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First, they deny that there's something wrong with their life. Then they intensify their efforts to follow the old failing plan. Then they try to treat themselves with some new thrill: They have an affair, drink more, or start doing drugs. Only when all this fails... #DavidBrooks

First, they deny that there's something wrong with their life. Then they intensify their efforts to follow the old failing plan. Then they try to treat themselves with some new thrill: They have an affair, drink more, or start doing drugs. Only when all this fails... #DavidBrooks — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 9, 2025

If you are a sensitive sort, [...] you may be quicker than others to feel sickened by violence and ugliness, and you likely have a very strong conscience. #SusanCain

If you are a sensitive sort, [...] you may be quicker than others to feel sickened by violence and ugliness, and you likely have a very strong conscience. #SusanCain — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 9, 2025

What was [Ben Franklin's] secret? Virtue. Not the sort of uptight, pleasure-hating Puritanism that some people now associate with that word, but a broader kind of virtue that goes back to ancient Greece. #JonathanHaidt

What was [Ben Franklin's] secret? Virtue. Not the sort of uptight, pleasure-hating Puritanism that some people now associate with that word, but a broader kind of virtue that goes back to ancient Greece. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 9, 2025

We shouldn't do things so we can be happy. We should be happy so we can do things. #VishenLakhiani

We shouldn't do things so we can be happy. We should be happy so we can do things. #VishenLakhiani — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 9, 2025

...we are explanation-seeking animals who tend to think that everything has an identifiable cause and grab the most apparent one as the explanation. Yet there may not be a visible because; to the contrary, frequently there is nothing, no even a spectrum... #NassimNicholasTaleb

...we are explanation-seeking animals who tend to think that everything has an identifiable cause and grab the most apparent one as the explanation. Yet there may not be a visible because; to the contrary, frequently there is nothing, no even a spectrum... #NassimNicholasTaleb — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 9, 2025

It is hope--with regard to our careers, our love lives, our children, our politicians, and our planet--that is primarily to blame for angering and embittering us. The incompatibility between the grandeur of our aspirations and the mean reality of our condition... #AlaindeBotton

It is hope--with regard to our careers, our love lives, our children, our politicians, and our planet--that is primarily to blame for angering and embittering us. The incompatibility between the grandeur of our aspirations and the mean reality of our condition... #AlaindeBotton — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 9, 2025

By another definition, pride is building your happiness around your accomplishments, using your work as the measure of your worth. It is believing that you can arrive at fulfillment on your own, driven by your own individual efforts. Pride can come in bloated form. #DavidBrooks

By another definition, pride is building your happiness around your accomplishments, using your work as the measure of your worth. It is believing that you can arrive at fulfillment on your own, driven by your own individual efforts. Pride can come in bloated form. #DavidBrooks — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 8, 2025

For many liberals, diversity has become an unquestioned good--like justice, freedom, and happiness, the more diversity, the better. My research on morality, however, spurred me to question it. #JonathanHaidt

For many liberals, diversity has become an unquestioned good--like justice, freedom, and happiness, the more diversity, the better. My research on morality, however, spurred me to question it. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 8, 2025

At fifteen, I had my mind bent on intellectual learning. At thirty, I was busy and practical. At forty, I had no doubts. At fifty, I started to learn. At sixty, my ear was an obedient organ for the reception of truth. At seventy, I had learnt to follow the five virtues #TheScho…

At fifteen, I had my mind bent on intellectual learning. At thirty, I was busy and practical. At forty, I had no doubts. At fifty, I started to learn. At sixty, my ear was an obedient organ for the reception of truth. At seventy, I had learnt to follow the five virtues #TheScho… — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 8, 2025

As the novelist Frederick Buechner put it, At what points do my talents and deep gladness meet the world's deep need? #DavidBrooks

As the novelist Frederick Buechner put it, At what points do my talents and deep gladness meet the world's deep need? #DavidBrooks — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 8, 2025

In the past, a guy would be thinking [...] I gotta have kids to work on my farm. I need four-year-old kids performing manual labor ASAP. And I need a woman who can make me clothes [...] A woman would think, I better find a dude who's capable on the farm #AzizAnsari

In the past, a guy would be thinking [...] I gotta have kids to work on my farm. I need four-year-old kids performing manual labor ASAP. And I need a woman who can make me clothes [...] A woman would think, I better find a dude who's capable on the farm #AzizAnsari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 8, 2025

Napoleon, that exponent of martial glory, sniffed at England as a nation of shopkeepers. But at the time Britons earned 83 percent more than Frenchmen and enjoyed a third more calories, and we all know what happened at Waterloo. #StevenPinker

