English Quotes

But in some great souls, who consider themselves as citizens of the world, and forcing the imaginary barriers that separate people from people... #JeanJacquesRousseau — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 27, 2025

Is it possible, in the final analysis, for one human being to achieve perfect understanding of another? We can invest enormous time and energy [...] We convince ourselves that we know the other person well, but do we really know anything important about anyone? #HarukiMurakami

Is it possible, in the final analysis, for one human being to achieve perfect understanding of another? We can invest enormous time and energy [...] We convince ourselves that we know the other person well, but do we really know anything important about anyone? #HarukiMurakami — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 26, 2025

If there's any time that deserves courage and relentless optimism, it's now. #GeneKim

If there's any time that deserves courage and relentless optimism, it's now. #GeneKim — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 26, 2025

Multitasking Makes You Stupid. Doing more than one thing at a time makes you slower and worse at both tasks. Don't do it. If you think this doesn't apply to you, you're wrong--it does. #JeffSutherland

Multitasking Makes You Stupid. Doing more than one thing at a time makes you slower and worse at both tasks. Don't do it. If you think this doesn't apply to you, you're wrong--it does. #JeffSutherland — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 26, 2025

In the markets and in life, to be successful one should bet on the upside that comes from a) evolution that leads to productivity improvements, but not so aggressively that b) cycles and bumps along the way knock you out of the game. #RayDalio

In the markets and in life, to be successful one should bet on the upside that comes from a) evolution that leads to productivity improvements, but not so aggressively that b) cycles and bumps along the way knock you out of the game. #RayDalio — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 26, 2025

Human beings all know that they are going to die, and so human cultures go to great lengths to construct systems of meaning that dignify life and convince people that their lives have more meaning than those of the animals that die all around them. #JonathanHaidt

Human beings all know that they are going to die, and so human cultures go to great lengths to construct systems of meaning that dignify life and convince people that their lives have more meaning than those of the animals that die all around them. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 26, 2025

A mission of the news industry is to speak truth to power and highlight things like holding people accountable, so I think that even if you're looking at it from that perspective. I think a lot of the stuff is like it's generally has this very critical tone to it #MarkZuckerberg

A mission of the news industry is to speak truth to power and highlight things like holding people accountable, so I think that even if you're looking at it from that perspective. I think a lot of the stuff is like it's generally has this very critical tone to it #MarkZuckerberg — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 26, 2025

The path to confidence is not to banish fears that one might be silly; it is to not let knowledge of one's silliness become grounds for a refusal to act. #TheSchoolOfLife

The path to confidence is not to banish fears that one might be silly; it is to not let knowledge of one's silliness become grounds for a refusal to act. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 25, 2025

Thus the redwood is locked in an evolutionary arms race [...] with itself. It grows tall because other redwoods are tall, and if it doesn't throw most of its effort into growing upward as fast as possible, it will literally wither and die in the shadows of its rivals #RobinHanson

Thus the redwood is locked in an evolutionary arms race [...] with itself. It grows tall because other redwoods are tall, and if it doesn't throw most of its effort into growing upward as fast as possible, it will literally wither and die in the shadows of its rivals #RobinHanson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 25, 2025

The global empire being forged before our eyes is not governed by any particular state or ethnic group. Much like the Late Roman Empire, it is ruled by a multi-ethnic elite, and is held together by a common culture and common interests. #YuvalNoahHarari

The global empire being forged before our eyes is not governed by any particular state or ethnic group. Much like the Late Roman Empire, it is ruled by a multi-ethnic elite, and is held together by a common culture and common interests. #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 25, 2025

You will seek understanding and reconciliation, and not to prove your own perception as the only logical way to interpret what has happened. That is mature love--love to which we aspire if we seek a growing marriage. #GaryChapman

You will seek understanding and reconciliation, and not to prove your own perception as the only logical way to interpret what has happened. That is mature love--love to which we aspire if we seek a growing marriage. #GaryChapman — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 25, 2025

As I see it, the modern myth of true love involves these beliefs: True love is passionate love that never fades; if you are in true love, you should marry that person; if love ends, you should leave that person because it was not true love #JonathanHaidt

As I see it, the modern myth of true love involves these beliefs: True love is passionate love that never fades; if you are in true love, you should marry that person; if love ends, you should leave that person because it was not true love #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 25, 2025

You have no compelling moral intuitions to guide you in solving that problem. Your moral feelings are attached to frames, to descriptions of reality rather than to reality itself. #DanielKahneman

You have no compelling moral intuitions to guide you in solving that problem. Your moral feelings are attached to frames, to descriptions of reality rather than to reality itself. #DanielKahneman — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 24, 2025

Character is built in the course of your inner confrontation. Character is a set of dispositions, desires, and habits that are slowly engraved during the struggle against your own weakness. #DavidBrooks

Character is built in the course of your inner confrontation. Character is a set of dispositions, desires, and habits that are slowly engraved during the struggle against your own weakness. #DavidBrooks — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 24, 2025

If the past is a foreign country, it is a shockingly violent one. It is easy to forget how dangerous life used to be, how deeply brutality was once woven into the fabric of daily existence. #StevenPinker

If the past is a foreign country, it is a shockingly violent one. It is easy to forget how dangerous life used to be, how deeply brutality was once woven into the fabric of daily existence. #StevenPinker — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 24, 2025

To make good taste more widespread, what matters above all are efforts to diminish the desperate lives in which lapses of taste invariably have their origins. #TheSchoolOfLife

To make good taste more widespread, what matters above all are efforts to diminish the desperate lives in which lapses of taste invariably have their origins. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 24, 2025

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another. #NapoleonHill

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another. #NapoleonHill — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 24, 2025

Europe is committing suicide. Or at least its leaders have decided to commit suicide. Whether the European people choose to go along with this is, naturally, another matter. #DouglasMurray

Europe is committing suicide. Or at least its leaders have decided to commit suicide. Whether the European people choose to go along with this is, naturally, another matter. #DouglasMurray — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 23, 2025

...our hivishness can blind us to other moral concerns. Our bee-like nature facilitates altruism, heroism, war, and genocide. #JonathanHaidt

...our hivishness can blind us to other moral concerns. Our bee-like nature facilitates altruism, heroism, war, and genocide. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 23, 2025

