English Quotes

I define judgments--both positive and negative--as life-alienating communication. #MarshallRosenberg — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 4, 2024

All ran to meet their chains thinking they secured their freedom, for although they had enough reason to feel the advantages of political establishment, they did not have enough experience to foresee its dangers. #JeanJacquesRousseau

All ran to meet their chains thinking they secured their freedom, for although they had enough reason to feel the advantages of political establishment, they did not have enough experience to foresee its dangers. #JeanJacquesRousseau — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 4, 2024

Your brain has far more neural circuitry allocated for wanting rewards than for liking them. #JamesClear

Your brain has far more neural circuitry allocated for wanting rewards than for liking them. #JamesClear — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 3, 2024

If the day and the night are such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more starry, more immortal--that is your success. All nature is your congratulation #Thoreau

If the day and the night are such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more starry, more immortal--that is your success. All nature is your congratulation #Thoreau — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 3, 2024

The point of becoming clear and honest about our failings is to recognise that we will contribute substantially to the difficulties we are bound to encounter in the marriage. #TheSchoolOfLife

The point of becoming clear and honest about our failings is to recognise that we will contribute substantially to the difficulties we are bound to encounter in the marriage. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 3, 2024

...differences of talent are as morally arbitrary as differences of class. #MichaelSandel

...differences of talent are as morally arbitrary as differences of class. #MichaelSandel — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 3, 2024

...a private library is not an ego-boosting appendage but a research tool. Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. #NassimNicholasTaleb

...a private library is not an ego-boosting appendage but a research tool. Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. #NassimNicholasTaleb — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 3, 2024

But the moral [Henry David Thoreau] drew was almost identical: to those who are inwardly free, there are riches enough available in a hut. #TheSchoolOfLife

But the moral [Henry David Thoreau] drew was almost identical: to those who are inwardly free, there are riches enough available in a hut. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 2, 2024

Later, [William James] would famously write that the will to believe is the most important ingredient in creating belief in change. And that one of the most important methods for creating that belief was habits. #CharlesDuhigg

Later, [William James] would famously write that the will to believe is the most important ingredient in creating belief in change. And that one of the most important methods for creating that belief was habits. #CharlesDuhigg — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 2, 2024

Suicide is the most common form of death for men under fifty. It's also true that men are more likely than women to have serious problems with alcohol, that men die younger, that the prison population is 95 per cent male #RobertWebb

Suicide is the most common form of death for men under fifty. It's also true that men are more likely than women to have serious problems with alcohol, that men die younger, that the prison population is 95 per cent male #RobertWebb — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 2, 2024

In friendship, we know instinctively how to deploy strategies of wisdom and consolation that we stubbornly refuse to apply to ourselves. #TheSchoolOfLife

In friendship, we know instinctively how to deploy strategies of wisdom and consolation that we stubbornly refuse to apply to ourselves. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 2, 2024

The same confidence that can lead to daring and creativity can lead to self-worship and arrogance. #DavidBrooks

The same confidence that can lead to daring and creativity can lead to self-worship and arrogance. #DavidBrooks — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 2, 2024

...there was the day [the new recruit who does nothing] spent riding the elevators up and down repeatedly. When a coworker saw this and asked if she was thinking again, she replied: it helps to see things from a different perspective. The employees became uneasy. #JennyOdell

...there was the day [the new recruit who does nothing] spent riding the elevators up and down repeatedly. When a coworker saw this and asked if she was thinking again, she replied: it helps to see things from a different perspective. The employees became uneasy. #JennyOdell — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 2, 2024

We talk about social service, service to the people, service to humanity, service to others who are far away, helping to bring peace to the world--but often we forget that it is the very people around us that we must live for first of all. #ThichNhatHanh

We talk about social service, service to the people, service to humanity, service to others who are far away, helping to bring peace to the world--but often we forget that it is the very people around us that we must live for first of all. #ThichNhatHanh — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 1, 2024

It is recognised now that Freud never gave proper attention, even in man, to growth of the ego or self: 'the impulse to master, control or come to self-fulfilling terms with the environment'. #BettyFriedan

It is recognised now that Freud never gave proper attention, even in man, to growth of the ego or self: 'the impulse to master, control or come to self-fulfilling terms with the environment'. #BettyFriedan — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 1, 2024

Limited expertise. Don't claim expertise beyond your field: be humble about what you don't know. Be aware too of the limits of the expertise of others. #HansRosling