Napoleon, that exponent of martial glory, sniffed at England as a nation of shopkeepers. But at the time Britons earned 83 percent more than Frenchmen and enjoyed a third more calories, and we all know what happened at Waterloo. #StevenPinker — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 8, 2025

Men of science, it is widely felt, no longer try to picture reality as a whole or to present a true outline of human destiny. #CWrightMills

Men of science, it is widely felt, no longer try to picture reality as a whole or to present a true outline of human destiny. #CWrightMills — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 7, 2025

We are not so sensible of the greatest Health as of the least Sickness. #BenjaminFranklin

We are not so sensible of the greatest Health as of the least Sickness. #BenjaminFranklin — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 7, 2025

If so few female geniuses are found in history, it is because society denies them any means of expression. #SimonedeBeauvoir

If so few female geniuses are found in history, it is because society denies them any means of expression. #SimonedeBeauvoir — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 7, 2025

Geoffrey Miller notes that most adults have a vocabulary of about sixty thousand words. To build that vocabulary, children must learn ten to twenty words a day between the ages of eighteen months and eighteen years. #DavidBrooks

Geoffrey Miller notes that most adults have a vocabulary of about sixty thousand words. To build that vocabulary, children must learn ten to twenty words a day between the ages of eighteen months and eighteen years. #DavidBrooks — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 7, 2025

Autonomy makes each of us responsible for shaping his own life according to some coherent and distinctive sense of character, conviction, and interest. It allows us to lead our own lives rather than be led along them #RonaldDworkin

Autonomy makes each of us responsible for shaping his own life according to some coherent and distinctive sense of character, conviction, and interest. It allows us to lead our own lives rather than be led along them #RonaldDworkin — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 7, 2025

When I've really been in love with someone, it's not because they looked a certain way or liked a certain TV show or a certain cuisine. It's more because when I watched a certain TV show or ate a certain cuisine with them, it was the most fun thing ever. #AzizAnsari

When I've really been in love with someone, it's not because they looked a certain way or liked a certain TV show or a certain cuisine. It's more because when I watched a certain TV show or ate a certain cuisine with them, it was the most fun thing ever. #AzizAnsari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 6, 2025

I have always believed that scientific research is another domain where a form of optimism is essential to success: I have yet to meet a successful scientist who lacks the ability to exaggerate the importance of what he or she is doing... #DanielKahneman

I have always believed that scientific research is another domain where a form of optimism is essential to success: I have yet to meet a successful scientist who lacks the ability to exaggerate the importance of what he or she is doing... #DanielKahneman — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 6, 2025

[Children] think that if they break rules, even accidentally, something bad will happen to them, even if nobody knows about their transgressions. #JonathanHaidt

[Children] think that if they break rules, even accidentally, something bad will happen to them, even if nobody knows about their transgressions. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 6, 2025

There are no worries about the future. No dwelling on past mistakes. #ThichNhatHanh

There are no worries about the future. No dwelling on past mistakes. #ThichNhatHanh — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 6, 2025

When Catholic France, Italy, Austria and southern Germany developed rapidly, particularly after the Second World War, Christianity, rather than Protestantism, became the magic culture. #HaJoonChang

When Catholic France, Italy, Austria and southern Germany developed rapidly, particularly after the Second World War, Christianity, rather than Protestantism, became the magic culture. #HaJoonChang — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 6, 2025

Would we really want to be in a relationship where the other person reminds us every day of ourselves? Wouldn't it just be like having rich chocolate cake every day? Do we even especially like people who are very much like us? #DerrenBrown

Would we really want to be in a relationship where the other person reminds us every day of ourselves? Wouldn't it just be like having rich chocolate cake every day? Do we even especially like people who are very much like us? #DerrenBrown — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 6, 2025

A life of commitment means saying a thousand noes for the sake of a few precious yeses. #DavidBrooks

A life of commitment means saying a thousand noes for the sake of a few precious yeses. #DavidBrooks — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 5, 2025

If Kindle is upgraded with face recognition and biometric sensors, it can know what made you laugh, what made you sad and what made you angry. Soon, books will read you while you are reading them. #YuvalNoahHarari

If Kindle is upgraded with face recognition and biometric sensors, it can know what made you laugh, what made you sad and what made you angry. Soon, books will read you while you are reading them. #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 5, 2025

We probably have a greater love for those we support than for those who support us. Our vanity carries more weight than our self-interest. #EricHoffer

We probably have a greater love for those we support than for those who support us. Our vanity carries more weight than our self-interest. #EricHoffer — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 5, 2025

It's hard to feel attracted to someone who has abandoned her sense of autonomy. #EstherPerel

It's hard to feel attracted to someone who has abandoned her sense of autonomy. #EstherPerel — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 5, 2025