This is because most tasks are goal-directed. Extroverts appear to allocate most of their cognitive capacity to the goal at hand, while introverts use up capacity by monitoring how the task is going. #SusanCain

This is because most tasks are goal-directed. Extroverts appear to allocate most of their cognitive capacity to the goal at hand, while introverts use up capacity by monitoring how the task is going. #SusanCain — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 23, 2025

Passionate love does not turn into companionate love. Passionate love and companionate love are two separate processes, and they have different time courses. #JonathanHaidt

Passionate love does not turn into companionate love. Passionate love and companionate love are two separate processes, and they have different time courses. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 23, 2025

When we drift into a life without meaning, we soon become a pack of symptoms and pathologies; and without any feeling of significance, many choose to end their lives altogether. #DerrenBrown

When we drift into a life without meaning, we soon become a pack of symptoms and pathologies; and without any feeling of significance, many choose to end their lives altogether. #DerrenBrown — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 23, 2025

If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask what seat! Just get on. #SherylSandberg

If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask what seat! Just get on. #SherylSandberg — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 23, 2025

It's little strange, perhaps, to make this claim at such a late date, but Gatsby really is an outstanding novel. I never get tired of it, no matter how many times I read it. It's the kind of a novel that nourishes you as you read #HarukiMurakami

It's little strange, perhaps, to make this claim at such a late date, but Gatsby really is an outstanding novel. I never get tired of it, no matter how many times I read it. It's the kind of a novel that nourishes you as you read #HarukiMurakami — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 22, 2025

There is little reason to believe that previously colonized people have any use for a postcolonial Theory or decoloniality that argues that math is a tool of Western imperialism, that sees alphabetical literacy as colonial technology and postcolonial appropriation #HelenPluckrose

There is little reason to believe that previously colonized people have any use for a postcolonial Theory or decoloniality that argues that math is a tool of Western imperialism, that sees alphabetical literacy as colonial technology and postcolonial appropriation #HelenPluckrose — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 22, 2025

A major reason for the mistrust is the universities' suffocating left-wing monoculture, with its punishment of students and professors who question dogmas on gender, race, culture, genetics, colonialism, and sexual identity and orientation. #StevenPinker

A major reason for the mistrust is the universities' suffocating left-wing monoculture, with its punishment of students and professors who question dogmas on gender, race, culture, genetics, colonialism, and sexual identity and orientation. #StevenPinker — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 22, 2025

We have come to a clear realization of the fact that true individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. #BernieSanders

We have come to a clear realization of the fact that true individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. #BernieSanders — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 22, 2025

One of the big tasks of civilisation is to teach us how to better enjoy life. #TheSchoolOfLife

One of the big tasks of civilisation is to teach us how to better enjoy life. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 22, 2025

The starting-point of critical elaboration is the consciousness of what one really is, and is 'knowing thyself' as a product of the historical processes to date, which has deposited in you an infinity of traces, without leaving an inventory. #AntonioGramsci

The starting-point of critical elaboration is the consciousness of what one really is, and is 'knowing thyself' as a product of the historical processes to date, which has deposited in you an infinity of traces, without leaving an inventory. #AntonioGramsci — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 21, 2025

We focus on our goal, anchor on our plan, and neglect relevant base rates, exposing ourselves to the planning fallacy. We focus on what we want to do and can do, neglecting the plans and skills of others. #DanielKahneman

We focus on our goal, anchor on our plan, and neglect relevant base rates, exposing ourselves to the planning fallacy. We focus on what we want to do and can do, neglecting the plans and skills of others. #DanielKahneman — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 21, 2025

Contributive justice, by contrast, is not neutral about human flourishing or the best way to live. #MichaelSandel

Contributive justice, by contrast, is not neutral about human flourishing or the best way to live. #MichaelSandel — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 21, 2025

The Psychological Mind is made up of three separate brains: Human, Chimp and Computer. You are the Human. Your Chimp is an emotional thinking machine. Your Computer is a storage area and automatic functioning machine. Any one of them can take complete control... #StevePeters

The Psychological Mind is made up of three separate brains: Human, Chimp and Computer. You are the Human. Your Chimp is an emotional thinking machine. Your Computer is a storage area and automatic functioning machine. Any one of them can take complete control... #StevePeters — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 21, 2025

Please don't wait until the doctors tell you that you are going to have a baby to begin to take care of it. It is already there... Can you tell me that you cannot smile? Think of the baby, and smile for him, for her, for the future generations. #ThichNhatHanh

Please don't wait until the doctors tell you that you are going to have a baby to begin to take care of it. It is already there... Can you tell me that you cannot smile? Think of the baby, and smile for him, for her, for the future generations. #ThichNhatHanh — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 21, 2025

We should dare to believe that we are in solitude not because there is anything wrong with us but because we are noble of spirit; because our ideals of sociability are high. #TheSchoolOfLife

We should dare to believe that we are in solitude not because there is anything wrong with us but because we are noble of spirit; because our ideals of sociability are high. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 21, 2025

Sophisticated people tend to scorn. They are afraid that such enthusiasms might be evidence of a failure to acknowledge or understand the awful dimensions of the world. #TheSchoolOfLife

Sophisticated people tend to scorn. They are afraid that such enthusiasms might be evidence of a failure to acknowledge or understand the awful dimensions of the world. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 20, 2025

We largely persist in modelling our sense of what other people are like--and of what might be going on in their heads--on our experience of ourselves. We find it remarkably difficult to imagine clearly and calmly that others might not be very much like us... #TheSchoolOfLife

We largely persist in modelling our sense of what other people are like--and of what might be going on in their heads--on our experience of ourselves. We find it remarkably difficult to imagine clearly and calmly that others might not be very much like us... #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 20, 2025

...it's important not to confuse our two tragedies... our moral instincts do well with the Tragedy of the Commons (Me vs. Us), but not so well with the Tragedy of Commonsense Morality (Us vs. Them). #JoshuaGreene

...it's important not to confuse our two tragedies... our moral instincts do well with the Tragedy of the Commons (Me vs. Us), but not so well with the Tragedy of Commonsense Morality (Us vs. Them). #JoshuaGreene — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 20, 2025

The route to tolerance and patient good humour is to realise that one simply is, where it counts, irredeemably alone. #TheSchoolOfLife

The route to tolerance and patient good humour is to realise that one simply is, where it counts, irredeemably alone. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 20, 2025

