that, and stop imitating others and competing against them, things begin to work for us. #BenjaminHoff — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 30, 2024

In order to be truly unfuckwithable, you need to lose your need to seek validation or love from others and to judge them when you perceive that they are not giving you what you need. #VishenLakhiani — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 29, 2024

...what's easy shouldn't determine what you do. Don't let difficulty dissuade you from living your best life! #BillPerkins — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 29, 2024

A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people's business. #EricHoffer — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 29, 2024

Disciplined people are better at structuring their lives in a way that does not require heroic willpower and self-control. In other words, they spend less time in tempting situations. #JamesClear — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 29, 2024

It's a paradox of modern times that the more we engage with social media in our virtual lives, the more antisocial we become in reality. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 29, 2024

It is one of history's ironies that Communism, advertised as a classless society, tended to breed a privileged class of feudal proportions. #HenryKissinger — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 28, 2024

People do not get married planning to divorce. Divorce is the result of a lack of preparation for marriage and the failure to learn the skills of working together as teammates in an intimate relationship. #GaryChapman — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 28, 2024

Maturity is not based on talent or any of the mental or physical gifts that help you ace an IQ test or run fast or move gracefully. It is not comparative. It is earned not by being better than other people at something, but by being better than you used to be. #DavidBrooks — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 28, 2024

If a sensation arises, you have a choice whether to react. Once you are able to exercise this choice, you simply experience the sensation for what it is. #Sadhguru — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 28, 2024

Whether you want workers to go on a general strike, women to take possession of their bodies, or oppressed minorities to demand political rights--the first step is to retell their history. #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 28, 2024

Understanding comes through communication, and through understanding we find the way to peace. #RalphSmedley — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 27, 2024

But a country that believes it has only done wrong, or done such a terrible, unalleviated amount of wrong in the past, is likely to become a country that is inclined to doubt its ability to ever do any good in the future. #DouglasMurray — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 27, 2024

Since it is sure of its ability to control the entire domain of the visible and the audible via the laws governing commercial circulation and democratic communication, Empire no longer censures anything. All art, and all thought, is ruined when we accept this... #AlainBadiou — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 27, 2024

Learn--because it's not the knowledge itself that's as important as showing that you have the generic ability to learn and complete schoolwork. #KevinSimler — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 27, 2024

[A man] asserts himself as a pure internality against which no external power can take hold, and he also experiences himself as a thing crushed by the dark weight of other things. #SimonedeBeauvoir — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 26, 2024

Research by Katherine Kinzler and her colleagues indicates that humans are predisposed from an early age to use the original shibboleths--linguistic cues--as markers of group identity and as a basis for social preference. #JoshuaGreene — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 26, 2024

After the central religious and cultural stories of the West were taken out of the culture, and people were encouraged to turn on their own past, the culture became entirely hollowed out [...] how flimsy and empty the ideas are that can flood in to fill their place #DouglasMurray — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 26, 2024

DISCOUNTING POSITIVES: Claiming that the positive things you or others do are trivial, so that you can maintain a negative judgment. That's what wives are supposed to do--so it doesn't count when she's nice to me, or Those successes were easy, so they don't matter. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 26, 2024

It's senseless to have making money as your goal as money has no intrinsic value--its value comes from what it can buy, and it can't buy everything. #RayDalio — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 26, 2024

...the very recommendation to 'follow your heart' was implanted in our minds by a combination of nineteenth-century Romantic myths and twentieth-century consumerist myths. #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 26, 2024

The human brain, according to this view, was designed to deceive itself--in Trivers' words, the better to deceive others. #KevinSimler — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 25, 2024

The single most important way to encourage women and girls to stand up for their rights is education, and we can do far more to promote universal education in poor countries. #NicholasDKristof — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 25, 2024

It follows that the more people we take to be our equals and compare ourselves to, the more people there will be to envy. #AlaindeBotton — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 25, 2024

Unfortunately complaining is one thing Eeyores are not afraid to do. They grudgingly carry their thimbles to the Fountain of Life, then mumble and grumble that they weren't given enough. #BenjaminHoff — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 25, 2024

Joy is present when mother and baby are gazing adoringly into each other's eyes, when a hiker is overwhelmed by beauty in the woods and feels at one with nature, when a gaggle of friends are dancing deliriously in unison. Joy often involves self-forgetting. #DavidBrooks — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 25, 2024

Many religions or cults require you to pay money to their organization. This is an important part of the hook. If you pay for a service, you expect to get your money's worth. If what you are getting is free, you don't make such big demands of it. #PaulArden — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 24, 2024