[W]e all incline in astonishingly personal ways to idiocy and spite #AlaindeBotton

[W]e all incline in astonishingly personal ways to idiocy and spite #AlaindeBotton — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 5, 2025

Metarules (such as the rule that we have a tendency to not learn rules) we don't seem to be good at getting. We scorn the abstract; we scorn it with passion. #NassimNicholasTaleb

Metarules (such as the rule that we have a tendency to not learn rules) we don't seem to be good at getting. We scorn the abstract; we scorn it with passion. #NassimNicholasTaleb — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 5, 2025

In practice, deconstructive approaches to language therefore look very much like nitpicking at words in order to deliberately miss the point. #HelenPluckrose

In practice, deconstructive approaches to language therefore look very much like nitpicking at words in order to deliberately miss the point. #HelenPluckrose — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 4, 2025

We've all wished at times that we couldn't feel emotion, because our emotions often drive us to do stupid shit we later regret. #MarkManson

We've all wished at times that we couldn't feel emotion, because our emotions often drive us to do stupid shit we later regret. #MarkManson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 4, 2025

Entitlement is a double-edged sword (or a double-jawed trap) for kids. On one edge it gives kids all that they don't need--indulgence, dullness, conceit, and laziness; and on the backswing, it takes from them everything they do need--motivation, independence... #RichardEyre

Entitlement is a double-edged sword (or a double-jawed trap) for kids. On one edge it gives kids all that they don't need--indulgence, dullness, conceit, and laziness; and on the backswing, it takes from them everything they do need--motivation, independence... #RichardEyre — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 4, 2025

[Politicians] fail to reflect that it is with liberty as with innocence and virtue; the value is known only to those who possess them, and the taste for them is forfeited when they are forfeited themselves. #JeanJacquesRousseau

[Politicians] fail to reflect that it is with liberty as with innocence and virtue; the value is known only to those who possess them, and the taste for them is forfeited when they are forfeited themselves. #JeanJacquesRousseau — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 4, 2025

The problem that has no name--which is simply the fact that American women are kept from growing to their full human capacities--is taking a far greater toll on the physical and mental health of our country than any known disease. #BettyFriedan

The problem that has no name--which is simply the fact that American women are kept from growing to their full human capacities--is taking a far greater toll on the physical and mental health of our country than any known disease. #BettyFriedan — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 4, 2025

If someone isn't what others want them to be, the others become angry. Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own. #PauloCoelho

If someone isn't what others want them to be, the others become angry. Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own. #PauloCoelho — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 4, 2025

Writing about the circulation of information, Berardi makes a distinction that's especially helpful here, between what he calls connectivity and sensitivity. #JennyOdell

Writing about the circulation of information, Berardi makes a distinction that's especially helpful here, between what he calls connectivity and sensitivity. #JennyOdell — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 3, 2025

Historically, when human beings were pushed toward the precipice of disaster, it was not so much that some were intentionally pushing everybody to hell, but that they firmly believed that only they knew the road to heaven. #QianNing

Historically, when human beings were pushed toward the precipice of disaster, it was not so much that some were intentionally pushing everybody to hell, but that they firmly believed that only they knew the road to heaven. #QianNing — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 3, 2025

Empty and unlimited, she seeks from within her nothingness to attain All. #SimonedeBeauvoir

Empty and unlimited, she seeks from within her nothingness to attain All. #SimonedeBeauvoir — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 3, 2025

Developing countries should not be forced to sell their future for small immediate gains. #HaJoonChang

Developing countries should not be forced to sell their future for small immediate gains. #HaJoonChang — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 3, 2025

Pain does not matter to a man. #ErnestHemingway

Pain does not matter to a man. #ErnestHemingway — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 3, 2025

You do not need to waste your time doing those things that are unnecessary and trifling. You do not have to be rich. You do not need to seek fame or power. What you need is freedom, solidity, peace and joy. You need the time and energy to be able to share these #ThichNhatHanh

You do not need to waste your time doing those things that are unnecessary and trifling. You do not have to be rich. You do not need to seek fame or power. What you need is freedom, solidity, peace and joy. You need the time and energy to be able to share these #ThichNhatHanh — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 3, 2025

Breathing in, I calm body and mind. Breathing out, I smile. Dwelling in the present moment I know this is the only moment. #ThichNhatHanh

Breathing in, I calm body and mind. Breathing out, I smile. Dwelling in the present moment I know this is the only moment. #ThichNhatHanh — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 2, 2025

In order to deny the outrage it is enough to deny the importance of the individual, even though it be at the cost of this collectivity: it is everything, he is only a zero. #SimonedeBeauvoir