In the absence of experience, insight doesn't work. #TheSchoolOfLife

In the absence of experience, insight doesn't work. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 20, 2025

If chess is about the decisive battle, wei qi is about the protracted campaign. The chess player aims for total victory. The wei qi player seeks relative advantage. #HenryKissinger

If chess is about the decisive battle, wei qi is about the protracted campaign. The chess player aims for total victory. The wei qi player seeks relative advantage. #HenryKissinger — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 20, 2025

Now online dating is almost a prerequisite for a modern single. #AzizAnsari

Now online dating is almost a prerequisite for a modern single. #AzizAnsari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 19, 2025

Is it really too much, in the twenty-first century, in the wealthiest country on earth, to begin creating an economy in which people actually have some power over what they do for forty hours or more a week? #BernieSanders

Is it really too much, in the twenty-first century, in the wealthiest country on earth, to begin creating an economy in which people actually have some power over what they do for forty hours or more a week? #BernieSanders — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 19, 2025

What most people seek in life, especially when young, is not happiness but an intensity that reaches into the core. We want to be involved in some important pursuit that involves hardship and is worthy of that hardship. #DavidBrooks

What most people seek in life, especially when young, is not happiness but an intensity that reaches into the core. We want to be involved in some important pursuit that involves hardship and is worthy of that hardship. #DavidBrooks — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 19, 2025

(When asked what he thought of Western civilization): 'I think it would be a good idea.' #MahatmaGandhi

(When asked what he thought of Western civilization): 'I think it would be a good idea.' #MahatmaGandhi — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 19, 2025

Meaning and purpose simply emerge from the coherence, and people can get on with the business of living. #JonathanHaidt

Meaning and purpose simply emerge from the coherence, and people can get on with the business of living. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 19, 2025

As cognitive scientists have emphasized in recent years, cognition is embodied; you think with your body, not only with your brain. #DanielKahneman

As cognitive scientists have emphasized in recent years, cognition is embodied; you think with your body, not only with your brain. #DanielKahneman — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 18, 2025

...the many and subtle ways that humans try to cheat by exploiting the fragility of norm enforcement, largely by being discreet about bad behavior. #KevinSimler

...the many and subtle ways that humans try to cheat by exploiting the fragility of norm enforcement, largely by being discreet about bad behavior. #KevinSimler — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 18, 2025

The wave does not need to die to become water. She is already water. #ThichNhatHanh

The wave does not need to die to become water. She is already water. #ThichNhatHanh — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 18, 2025

It became clear to me that people want to believe they are on a mission from God, or that they are fighting for some more secular good (animals, fetuses, women's rights), and you can't have much of a mission without good allies and a good enemy. #JonathanHaidt

It became clear to me that people want to believe they are on a mission from God, or that they are fighting for some more secular good (animals, fetuses, women's rights), and you can't have much of a mission without good allies and a good enemy. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 18, 2025

Self-knowledge is like lost innocence; however unsettling you find it, it can never be 'unthought' or 'unknown'. #MichaelSandel

Self-knowledge is like lost innocence; however unsettling you find it, it can never be 'unthought' or 'unknown'. #MichaelSandel — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 18, 2025

The intellect, which is based on memory, is a wonderful tool. However, it can only inform; it cannot transform. #Sadhguru

The intellect, which is based on memory, is a wonderful tool. However, it can only inform; it cannot transform. #Sadhguru — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 17, 2025

What we learn from history is that people don't learn from history. #WarrenBuffett

What we learn from history is that people don't learn from history. #WarrenBuffett — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 17, 2025

The kind of self-image we may be best advised to seek, then, is not of ourselves as beautiful winners (as we are often told we should), but one wherein our strengths and weaknesses are realistically appraised with neither self-aggrandisement nor abnegation... #DerrenBrown

The kind of self-image we may be best advised to seek, then, is not of ourselves as beautiful winners (as we are often told we should), but one wherein our strengths and weaknesses are realistically appraised with neither self-aggrandisement nor abnegation... #DerrenBrown — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 17, 2025

We own our house without a mortgage, which is the worst financial decision we've ever made but the best money decision we've ever made. #JoshuaBrown

We own our house without a mortgage, which is the worst financial decision we've ever made but the best money decision we've ever made. #JoshuaBrown — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 17, 2025

[For sick people] it's by definition invariably the others who are to blame, the others who are cruel, sinful, lacking in judgement and mistaken. And their job is to take these impure people down and correct their evils in the fire of their own righteousness. #TheSchoolOfLife

[For sick people] it's by definition invariably the others who are to blame, the others who are cruel, sinful, lacking in judgement and mistaken. And their job is to take these impure people down and correct their evils in the fire of their own righteousness. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 17, 2025

The higher our self-esteem, the more ambitious we tend to be, not necessarily in a career or financial sense, but in terms of what we hope to experience in life--emotionally, creatively and spiritually. #NathanielBranden

The higher our self-esteem, the more ambitious we tend to be, not necessarily in a career or financial sense, but in terms of what we hope to experience in life--emotionally, creatively and spiritually. #NathanielBranden — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 16, 2025

...since at least 1899, when Thorstein Veblen published his landmark book The Theory of the Leisure Class. [Conspicuous consumption] remains, however, an underappreciated idea, and explains a lot more of our consumer behavior than most people realize. #KevinSimler

...since at least 1899, when Thorstein Veblen published his landmark book The Theory of the Leisure Class. [Conspicuous consumption] remains, however, an underappreciated idea, and explains a lot more of our consumer behavior than most people realize. #KevinSimler — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 16, 2025

A central aspect to quality time is togetherness. I do not mean proximity... Togetherness has to do with focused attention. #GaryChapman

A central aspect to quality time is togetherness. I do not mean proximity... Togetherness has to do with focused attention. #GaryChapman — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 16, 2025

The high achievers have been driven to act not simply from talent or creativity, energy and skill (though these are no doubt present as well) but from a primordial sense that there is something shameful about them in their basic state... #TheSchoolOfLife

The high achievers have been driven to act not simply from talent or creativity, energy and skill (though these are no doubt present as well) but from a primordial sense that there is something shameful about them in their basic state... #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 16, 2025

Americans need to engage in thoughtful introspection, similar to what the Chinese went through after Cultural Revolution. A small window of opportunity for Americans to do that was available after their defect in the Vietnam War. #QianNing