What Nixon sought throughout the Cold War was a stable international order for a world filled with nuclear weapons. #HenryKissinger — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 24, 2024

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar. #ThichNhatHanh — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 24, 2024

It is wise to take admissions of uncertainty seriously, but declarations of high confidence mainly tell you that an individual has constructed a coherent story in his mind, not necessarily that the story is true. #DanielKahneman — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 24, 2024

It's demeaning when people talk about my looks. I think I usually look like shit, and most people would agree. #JohnnyDepp — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 24, 2024

[About 60% of Japanese in 20s and 30s are] herbivore man. This is a term that has become ubiquitous in Japan over the past few years to describe Japanese men who are very shy and passive and show no interest in sex and romantic relationships #AzizAnsari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 23, 2024

Scheduling chatter is merely one of the many forms of useless banter that makes dating in the digital age so frustrating, especially for women over twenty-five, since they have less patience for constant text exchanges. #AzizAnsari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 23, 2024

Great people are hard to find so make sure you think about how to keep them. #RayDalio — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 23, 2024

We imagine that it might be possible, after a certain age, to place ourselves beyond mockery. We trust that it is an option to lead a good love life without regularly making a complete idiot of ourselves. It isn't. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 23, 2024

Happiness is just your constant state of existence. And this is the end of suffering. #Sadhguru — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 23, 2024

And what I usually find is that so many of the topics I've pegged as boring in my head are actually just foggy to me--like watching episode 17 of a great show, which would be boring if you didn't have the tree trunk of the back story and characters in place. #TimUrban — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 23, 2024

Most of what I know about writing I've learned through running every day. These are practical, physical lessons [...] I know that if I hadn't become a long-distance runner when I became a novelist, my work would have been vastly different. #HarukiMurakami — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 22, 2024

In fine I have written my work not as an essay with which to win the applause of the moment but as a possession for all time. #Thucydides — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 22, 2024

[Young adults] are thrown into a world that is unstructured and uncertain, with few authorities or guardrails except those they are expected to build on their own. Among other things, it becomes phenomenally hard to launch yourself into life. #DavidBrooks — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 22, 2024

...seeking out challenges (rather than eliminating or avoiding everything that feels unsafe), freeing yourself from cognitive distortions (rather than always trusting your initial feelings), and taking a generous view of other people, and looking for nuance... #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 22, 2024

Christians and Muslims who could not agree on religious beliefs could nevertheless agree on a monetary belief, because whereas religion asks us to believe in something, money asks us to believe that other people believe in something. #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 22, 2024

Always at the hands of people who range from the semi-informed to the uninformed. #DouglasMurray — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 21, 2024

Yes, there are benefits to credentialing and sorting students [economic efficiency that results from getting high-skilled workers into important jobs.] But the benefits seem to pale next to the enormous monetary, psychic, and social waste of the education tournament. #RobinHanson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 21, 2024

If you go into every interaction, assuming the culture doesn't matter, your default mechanism will be to view others through your own cultural lens and to judge or misjudge them accordingly. #ErinMeyer — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 21, 2024

They are fairly similar between identical twins reared apart, indicating that they are influenced in part by genes, although they are also influenced by changes in the conditions of one's life or the roles one plays, such as becoming a parent. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 21, 2024

I placed the highest priority on the sort of life that lets me focus on writing, not associating with all the people around me. #HarukiMurakami — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 21, 2024

I believe that someone who lacks a delusional sense of significance will wilt in the face of repeated experiences of multiple small failures and rare successes, the fate of most researchers. #DanielKahneman — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 20, 2024

United Nations report claims that 90 percent of girls and women over the age of three were sexually abused in parts of Liberia during civil war there. #NicholasDKristof — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 20, 2024

The load, or weight, or burden of my neighbor's glory should be laid daily on my back, a load so heavy that only humility can carry it, and the backs of the proud will be broken. #DavidBrooks — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 20, 2024

Ultimately the main idea that lies behind happiness repertoires and techniques is that happier people are not only more productive and efficient workers but, most importantly, better citizens. #EvaIllouz — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 20, 2024

Your primary desire, says Epictetus, should be your desire not to be frustrated by forming desires you won't be able to fulfill. #WilliamBIrvine — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 20, 2024

In a place that produces suicide bombers who say, I want to die and I want more of you to die, anything can happen. #LeeKuanYew — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 19, 2024

And well-being is about the reasons one wishes to be alive. Those reasons matter not just at the end of life, or when debility comes, but all along the way. #AtulGawande — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 19, 2024