In order to deny the outrage it is enough to deny the importance of the individual, even though it be at the cost of this collectivity: it is everything, he is only a zero. #SimonedeBeauvoir — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 2, 2025

People should be beautiful every way, in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts and in their innermost selves. #AntonChekhov

People should be beautiful every way, in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts and in their innermost selves. #AntonChekhov — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 2, 2025

...sex is so natural an explanation for behavior that other reasons, such as wanting to dress creatively for its own sake and wanting to be seen just to be seen, can be hard to fathom. #AngelaChen

...sex is so natural an explanation for behavior that other reasons, such as wanting to dress creatively for its own sake and wanting to be seen just to be seen, can be hard to fathom. #AngelaChen — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 2, 2025

Being a good listener is one of the most important and enchanting life skills anyone can have. #AlaindeBotton

Being a good listener is one of the most important and enchanting life skills anyone can have. #AlaindeBotton — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 2, 2025

When I should have felt real pain, I stifled it. I didn't want to take it on, so I avoided facing up to it. Which is why my heart is so empty now. #HarukiMurakami

When I should have felt real pain, I stifled it. I didn't want to take it on, so I avoided facing up to it. Which is why my heart is so empty now. #HarukiMurakami — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 2, 2025

People get away with enslaving village girls for the same reason that people got away with enslaving blacks two hundred years ago: The victims are perceived as discounted humans. #NicholasDKristof

People get away with enslaving village girls for the same reason that people got away with enslaving blacks two hundred years ago: The victims are perceived as discounted humans. #NicholasDKristof — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 1, 2025

But why do speakers need to be relevant in conversation? If speakers deliver high-quality information, why should listeners care whether the information is related to the current topic? A plausible answer is that it's simply too easy to rattle off memorized trivia. #RobinHanson

But why do speakers need to be relevant in conversation? If speakers deliver high-quality information, why should listeners care whether the information is related to the current topic? A plausible answer is that it's simply too easy to rattle off memorized trivia. #RobinHanson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 1, 2025

[I wonder] who in the world am I? And very seriously at that. If you took away my career as a plastic surgeon, & the happy environment I'm living in, & threw me out in the world, with no explanation, & with everything stripped away--what in the world would I be? #HarukiMurakami

[I wonder] who in the world am I? And very seriously at that. If you took away my career as a plastic surgeon, & the happy environment I'm living in, & threw me out in the world, with no explanation, & with everything stripped away--what in the world would I be? #HarukiMurakami — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 1, 2025

Suffering arises from craving; the only way to be fully liberated from suffering is to be fully liberated from craving; and the only way to be liberated from craving is to train the mind to experience reality as it is. #YuvalNoahHarari

Suffering arises from craving; the only way to be fully liberated from suffering is to be fully liberated from craving; and the only way to be liberated from craving is to train the mind to experience reality as it is. #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 1, 2025

...a neo-Catholic approach that holds that there are indeed intimate and deep reasons to care about what things look like: that we need to have the right sort of streets, train stations, libraries, kitchens and clothes in order to be the right sort of people. #TheSchoolOfLife

...a neo-Catholic approach that holds that there are indeed intimate and deep reasons to care about what things look like: that we need to have the right sort of streets, train stations, libraries, kitchens and clothes in order to be the right sort of people. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 1, 2025

Just as practices like logging and large-scale farming decimate the land, an overemphasis on performance turns what was once a dense and thriving landscape of individual and communal thought into a Monsanto farm whose production slowly destroys the soil... #JennyOdell

Just as practices like logging and large-scale farming decimate the land, an overemphasis on performance turns what was once a dense and thriving landscape of individual and communal thought into a Monsanto farm whose production slowly destroys the soil... #JennyOdell — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 1, 2025

Boiling water will soften a potato but harden an egg. You can't control whether you're a potato or an egg, but you can decide to play a game where it's better to be hard or soft. #JamesClear

Boiling water will soften a potato but harden an egg. You can't control whether you're a potato or an egg, but you can decide to play a game where it's better to be hard or soft. #JamesClear — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 31, 2025

Over the course of our lives, we make millions and millions of decisions that are essentially bets, some large and some small. It pays to think about how we make them because they are what ultimately determine the quality of our lives. #RayDalio

Over the course of our lives, we make millions and millions of decisions that are essentially bets, some large and some small. It pays to think about how we make them because they are what ultimately determine the quality of our lives. #RayDalio — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 31, 2025

Remember: In the end, the business of life is the acquisition of memories. So what are you waiting for? #BillPerkins

Remember: In the end, the business of life is the acquisition of memories. So what are you waiting for? #BillPerkins — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 31, 2025

It proved politically useful to describe as fascist people who were not Fascists , just as it proved politically useful to describe as racist people who were not racists. #DouglasMurray