Americans need to engage in thoughtful introspection, similar to what the Chinese went through after Cultural Revolution. A small window of opportunity for Americans to do that was available after their defect in the Vietnam War. #QianNing — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 16, 2025

The only way for a woman, as for a man, to find herself, to know herself as a person, is by creative work of her own. #BettyFriedan

The only way for a woman, as for a man, to find herself, to know herself as a person, is by creative work of her own. #BettyFriedan — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 15, 2025

Employees were asked to fill out a Reflect on Privilege checklist and told they should commit to holding yourself and colleagues accountable to consistently celebrate diversity and take swift action against non-inclusive behaviors. #TimUrban

Employees were asked to fill out a Reflect on Privilege checklist and told they should commit to holding yourself and colleagues accountable to consistently celebrate diversity and take swift action against non-inclusive behaviors. #TimUrban — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 15, 2025

Love is like organized crime. It changes the structure of marriage game so that the equilibrium becomes the outcome that works for everybody. #BrianChristian

Love is like organized crime. It changes the structure of marriage game so that the equilibrium becomes the outcome that works for everybody. #BrianChristian — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 15, 2025

The decentralization helped Indonesia a lot but shifting powers into the hands of the decision-makers. #LeeKuanYew

The decentralization helped Indonesia a lot but shifting powers into the hands of the decision-makers. #LeeKuanYew — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 15, 2025

Gen-Ys are delusional; Most people are not special--otherwise special wouldn't mean anything. Even right now, most of Gen-Ys reading this are thinking, Good point. But I actually am one of the few special ones--and this is the problem. #TimUrban

Gen-Ys are delusional; Most people are not special--otherwise special wouldn't mean anything. Even right now, most of Gen-Ys reading this are thinking, Good point. But I actually am one of the few special ones--and this is the problem. #TimUrban — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 15, 2025

This turn from character ethics to quandary ethics has turned moral education away from virtues and toward moral reasoning. If morality is about dilemmas, then moral education is training in problem solving. #JonathanHaidt

This turn from character ethics to quandary ethics has turned moral education away from virtues and toward moral reasoning. If morality is about dilemmas, then moral education is training in problem solving. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 15, 2025

For centuries, marriage did much of the work that markets and governments do today. #StephanieCoontz

For centuries, marriage did much of the work that markets and governments do today. #StephanieCoontz — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 14, 2025

We've built a culture in which most technological 'innovation' is merely figuring out how to scale diversions in new, more efficient (and more intrusive) ways. As the venture capitalist Peter Thiel once said, 'We wanted flying cars, instead we got Twitter.' #MarkManson

We've built a culture in which most technological 'innovation' is merely figuring out how to scale diversions in new, more efficient (and more intrusive) ways. As the venture capitalist Peter Thiel once said, 'We wanted flying cars, instead we got Twitter.' #MarkManson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 14, 2025

At home, you decide how you spend your time, how you share your space, and how you manage your possessions. Away from home, you don't. This loss of freedom was what people like Lou Sanders and Wilson's mother, Jessie, dreaded #AtulGawande

At home, you decide how you spend your time, how you share your space, and how you manage your possessions. Away from home, you don't. This loss of freedom was what people like Lou Sanders and Wilson's mother, Jessie, dreaded #AtulGawande — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 14, 2025

...the luxury of a technologically advanced society with science, history, journalism, and their infrastructure of truth-seeking, including archival records, digital datasets, high-tech instruments, and communities of editing, fact-checking, and peer review. #StevenPinker

...the luxury of a technologically advanced society with science, history, journalism, and their infrastructure of truth-seeking, including archival records, digital datasets, high-tech instruments, and communities of editing, fact-checking, and peer review. #StevenPinker — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 14, 2025

When we deny ourselves the ability to feel pain for a purpose, we deny ourselves the ability to feel any purpose in our life at all. #MarkManson

When we deny ourselves the ability to feel pain for a purpose, we deny ourselves the ability to feel any purpose in our life at all. #MarkManson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 14, 2025

When people bring a reverential mindset and take the drugs in a safe and supportive setting, as is done in the initiation rites of some traditional cultures, these drugs can be catalysts for spiritual and personal growth. #JonathanHaidt

When people bring a reverential mindset and take the drugs in a safe and supportive setting, as is done in the initiation rites of some traditional cultures, these drugs can be catalysts for spiritual and personal growth. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 13, 2025

If we believe that people shouldn't have unwanted sex with strangers and that strangers are not entitled to sex, we should believe that people shouldn't have unwanted sex with partners and that partners, no matter how loving or good, are not entitled to sex either. #AngelaChen

If we believe that people shouldn't have unwanted sex with strangers and that strangers are not entitled to sex, we should believe that people shouldn't have unwanted sex with partners and that partners, no matter how loving or good, are not entitled to sex either. #AngelaChen — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 13, 2025

More than a century after Nietzsche pronounced Him dead, God seems to be making a comeback. But this is a mirage. God is dead--it's just taking a while to get rid of the body. #YuvalNoahHarari

More than a century after Nietzsche pronounced Him dead, God seems to be making a comeback. But this is a mirage. God is dead--it's just taking a while to get rid of the body. #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 13, 2025

The word sadhguru, as I often point out, means an uneducated guru. #Sadhguru

The word sadhguru, as I often point out, means an uneducated guru. #Sadhguru — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 13, 2025

...through debates about what money should and should not buy. The fairness objection asks about the inequality that market choices may reflect; the corruption objection asks about the attitudes and norms that market relations may damage or dissolve. #MichaelSandel

...through debates about what money should and should not buy. The fairness objection asks about the inequality that market choices may reflect; the corruption objection asks about the attitudes and norms that market relations may damage or dissolve. #MichaelSandel — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 13, 2025

Tame it though we may try, sex has a recurring tendency to wreak havoc across our lives: it leads us to destroy our relationships, threatens our productivity and compels us to stay up too late in nightclubs talking to people whom we don't like but... wish to touch. #AlaindeBotton

Tame it though we may try, sex has a recurring tendency to wreak havoc across our lives: it leads us to destroy our relationships, threatens our productivity and compels us to stay up too late in nightclubs talking to people whom we don't like but... wish to touch. #AlaindeBotton — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 13, 2025

It is easy to measure how much money we are making. It's much harder to notice how much calm we have lost. #TheSchoolOfLife