Apollo, god of reason and wisdom. He was concerned with patience, thoroughness, duty and logical thinking. He presided over aspects of government, commerce and what we would now call science. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 19, 2024

...tribes have genuine disagreements about how societies should be organized, emphasizing, to different extents, the rights of individuals versus the greater good of the group. Tribal values also differ along other dimensions, such as the role of honor... #JoshuaGreene — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 18, 2024

The unconscious contains desires and feelings that deeply challenge a more comfortable vision of ourselves. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 18, 2024

After living in America for some time, you not only sensed depression but began to understand why so many Americans visited psychiatrists or took drugs to destroy a life that was so superior materialistically. #QianNing — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 18, 2024

Applying pressure on someone to be content when there is no authentic reason to be so is not kindness. It is a form of well-meaning coercion that forces a child to lose connection with their own reality [and] distance themselves from an honest [self] relationship #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 18, 2024

In the recent history of the cosmos, we shared common ancestors, whose progeny became diversely the octopus, the sea bream or evolved gradually into solicitors, psychotherapists and graphic designers. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 17, 2024

If you're confident in what you're doing, then the last thing in the world you're worried about is what other people are doing. #JoshuaBrown — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 17, 2024

...pay attention to what you envy. Jealousy is an ugly emotion, but it tells the truth. You mostly envy those who have what you desire. #SusanCain — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 17, 2024

Natural selection, it was thought, promotes ruthless self-interest. Individuals who grab up all the resources and destroy the competition will survive better, reproduce more often, and thus populate the world with their ruthlessly selfish offspring. #JoshuaGreene — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 17, 2024

In Chinese society this right-wrong consciousness is embodied primarily in the society's nearly subconscious belief in unified thinking, a premise for agreeing on the absolute correctness of an idea. #QianNing — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 17, 2024

Wherever there is great property, there is great inequality. #AdamSmith — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 16, 2024

I had the advantage of an immigrant society. [...] I gave them a common platform in English, equal competition, everybody appointed according to merit, regardless of race, language, culture. That brought about a national solidarity. #LeeKuanYew — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 16, 2024

On several occasions correspondents have asked me why they should trust the scientific consensus on climate change, since it comes out of institutions that brook no dissent. That is why universities have a responsibility to secure the credibility of science... #StevenPinker — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 16, 2024

Art and science do not establish themselves despite failure but through it #SimonedeBeauvoir — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 16, 2024

Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now, take what's left and live it properly. What doesn't transmit light creates its own darkness. #MarcusAurelius — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 16, 2024

I think generally people's thinking process is too bound by convention or analogy to prior experiences. It's rare that people try to think of something on a first principles basis. #TimUrban — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 15, 2024

And Dunbar points out that in our ultrasocial species, success is largely a matter of playing the social game well. It's not what you know, it's who you know. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 15, 2024

The great mob of mankind are the admirers and worshippers, and, what may seem more extraordinary, most frequently the disinterested admirers and worshippers, of wealth and greatness. #AdamSmith — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 15, 2024

When we laugh at a critique, it's a sign that we have understood the critique, that we have acknowledged areas of absurdity and are in the background pleased that someone cares about us enough to bother with our education. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 15, 2024

High creativity is responding to situations without critical thought. #JohnCleese — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 15, 2024

Because true belonging only happens when we present our authentic, imperfect selves to the world, our sense of belonging can never be greater than our level of self-acceptance. #BreneBrown — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 14, 2024

The basis of karma is simple: you are the source of all your baggage. #Sadhguru — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 14, 2024

When we consider what a word stands for, we are dealing with its semantic aspects; when we consider it in relation to other words, we are dealing with its syntactic features. #CWrightMills — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 14, 2024

...we use laughter to gauge and calibrate social boundaries--both behavioral boundaries (norms) and group membership boundaries (who deserves how much of our empathy). But this calibration is a delicate act. #RobinHanson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 14, 2024

Evangelicalism has taken the Extrovert Ideal to its logical extreme...If you don't love Jesus out loud, then it must not be real love. It's not enough to forge your own spiritual connection to the divine; it must be displayed publicly. #SusanCain — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 13, 2024

The second-generation kids of Indians and Chinese [in Malaysia] rush to Europe and the Americas away from race-based policies. #LeeKuanYew — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 13, 2024

You can hide memories, but you can't erase the history that produced them. #HarukiMurakami — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 13, 2024

The suburban housewife--she was the dream image of the young American woman and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. #BettyFriedan — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 13, 2024