It proved politically useful to describe as fascist people who were not Fascists , just as it proved politically useful to describe as racist people who were not racists. #DouglasMurray — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 31, 2025

It's not attractive in the same way art is. The bunker reflects a kind of desperation of an animal worried about its survival, rather than the easy assurance of an animal with more resources than it knows what to do with. Thus impracticality is a feature of all art #KevinSimler

It's not attractive in the same way art is. The bunker reflects a kind of desperation of an animal worried about its survival, rather than the easy assurance of an animal with more resources than it knows what to do with. Thus impracticality is a feature of all art #KevinSimler — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 31, 2025

Both in explaining the past and in predicting the future, we focus on the causal role of skill and neglect the role of luck. We are therefore prone to an illusion of control. #DanielKahneman

Both in explaining the past and in predicting the future, we focus on the causal role of skill and neglect the role of luck. We are therefore prone to an illusion of control. #DanielKahneman — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 31, 2025

Being poorly integrated in the universe of humanity and hardly able to adapt herself therein, she, like the child, is able to see it objectively; instead of being interested solely in her grasp on things, she looks for their significance #SimonedeBeauvoir

Being poorly integrated in the universe of humanity and hardly able to adapt herself therein, she, like the child, is able to see it objectively; instead of being interested solely in her grasp on things, she looks for their significance #SimonedeBeauvoir — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 30, 2025

The Aztec word for the psilocybin mushroom was teonanacatl, which means literally god's flesh; when it was eaten in religious ceremonies, it gave many the experience of a direct encounter with God. #JonathanHaidt

The Aztec word for the psilocybin mushroom was teonanacatl, which means literally god's flesh; when it was eaten in religious ceremonies, it gave many the experience of a direct encounter with God. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 30, 2025

So convenient a thing is it to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind to do. #JonathanHaidt

So convenient a thing is it to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind to do. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 30, 2025

The big problem is how hard it is to achieve equal relationships in a society whose work policies, school schedules, and social programs were constructed on the assumption that male breadwinner families would always be the norm. #StephanieCoontz

The big problem is how hard it is to achieve equal relationships in a society whose work policies, school schedules, and social programs were constructed on the assumption that male breadwinner families would always be the norm. #StephanieCoontz — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 30, 2025

For each traumatic event that happened to a child, they were two to four times more likely to grow up to be an addicted adult. #JohannHari

For each traumatic event that happened to a child, they were two to four times more likely to grow up to be an addicted adult. #JohannHari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 30, 2025

When Provine studied 1,200 episodes of laughter overheard in public settings, his biggest surprise was finding that speakers laugh more than listeners--about 50 percent more, in fact. #KevinSimler

When Provine studied 1,200 episodes of laughter overheard in public settings, his biggest surprise was finding that speakers laugh more than listeners--about 50 percent more, in fact. #KevinSimler — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 30, 2025

Pasteur said, like all great discoverers, he knew something about accidental discoveries. The best way to get maximal exposure is to keep researching. Collect opportunities #NassimNicholasTaleb

Pasteur said, like all great discoverers, he knew something about accidental discoveries. The best way to get maximal exposure is to keep researching. Collect opportunities #NassimNicholasTaleb — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 29, 2025

Governing is more like sailing in a storm: shift your weight one way when the boat tilts to starboard, shift your weight the other way when it tilts to port--adjust and adjust and adjust to circumstances to keep the semblance and equanimity of an even keel. #DavidBrooks

Governing is more like sailing in a storm: shift your weight one way when the boat tilts to starboard, shift your weight the other way when it tilts to port--adjust and adjust and adjust to circumstances to keep the semblance and equanimity of an even keel. #DavidBrooks — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 29, 2025

If there are this many visible parts of my body that are worse than normal people's, then if I start considering other aspects--personality, brains, athleticism, things of this sort--the list will be endless. #HarukiMurakami

If there are this many visible parts of my body that are worse than normal people's, then if I start considering other aspects--personality, brains, athleticism, things of this sort--the list will be endless. #HarukiMurakami — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 29, 2025

Ruskin's interest in beauty and in its possession led him to five central conclusions. First, beauty was the result of a number of complex factors that affected the mind both psychologically and visually. #AlaindeBotton

Ruskin's interest in beauty and in its possession led him to five central conclusions. First, beauty was the result of a number of complex factors that affected the mind both psychologically and visually. #AlaindeBotton — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 29, 2025

Each moment is a chance for us to make peace with the world, to make peace possible for the world, to make happiness possible for the world. #ThichNhatHanh

Each moment is a chance for us to make peace with the world, to make peace possible for the world, to make happiness possible for the world. #ThichNhatHanh — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 29, 2025