It is easy to measure how much money we are making. It's much harder to notice how much calm we have lost. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 12, 2025

[22%] who identified as very liberal said they thought the police shot at least [10,000] unarmed black men in a year. Among self-identified liberals, fully [40%] thought the figure was between [1,000] and [10,000]. The actual figure was somewhere around [10]. #DouglasMurray

[22%] who identified as very liberal said they thought the police shot at least [10,000] unarmed black men in a year. Among self-identified liberals, fully [40%] thought the figure was between [1,000] and [10,000]. The actual figure was somewhere around [10]. #DouglasMurray — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 12, 2025

True belonging and self-worth are not goods; we don't negotiate their value with the world. The truth about who we are lives in our hearts. Our call to courage is to protect our wild heart against constant evaluation, especially our own. #BreneBrown

True belonging and self-worth are not goods; we don't negotiate their value with the world. The truth about who we are lives in our hearts. Our call to courage is to protect our wild heart against constant evaluation, especially our own. #BreneBrown — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 12, 2025

Being told we simply have to love someone for all that they are, or else think of ourselves as bad people, is asking for the impossible. How could someone never want to change any part of us if they know us properly? Do #TheSchoolOfLife

Being told we simply have to love someone for all that they are, or else think of ourselves as bad people, is asking for the impossible. How could someone never want to change any part of us if they know us properly? Do #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 12, 2025

Those who are power hungry... desire control over others so that every selfish whim of hedonism can be immediately gratified... But good people are ambitious instead because they are possessed by the desire to solve genuine, serious problems. #JordanPeterson

Those who are power hungry... desire control over others so that every selfish whim of hedonism can be immediately gratified... But good people are ambitious instead because they are possessed by the desire to solve genuine, serious problems. #JordanPeterson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 12, 2025

The Three Kinds of Pride are: (1) thinking I am better than the other(s); (2) thinking I am worse than the other(s); and (3) thinking I am just as good as the other(s). #ThichNhatHanh

The Three Kinds of Pride are: (1) thinking I am better than the other(s); (2) thinking I am worse than the other(s); and (3) thinking I am just as good as the other(s). #ThichNhatHanh — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 11, 2025

[Early New England mill owners] tried to reassure parents of the safety and propriety of letting their daughters work in their businesses by having all-female workforces, often overseen by older women who in effect were chaperons... #ThomasSowell

[Early New England mill owners] tried to reassure parents of the safety and propriety of letting their daughters work in their businesses by having all-female workforces, often overseen by older women who in effect were chaperons... #ThomasSowell — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 11, 2025

In the 54 years (Charlie Munger and I) have worked together, we have never forgone an attractive purchase because of the macro or political environment, or the views of other people. In fact, these subjects never come up when we make decisions. #WarrenBuffett

In the 54 years (Charlie Munger and I) have worked together, we have never forgone an attractive purchase because of the macro or political environment, or the views of other people. In fact, these subjects never come up when we make decisions. #WarrenBuffett — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 11, 2025

[Donating to a good cause] says to our associates, Look, I'm willing to spend my resources for the benefit of others. I'm playing a positive-sum, cooperative game with society. This helps explain why generosity is so important for those who aspire to leadership. #RobinHanson

[Donating to a good cause] says to our associates, Look, I'm willing to spend my resources for the benefit of others. I'm playing a positive-sum, cooperative game with society. This helps explain why generosity is so important for those who aspire to leadership. #RobinHanson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 11, 2025

A person who embraces a calling doesn't take a direct route to self-fulfillment. #DavidBrooks

A person who embraces a calling doesn't take a direct route to self-fulfillment. #DavidBrooks — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 11, 2025

The extended family, the community, and religion may indeed have limited our freedom, sexual and otherwise, but in return they offered us a much-needed sense of belonging. #EstherPerel

The extended family, the community, and religion may indeed have limited our freedom, sexual and otherwise, but in return they offered us a much-needed sense of belonging. #EstherPerel — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 10, 2025

I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career. #GloriaSteinem

I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career. #GloriaSteinem — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 10, 2025

The authors are right to push back hard against the cultivation of fragility and victimhood, and to defend free speech as essential to the mission of higher education. #JonathanHaidt

The authors are right to push back hard against the cultivation of fragility and victimhood, and to defend free speech as essential to the mission of higher education. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 10, 2025

Psychologist Eckhard Hess described the pupil of the eye as a window to the soul. I reread it recently and again found it inspiring. #DanielKahneman

Psychologist Eckhard Hess described the pupil of the eye as a window to the soul. I reread it recently and again found it inspiring. #DanielKahneman — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 10, 2025

Social harmony can be rewoven only by slowly recommitting to relationships and rebuilding trust. #DavidBrooks

Social harmony can be rewoven only by slowly recommitting to relationships and rebuilding trust. #DavidBrooks — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 10, 2025

As far as we can tell from a purely scientific viewpoint, human life has absolutely no meaning. Humans are the outcome of blind evolutionary processes that operate without goal or purpose. Our actions are not part of some divine cosmic plan #YuvalNoahHarari

As far as we can tell from a purely scientific viewpoint, human life has absolutely no meaning. Humans are the outcome of blind evolutionary processes that operate without goal or purpose. Our actions are not part of some divine cosmic plan #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 10, 2025

And once you understand that habits can change, you have the freedom and the responsibility to remake them. Once you understand that habits can be rebuilt, the power of habit becomes easier to grasp and the only option left is to get to work. #CharlesDuhigg

And once you understand that habits can change, you have the freedom and the responsibility to remake them. Once you understand that habits can be rebuilt, the power of habit becomes easier to grasp and the only option left is to get to work. #CharlesDuhigg — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 9, 2025

[Life's] a movie we walk into well after its opening scene, and we will have to step out long before most of the story lines reach their conclusions. We [are] aware that we need to know a great deal if we are to understand the few confusing minutes that we do watch #JonathanHaidt

[Life's] a movie we walk into well after its opening scene, and we will have to step out long before most of the story lines reach their conclusions. We [are] aware that we need to know a great deal if we are to understand the few confusing minutes that we do watch #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 9, 2025

I didn't start running because somebody asked me to become a runner. Just like I didn't become a novelist because someone asked me to. One day, out of the blue, I wanted to write a novel. And one day, out of the blue, I started to run-simply because I wanted to. #HarukiMurakami