O beware, my lord, jealousy is the green eye'd monster that doth mock the meat it feeds on. #Shakespeare — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 12, 2024

It is much harder to honestly ask ourselves whether our lives would be improved were we not to be attached to our devices quite as umbilically, and how much misery they bring us alongside the various conveniences and amusements. Whether we might be more authentic... #DerrenBrown — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 12, 2024

It is as if we need to be reminded of convention in order properly to appreciate the wonder of being unguarded... #AlaindeBotton — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 12, 2024

Once your pride gets involved, you'll fight tooth and nail to maintain your habits. #JamesClear — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 12, 2024

Just how much renunciation of desire does society demand of us versus the degree of gratification it provides? #LauraKipnis — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 12, 2024

...for thousands of years, people have been proclaiming a crisis in marriage and pointing backwards to better days. #StephanieCoontz — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 11, 2024

We aren't overwhelmed by anger whenever we are frustrated; only when we first believed ourselves entitled to a particular satisfaction and then did not receive it. #AlaindeBotton — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 11, 2024

All three men were doing the same work. For the first man, his work was simply cutting stone. For the second, his work was simply a means to eke out a livelihood. For the third, his work was an opportunity to create something beautiful that he cared for deeply. #Sadhguru — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 11, 2024

Every Saddleback member is asked to sign a maturity covenant card promising to adhere to three habits: daily quiet time for reflection and prayer, tithing 10 percent of their income, and membership in a small group. #CharlesDuhigg — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 11, 2024

You can show them what you see, but your showing and their seeing are forever different things. #WilliamMartin — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 10, 2024

They make some sort of feeble stew out of sympathy, compassion, contempt and general indifference, and they call it love. Once you've felt what it means to love as you and I know it--total passion for the total height--you're incapable of anything less. #AynRand — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 10, 2024

Adventure is not outside man; it is within. #DavidBrooks — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 10, 2024

Factfulness is... recognizing that a single perspective can limit your imagination, and remembering that it is better to look at problems from many angles to get a more accurate understanding and find practical solutions. #HansRosling — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 9, 2024

We certainly need good science, but from a political perspective, a good science-fiction movie is worth far more than an article in Science or Nature. #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 9, 2024

...the sense of empowerment that grows when working people are treated not as employees, but as owners who share responsibility for defining the scope and character of their jobs. #BernieSanders — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 9, 2024

Following this line of thought, commitment phobia can be viewed as an aspect of compulsory heterosexuality, one of the main institutionalized descriptions of the ways in which women are systematically humiliated, dismissed, and ignored by men. #EvaIllouz — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 9, 2024

We can remind ourselves of the reasons to strive for good style: to enhance the spread of ideas, to exemplify attention to detail, and to add to the beauty of the world. #StevenPinker — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 9, 2024

The cure for infatuation is to get to know the object of one's desire better. Soon their inevitable defects will be revealed. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 8, 2024

[The first atheistic societies emerged in Europe in the last few decades] are the least efficient societies ever known at turning resources (of which they have a lot) into offspring (of which they have few). #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 8, 2024

What matters is not what we seem to a random group, but what we know we are. #AlaindeBotton — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 8, 2024

Oddly, in their business, the artistic philanthropist had the opportunity to make real--on a large scale--the qualities they subsequently sought to honour in their gifts. Yet very often they did not. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 8, 2024

...human beings have a strong dramatic instinct toward binary thinking, a basic urge to divide things into two distinct groups, with nothing but an empty gap in between. We love to dichotomize. Good versus bad. Heroes versus villains. My country versus the rest. #HansRosling — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 8, 2024

Also taboo among hunter-gatherers was stockpiling and hoarding. For most of our history we didn't collect things, but friendships. This never failed to amaze European explorers, who expressed incredulity at the generosity of the peoples they encountered. #RutgerBregman — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 7, 2024

We unknowingly impute to strangers the nasty comments that we are experts at making to ourselves; our self-image returns to haunt us in the assumed views of others. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 7, 2024

Nietzsche... the Critical Theorists--are morose cultural pessimists who declare that modernity is odious, all statements are paradoxical, works of art are tools of oppression, liberal democracy is the same as fascism, and Western civilization is circling the drain. #StevenPinker — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 7, 2024

A married couple are well suited when both partners usually feel the need for a quarrel at the same time. #JeanRostand — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 7, 2024

We go against our feelings and get out of bed. Why? Because we believe there is something worthwhile to do that day. And normally, before the day is over, we feel good about having gotten up. Our actions preceded our emotions. The same is true with love. #GaryChapman — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 6, 2024