So, this book was not written by a Sufi mystic, or even by a skeptic in the ancient or medieval sense, or even (we will see) in a philosophical sense, but by a practitioner whose principal aim is not to be a sucker in things that matter, period. #NassimNicholasTaleb

So, this book was not written by a Sufi mystic, or even by a skeptic in the ancient or medieval sense, or even (we will see) in a philosophical sense, but by a practitioner whose principal aim is not to be a sucker in things that matter, period. #NassimNicholasTaleb — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 29, 2025

Many of the insights of the saint stem from his experience as a sinner. #EricHoffer

Many of the insights of the saint stem from his experience as a sinner. #EricHoffer — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 28, 2025

In order to be able to know if we are making progress toward our goal, it's essential that everyone in the organization knows the current state of work. #GeneKim

In order to be able to know if we are making progress toward our goal, it's essential that everyone in the organization knows the current state of work. #GeneKim — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 28, 2025

Happiness tends to be individual; we measure it by asking, Are you happy? Joy tends to be self-transcending. #DavidBrooks

Happiness tends to be individual; we measure it by asking, Are you happy? Joy tends to be self-transcending. #DavidBrooks — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 28, 2025

In the absence of experience, insight doesn't work. One cannot rush children to conclusions; one cannot spare them time. They will need to make many of the same mistakes (...a few new ones too) and waste a good part of their lives finding out what we already know #TheSchoolOfLife

In the absence of experience, insight doesn't work. One cannot rush children to conclusions; one cannot spare them time. They will need to make many of the same mistakes (...a few new ones too) and waste a good part of their lives finding out what we already know #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 28, 2025

Whoever offers to another a bargain of any kind, proposes to do this. Give me that which I want, and you shall have this which you want [...] and it is in this manner that we obtain from one another the far greater part of those good offices. #AdamSmith

Whoever offers to another a bargain of any kind, proposes to do this. Give me that which I want, and you shall have this which you want [...] and it is in this manner that we obtain from one another the far greater part of those good offices. #AdamSmith — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 28, 2025

The U.S. Marine Corps, for example, advertises itself as a place to build strength and character. In doing so, it's not advertising only to potential recruits; it's also reminding civilians that the people who serve in the Marines have strength and character. #RobinHanson

The U.S. Marine Corps, for example, advertises itself as a place to build strength and character. In doing so, it's not advertising only to potential recruits; it's also reminding civilians that the people who serve in the Marines have strength and character. #RobinHanson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 28, 2025

Peace occurs when you don't turn your observations into problems. The first step in any behavior is observation. You notice a cue, a it of information, an event. If you do not desire to act on what you observe , then you are at peace. #JamesClear

Peace occurs when you don't turn your observations into problems. The first step in any behavior is observation. You notice a cue, a it of information, an event. If you do not desire to act on what you observe , then you are at peace. #JamesClear — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 27, 2025

...the betrayals of body and mind that threaten to erase our character and memory remain among our most awful tortures. #AtulGawande

...the betrayals of body and mind that threaten to erase our character and memory remain among our most awful tortures. #AtulGawande — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 27, 2025

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears. #MarcusAurelius

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears. #MarcusAurelius — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 27, 2025

...1966, when Mao Zedong began warning about the rising threat of infiltration by pro-capitalist enemies. Zealous college students responded by forming the Red Guards to find and punish enemies of the revolution. Universities across the country were shut down... #JonathanHaidt

...1966, when Mao Zedong began warning about the rising threat of infiltration by pro-capitalist enemies. Zealous college students responded by forming the Red Guards to find and punish enemies of the revolution. Universities across the country were shut down... #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 27, 2025

People don't adopt their ideologies at random, or by soaking up whatever ideas are around them. #JonathanHaidt

People don't adopt their ideologies at random, or by soaking up whatever ideas are around them. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 27, 2025

...instead of struggling to erase what are referred to as negative emotions, we can learn to use them in positive ways [...] like this: while pounding on the piano keys may produce noise, removing them doesn't exactly further the creation of music. #BenjaminHoff

...instead of struggling to erase what are referred to as negative emotions, we can learn to use them in positive ways [...] like this: while pounding on the piano keys may produce noise, removing them doesn't exactly further the creation of music. #BenjaminHoff — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 27, 2025

History of luxury could more accurately be read as a record of emotional trauma. It is the legacy of those who have felt pressured by the disdain of others to add an extraordinary amount to their bare selves in order to signal that they too may lay a claim to love. #AlaindeBotton

History of luxury could more accurately be read as a record of emotional trauma. It is the legacy of those who have felt pressured by the disdain of others to add an extraordinary amount to their bare selves in order to signal that they too may lay a claim to love. #AlaindeBotton — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 26, 2025