I didn't start running because somebody asked me to become a runner. Just like I didn't become a novelist because someone asked me to. One day, out of the blue, I wanted to write a novel. And one day, out of the blue, I started to run-simply because I wanted to. #HarukiMurakami — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 9, 2025

I spend so much time on the Internet...I feel like I'm a million pages into the worst book ever, and I'm never going to stop reading. #AzizAnsari

I spend so much time on the Internet...I feel like I'm a million pages into the worst book ever, and I'm never going to stop reading. #AzizAnsari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 9, 2025

I don't think it's a coincidence that this crisis in paying attention has taken place at the same time as the worst crisis of democracy since the 1930s. People who can't focus will be more drawn to simplistic authoritarian solutions--and less likely to see clearly... #JohannHari

I don't think it's a coincidence that this crisis in paying attention has taken place at the same time as the worst crisis of democracy since the 1930s. People who can't focus will be more drawn to simplistic authoritarian solutions--and less likely to see clearly... #JohannHari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 9, 2025

Count the significant events, the technological changes, and the inventions that have taken place in our environment since you were born and compare them to what was expected before their advent. How many of them came on a schedule? #NassimNicholasTaleb

Count the significant events, the technological changes, and the inventions that have taken place in our environment since you were born and compare them to what was expected before their advent. How many of them came on a schedule? #NassimNicholasTaleb — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 9, 2025

In a society that trades in military metaphors when talking about illness--when cancer patients become warriors and survivors and cells foreign invaders--the idea of foregoing even the sliver of a chance for more time can feel like premature surrender #AnitaHannig

In a society that trades in military metaphors when talking about illness--when cancer patients become warriors and survivors and cells foreign invaders--the idea of foregoing even the sliver of a chance for more time can feel like premature surrender #AnitaHannig — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 8, 2025

[If we] distort or deny any explanation that harks back to our hidden motives[, key] facts will remain taboo, and we'll forever be mystified by our own thoughts and actions. It's only by confronting the elephant, then, that we can begin to see what's really going on. #KevinSimler

[If we] distort or deny any explanation that harks back to our hidden motives[, key] facts will remain taboo, and we'll forever be mystified by our own thoughts and actions. It's only by confronting the elephant, then, that we can begin to see what's really going on. #KevinSimler — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 8, 2025

He took over, and he said: 'If I have to shoot 200,000 students to save China from another 100 years of disorder, so be it.'--Recalling how former Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping dealt with the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests #LeeKuanYew

He took over, and he said: 'If I have to shoot 200,000 students to save China from another 100 years of disorder, so be it.'--Recalling how former Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping dealt with the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests #LeeKuanYew — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 8, 2025

Rescuing girls from brothels is the easy part... The challenge is keeping them from returning. The stigma that girls feel in their communities after being freed, coupled with drug dependencies or threats from pimps, often lead to return to the re-light district. #NicholasDKristof

Rescuing girls from brothels is the easy part... The challenge is keeping them from returning. The stigma that girls feel in their communities after being freed, coupled with drug dependencies or threats from pimps, often lead to return to the re-light district. #NicholasDKristof — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 8, 2025

Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made. #DavidBrooks

Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made. #DavidBrooks — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 8, 2025

We should have greater respect for the way we are built. Not being able to be in the moment isn't the sign that we are strange or defective but rather that we have decided to be rightly faithful to ourselves. #TheSchoolOfLife

We should have greater respect for the way we are built. Not being able to be in the moment isn't the sign that we are strange or defective but rather that we have decided to be rightly faithful to ourselves. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 8, 2025

I did the best I could with what I knew; now that I know better, I will do better. #MayaAngelou

I did the best I could with what I knew; now that I know better, I will do better. #MayaAngelou — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 7, 2025

For married women [in the US] who can cope with the 'oops' baby, the pill is a good option. But for everyone else it doesn't deliver what it's actually supposed to. And yet it was effective enough to change social norms drastically. #LouisePerry

For married women [in the US] who can cope with the 'oops' baby, the pill is a good option. But for everyone else it doesn't deliver what it's actually supposed to. And yet it was effective enough to change social norms drastically. #LouisePerry — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 7, 2025

The more closely we analyse what we consider 'sexy', the more clearly we will understand that eroticism is the feeling of excitement we experience at finding another human being who shares our values and our sense of the meaning of existence. #AlaindeBotton

The more closely we analyse what we consider 'sexy', the more clearly we will understand that eroticism is the feeling of excitement we experience at finding another human being who shares our values and our sense of the meaning of existence. #AlaindeBotton — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 7, 2025

...by focusing so intently on race and by objecting to color blindness--the refusal to attach social significance to race--critical race Theory threatens to undo the social taboo against evaluating people by their race. #HelenPluckrose

...by focusing so intently on race and by objecting to color blindness--the refusal to attach social significance to race--critical race Theory threatens to undo the social taboo against evaluating people by their race. #HelenPluckrose — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 7, 2025

Most people, in fact, will not take trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to accept the first story they hear. #Thucydides

Most people, in fact, will not take trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to accept the first story they hear. #Thucydides — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 7, 2025

....the reason things will seem unbearable is not because they are hard but because we are soft. #WilliamBIrvine

....the reason things will seem unbearable is not because they are hard but because we are soft. #WilliamBIrvine — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 7, 2025

All history is contemporary history. #BenedettoCroce

All history is contemporary history. #BenedettoCroce — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 6, 2025

...art of travel seems naturally to sustain a number of questions neither so simple nor so trivial, and whose study might in modest ways contribute to an understanding of what the Greek philosophers beautifully termed eudaimonia, or 'human flourishing'. #AlaindeBotton

...art of travel seems naturally to sustain a number of questions neither so simple nor so trivial, and whose study might in modest ways contribute to an understanding of what the Greek philosophers beautifully termed eudaimonia, or 'human flourishing'. #AlaindeBotton — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 6, 2025

Sometimes I feel so--I don't know--lonely. The kind of helpless feeling when everything you're used to has been ripped away. Like there's no more gravity, and I'm left to drift in outer space with no idea where I'm going' Like a little lost Sputnik?' I guess so. #HarukiMurakami

Sometimes I feel so--I don't know--lonely. The kind of helpless feeling when everything you're used to has been ripped away. Like there's no more gravity, and I'm left to drift in outer space with no idea where I'm going' Like a little lost Sputnik?' I guess so. #HarukiMurakami — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 6, 2025