Teaching children to read rather than buying and selling companies nevertheless lay claim to a legitimately meaningful life. We should not let false notions of prestige interfere with our attempts to focus on the aspects of our life stories that actually satisfy #TheSchoolOfLife

Teaching children to read rather than buying and selling companies nevertheless lay claim to a legitimately meaningful life. We should not let false notions of prestige interfere with our attempts to focus on the aspects of our life stories that actually satisfy #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 26, 2025

[Parents] need to be there to provide living examples of how to cope with the problems of the world so that their children can develop unconscious models in their heads. #DavidBrooks

[Parents] need to be there to provide living examples of how to cope with the problems of the world so that their children can develop unconscious models in their heads. #DavidBrooks — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 26, 2025

If one partner forfeited their career, concentrating instead on raising the family, they may now feel underdeveloped, under-confident in the marketplace to which they may now wish to return, unsure of what they can offer but eager for change. #DerrenBrown

If one partner forfeited their career, concentrating instead on raising the family, they may now feel underdeveloped, under-confident in the marketplace to which they may now wish to return, unsure of what they can offer but eager for change. #DerrenBrown — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 26, 2025

The first mistake is never the one that ruins you. It's the spiral of repeated mistakes that follows. The problem is not slipping up; the problem is thinking that if you cannot do something perfectly, then you shouldn't do it at all... #JamesClear

The first mistake is never the one that ruins you. It's the spiral of repeated mistakes that follows. The problem is not slipping up; the problem is thinking that if you cannot do something perfectly, then you shouldn't do it at all... #JamesClear — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 26, 2025

The truth of the gender inequality in sexual freedom, and the importance of teaching women to honor their sexual desires, has distorted into the belief that female sexual liberation only looks like one thing [i.e.] the opposite of what women's lives looked like before #AngelaChen

The truth of the gender inequality in sexual freedom, and the importance of teaching women to honor their sexual desires, has distorted into the belief that female sexual liberation only looks like one thing [i.e.] the opposite of what women's lives looked like before #AngelaChen — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 26, 2025

Boys are more physically aggressive. Girls, in contrast, are more relationally aggressive; they try to hurt their rivals' relationships, reputations, and social status--[e.g.] by using social media to make sure other girls know who is intentionally being left out #JonathanHaidt

Boys are more physically aggressive. Girls, in contrast, are more relationally aggressive; they try to hurt their rivals' relationships, reputations, and social status--[e.g.] by using social media to make sure other girls know who is intentionally being left out #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 25, 2025

I've had this tendency ever since I was young, when, given a choice, I much preferred reading books on my own or concentrating on listening to music over being with someone else. I could always think of things to do by myself. #HarukiMurakami

I've had this tendency ever since I was young, when, given a choice, I much preferred reading books on my own or concentrating on listening to music over being with someone else. I could always think of things to do by myself. #HarukiMurakami — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 25, 2025

An ignorant mind is precisely not a spotless, empty vessel, but one that's filled with the clutter of irrelevant or misleading life experiences, theories, facts, intuitions, strategies, algorithms, heuristics, metaphors, and hunches... #StevenNovella

An ignorant mind is precisely not a spotless, empty vessel, but one that's filled with the clutter of irrelevant or misleading life experiences, theories, facts, intuitions, strategies, algorithms, heuristics, metaphors, and hunches... #StevenNovella — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 25, 2025

There is really only one question you ever need to direct at someone to work out whether or not they are a good person, and that is, with deliberate simplicity: Do you think you are a good person? And to this there is only one acceptable answer. [No] #TheSchoolOfLife

There is really only one question you ever need to direct at someone to work out whether or not they are a good person, and that is, with deliberate simplicity: Do you think you are a good person? And to this there is only one acceptable answer. [No] #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 25, 2025

Reflect and remind yourself that an accurate criticism is the most valuable feedback you can receive. #RayDalio

Reflect and remind yourself that an accurate criticism is the most valuable feedback you can receive. #RayDalio — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 25, 2025

On the North American plains in the 1930s, a Kiowa Indian woman commented to a researcher that a woman can always get another husband, but she has only one brother. #StephanieCoontz

On the North American plains in the 1930s, a Kiowa Indian woman commented to a researcher that a woman can always get another husband, but she has only one brother. #StephanieCoontz — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 25, 2025

Science requires courage--the courage to face reality and accept its findings, even if they upset us or are disruptive to our comfortable ideology. #StevenNovella

Science requires courage--the courage to face reality and accept its findings, even if they upset us or are disruptive to our comfortable ideology. #StevenNovella — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 24, 2025