Our romantic options are unprecedented and our tools to sort and communicate with them are staggering. And that raises the question: Why are so many people frustrated? #AzizAnsari

Our romantic options are unprecedented and our tools to sort and communicate with them are staggering. And that raises the question: Why are so many people frustrated? #AzizAnsari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 6, 2025

The press today is an army with carefully organized weapons, the journalists its officers, the readers its soldiers. The reader neither knows nor is supposed to know the purposes for which he is used and the role he is to play. #OswaldSpengler

The press today is an army with carefully organized weapons, the journalists its officers, the readers its soldiers. The reader neither knows nor is supposed to know the purposes for which he is used and the role he is to play. #OswaldSpengler — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 6, 2025

Too many people throw themselves at the same area because they can't think of anything more innovative to do than to start yet another airline, mobile phone company or supermarket chain, to the distress of all participants. #TheSchoolOfLife

Too many people throw themselves at the same area because they can't think of anything more innovative to do than to start yet another airline, mobile phone company or supermarket chain, to the distress of all participants. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 6, 2025

Take one ancient attachment system, mix with an equal measure of caregiving system, throw in a modified mating system and voila, that's romantic love. I seem to have lost something here; romantic love is so much more than the sum of its parts. #JonathanHaidt

Take one ancient attachment system, mix with an equal measure of caregiving system, throw in a modified mating system and voila, that's romantic love. I seem to have lost something here; romantic love is so much more than the sum of its parts. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 5, 2025

If you're in tune with The Way Things Work, then they work the way they need to, no matter what you may think about it at the time. Later on you can look back and say, Oh, now I understand. That had to happen so that those could happen... #BenjaminHoff

If you're in tune with The Way Things Work, then they work the way they need to, no matter what you may think about it at the time. Later on you can look back and say, Oh, now I understand. That had to happen so that those could happen... #BenjaminHoff — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 5, 2025

[Children] go through a phase in which many rules take on a kind of sacredness and unchangeability. During this phase, children believe in immanent justice--justice that is inherent in an act itself. #JonathanHaidt

[Children] go through a phase in which many rules take on a kind of sacredness and unchangeability. During this phase, children believe in immanent justice--justice that is inherent in an act itself. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 5, 2025

[Life] lessons needed to be learned, just as its laws needed to be followed; then all would go well. Rather than turn away from the world of dust, Lao-tse advised others to join the dust of the world. What he saw operating behind everything [...] Tao, the Way. #BenjaminHoff

[Life] lessons needed to be learned, just as its laws needed to be followed; then all would go well. Rather than turn away from the world of dust, Lao-tse advised others to join the dust of the world. What he saw operating behind everything [...] Tao, the Way. #BenjaminHoff — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 5, 2025

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. #WinstonChurchill

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. #WinstonChurchill — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 5, 2025

There is no such thing as a hurt that is too small to matter when emotional closeness is at stake. #AlaindeBotton

There is no such thing as a hurt that is too small to matter when emotional closeness is at stake. #AlaindeBotton — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 4, 2025

The heart, in a way, has to be selfish for its own preservation. So, don't let people tell you that you're selfish and wrong to follow your own heart. #VishenLakhiani

The heart, in a way, has to be selfish for its own preservation. So, don't let people tell you that you're selfish and wrong to follow your own heart. #VishenLakhiani — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 4, 2025

You can usually tell whether a new writer's work is going to last by whether or not the style has a sense of rhythm. [...] I think that someone who writes without rhythm lacks the talent to be a writer. #HarukiMurakami

You can usually tell whether a new writer's work is going to last by whether or not the style has a sense of rhythm. [...] I think that someone who writes without rhythm lacks the talent to be a writer. #HarukiMurakami — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 4, 2025

It doesn't matter [that] there was honor in America's acknowledgment of moral wrong in the area of race. An acknowledgement of wrong was an acknowledgment of wrong, and it brought a loss of moral authority--and, thus, adult authority--despite the good it achieved. #ShelbySteele

It doesn't matter [that] there was honor in America's acknowledgment of moral wrong in the area of race. An acknowledgement of wrong was an acknowledgment of wrong, and it brought a loss of moral authority--and, thus, adult authority--despite the good it achieved. #ShelbySteele — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 4, 2025

Although the lowest level of personality is mostly about the elephant, the life story is written primarily by the rider. You create your story in consciousness as you interpret your own behavior, and as you listen to other people's thoughts about you. #JonathanHaidt

Although the lowest level of personality is mostly about the elephant, the life story is written primarily by the rider. You create your story in consciousness as you interpret your own behavior, and as you listen to other people's thoughts about you. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 4, 2025

So please do not resent me, my privileges make you better off than you would otherwise be, the inequality you find galling is for your own good. #MichaelSandel

So please do not resent me, my privileges make you better off than you would otherwise be, the inequality you find galling is for your own good. #MichaelSandel — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 4, 2025

Karma simply means we have created the blueprint for our lives. It means we are the makers of our own fate. When we say This is my karma, we are actually saying I am responsible for my life. #Sadhguru

Karma simply means we have created the blueprint for our lives. It means we are the makers of our own fate. When we say This is my karma, we are actually saying I am responsible for my life. #Sadhguru — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 3, 2025

...the patients who had seen a geriatrics team were a quarter less likely to become disabled and half as likely to develop depression. They were 40 percent less likely to require home health services. These were stunning results. #AtulGawande

...the patients who had seen a geriatrics team were a quarter less likely to become disabled and half as likely to develop depression. They were 40 percent less likely to require home health services. These were stunning results. #AtulGawande — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 3, 2025

Even when we want to be timid and play it safe, we should pause for a moment to imagine what we might be missing. #PaulArden

Even when we want to be timid and play it safe, we should pause for a moment to imagine what we might be missing. #PaulArden — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 3, 2025

Serious illness or infirmity will strike. It is as inevitable as sunset. And then a new question arises: If independence is what we live for, what do we do when it can no longer be sustained? #AtulGawande

Serious illness or infirmity will strike. It is as inevitable as sunset. And then a new question arises: If independence is what we live for, what do we do when it can no longer be sustained? #AtulGawande — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 3, 2025

Love is the fundamental building block of all human relationships. It will greatly impact our values and morals. Love is the important ingredient in one's search for meaning. #GaryChapman