And you must be cautious, because making your life better means adopting a lot of responsibility, and that takes more effort and care than living stupidly in pain and remaining arrogant, deceitful and resentful. #JordanPeterson

And you must be cautious, because making your life better means adopting a lot of responsibility, and that takes more effort and care than living stupidly in pain and remaining arrogant, deceitful and resentful. #JordanPeterson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 24, 2025

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. #Thoreau

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. #Thoreau — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 24, 2025

In war there is no substitute for victory. #GeneralDouglasMacArthur

In war there is no substitute for victory. #GeneralDouglasMacArthur — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 24, 2025

Letting off steam makes people angrier, not calmer. Pennebaker discovered that it's not about steam; it's about sense making. The people in his studies who used their writing time to vent got no benefit. #JonathanHaidt

Letting off steam makes people angrier, not calmer. Pennebaker discovered that it's not about steam; it's about sense making. The people in his studies who used their writing time to vent got no benefit. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 24, 2025

As long as you find something beautiful, good, and true to believe in and abide by, you have the equivalent of God in your life. #ThichNhatHanh

As long as you find something beautiful, good, and true to believe in and abide by, you have the equivalent of God in your life. #ThichNhatHanh — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 24, 2025

After the rings, the priest should just say, Enjoy it, bing-bongs. Due to our brain's tendency toward hedonic adaptation, you won't feel quite this giddy in a few years. All right, where's the pigs in a blanket? I'm outta here. #AzizAnsari

After the rings, the priest should just say, Enjoy it, bing-bongs. Due to our brain's tendency toward hedonic adaptation, you won't feel quite this giddy in a few years. All right, where's the pigs in a blanket? I'm outta here. #AzizAnsari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 23, 2025

People die only once. They have no experience to draw on. #AtulGawande

People die only once. They have no experience to draw on. #AtulGawande — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 23, 2025

Pride deludes us into thinking that we are the authors of our own lives. #DavidBrooks

Pride deludes us into thinking that we are the authors of our own lives. #DavidBrooks — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 23, 2025

I have seen men and women in remote Turkish country villages who were beautiful, not for their physical attributes but for their serenity and glow of innocence that usually only children have. #PaulArden

I have seen men and women in remote Turkish country villages who were beautiful, not for their physical attributes but for their serenity and glow of innocence that usually only children have. #PaulArden — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 23, 2025

Society as it was then, by explicit denial of education and independence, prevented women from realising their full potential, or from attaining those interests and ideals that might stimulated their growth. #BettyFriedan

Society as it was then, by explicit denial of education and independence, prevented women from realising their full potential, or from attaining those interests and ideals that might stimulated their growth. #BettyFriedan — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 23, 2025

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition. #AdamSmith

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition. #AdamSmith — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 23, 2025

The natural inclination of a child is to take pleasure in the use of the mind no less than of the body. The child's primary business is learning. It is also the primary entertainment. #NathanielBranden

The natural inclination of a child is to take pleasure in the use of the mind no less than of the body. The child's primary business is learning. It is also the primary entertainment. #NathanielBranden — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 22, 2025

[Postmodern ways] to knowledge inflate a small, almost banal kernel of truth--that we are limited in our ability to know and must express knowledge through language, concepts and categories--to insist that all claims to truth are value-laden constructs of culture. #HelenPluckrose

[Postmodern ways] to knowledge inflate a small, almost banal kernel of truth--that we are limited in our ability to know and must express knowledge through language, concepts and categories--to insist that all claims to truth are value-laden constructs of culture. #HelenPluckrose — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 22, 2025

Above the level of self-actualization in Maslow's hierarchy of needs, they suggest the existence in people of a transcendent desire to see and help other beings achieve their potential. #AtulGawande

Above the level of self-actualization in Maslow's hierarchy of needs, they suggest the existence in people of a transcendent desire to see and help other beings achieve their potential. #AtulGawande — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 22, 2025

Marwick and boyd describe how context collapse creates a lowest-common-denominator philosophy of sharing [that] limits users to topics that are safe for all possible readers. #JennyOdell

Marwick and boyd describe how context collapse creates a lowest-common-denominator philosophy of sharing [that] limits users to topics that are safe for all possible readers. #JennyOdell — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 22, 2025

Starving children have no liberties. #YuvalNoahHarari

Starving children have no liberties. #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 22, 2025

Study me as much as you like, you will never know me. For I differ a hundred ways from what you see me to be. #Rumi

Study me as much as you like, you will never know me. For I differ a hundred ways from what you see me to be. #Rumi — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 22, 2025

[Both Kant and Bentham] believe in parsimony. They both distrust intuitions and gut feelings, which they see as obstacles to good reasoning. And they both shun the particular in favor of the abstract #JonathanHaidt