Love is the fundamental building block of all human relationships. It will greatly impact our values and morals. Love is the important ingredient in one's search for meaning. #GaryChapman — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 3, 2025

I see it now--this world is swiftly passing. #Mahabharata

I see it now--this world is swiftly passing. #Mahabharata — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 3, 2025

Every statistics student is warned that statistical significance is a technical concept that should not be confused with significance in the vernacular sense of noteworthy or consequential. #StevenPinker

Every statistics student is warned that statistical significance is a technical concept that should not be confused with significance in the vernacular sense of noteworthy or consequential. #StevenPinker — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 2, 2025

The main purpose of CBT is to train oneself not to catastrophize and interpret every situation in the most negative light, and the goal is to develop a more positive and resilient attitude towards the world, so that one can engage with it as fully as possible. #HelenPluckrose

The main purpose of CBT is to train oneself not to catastrophize and interpret every situation in the most negative light, and the goal is to develop a more positive and resilient attitude towards the world, so that one can engage with it as fully as possible. #HelenPluckrose — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 2, 2025

Public opinion is the worst of all opinions. #NicolasChamfort

Public opinion is the worst of all opinions. #NicolasChamfort — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 2, 2025

Unless there's something specifically about you or your job that requires it, there is nothing to be admired about being constantly connected, constantly potentially productive the second you open your eyes in the morningnd in my opinion, no one should accept this #JennyOdell

Unless there's something specifically about you or your job that requires it, there is nothing to be admired about being constantly connected, constantly potentially productive the second you open your eyes in the morningnd in my opinion, no one should accept this #JennyOdell — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 2, 2025

In America, money not only sets the course of policy and influences the economy; it is also a yardstick in value judgement. It even affects how Americans think and how they approach a problem. #QianNing

In America, money not only sets the course of policy and influences the economy; it is also a yardstick in value judgement. It even affects how Americans think and how they approach a problem. #QianNing — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 2, 2025

The moral worth of an action consists not in the consequences that flow from it, but in the intention from which the act is done. #MichaelSandel

The moral worth of an action consists not in the consequences that flow from it, but in the intention from which the act is done. #MichaelSandel — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 1, 2025

The unconscious mind [may] be reading the present through the lenses of decades ago, but what we fear will happen [has] already happened; we are projecting into the future a catastrophe [from] to a past we have not had the chance to fathom and mourn adequately. #TheSchoolOfLife

The unconscious mind [may] be reading the present through the lenses of decades ago, but what we fear will happen [has] already happened; we are projecting into the future a catastrophe [from] to a past we have not had the chance to fathom and mourn adequately. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 1, 2025

Your great wealth and your great poverty, your capitalism and your socialism, your wars and your revolutions, your atheism and your pessimism and your cynicism, your immorality [...] those were characteristic marks of the dying ages of ancient States #OswaldSpengler

Your great wealth and your great poverty, your capitalism and your socialism, your wars and your revolutions, your atheism and your pessimism and your cynicism, your immorality [...] those were characteristic marks of the dying ages of ancient States #OswaldSpengler — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 1, 2025

Disliking people rarely being a sufficient reason for not wanting them to like us #AlaindeBotton

Disliking people rarely being a sufficient reason for not wanting them to like us #AlaindeBotton — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 1, 2025

More than 90 percent of these accidents are caused by very human errors: somebody drinking alcohol and driving, somebody texting a message while driving, somebody falling asleep at the wheel, somebody daydreaming instead of paying attention to the road. #YuvalNoahHarari

More than 90 percent of these accidents are caused by very human errors: somebody drinking alcohol and driving, somebody texting a message while driving, somebody falling asleep at the wheel, somebody daydreaming instead of paying attention to the road. #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 1, 2025

[Gross National Product] measures everything, in short, except that which makes life worthwhile. And it can tell us everything about America except why we are proud to be Americans. #MichaelSandel

[Gross National Product] measures everything, in short, except that which makes life worthwhile. And it can tell us everything about America except why we are proud to be Americans. #MichaelSandel — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Mar 31, 2025

The cultural anthropologists or literary scholars who avow that the truths of science are merely the narratives of one culture will still have their child's infection treated with antibiotics prescribed by a physician rather than a healing song performed by a shaman #StevenPinker

The cultural anthropologists or literary scholars who avow that the truths of science are merely the narratives of one culture will still have their child's infection treated with antibiotics prescribed by a physician rather than a healing song performed by a shaman #StevenPinker — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Mar 31, 2025

Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat. #MartinHFischer

Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat. #MartinHFischer — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Mar 31, 2025

As the addictive pleasures and miseries of electronic communication and phone-browsing offer themselves to us every minute of the day and night, we forget the benefits of time spent calmly with and within ourselves. #DerrenBrown

As the addictive pleasures and miseries of electronic communication and phone-browsing offer themselves to us every minute of the day and night, we forget the benefits of time spent calmly with and within ourselves. #DerrenBrown — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Mar 31, 2025

People bind themselves into political teams that share moral narratives. Once they accept a particular narrative, they become blind to alternative moral worlds. #JonathanHaidt

People bind themselves into political teams that share moral narratives. Once they accept a particular narrative, they become blind to alternative moral worlds. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Mar 31, 2025

...pay attention to the work you gravitate to. At my law firm I never once volunteered to take on an extra corporate legal assignment, but I did spend a lot of time doing pro bono work for a nonprofit women's leadership organization. #SusanCain

...pay attention to the work you gravitate to. At my law firm I never once volunteered to take on an extra corporate legal assignment, but I did spend a lot of time doing pro bono work for a nonprofit women's leadership organization. #SusanCain — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Mar 30, 2025

Those who have followed the assertive idiot rather than the introspective wise person have passed us some of their genes. This is apparent from a social pathology: psychopaths rally followers. #NassimNicholasTaleb

Those who have followed the assertive idiot rather than the introspective wise person have passed us some of their genes. This is apparent from a social pathology: psychopaths rally followers. #NassimNicholasTaleb — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Mar 30, 2025

...brain exchanges, where I'd get on a sixty-minute call with a friend who was an expert on a topic and we'd share notes on our best practices. #VishenLakhiani

...brain exchanges, where I'd get on a sixty-minute call with a friend who was an expert on a topic and we'd share notes on our best practices. #VishenLakhiani — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Mar 30, 2025

Empathy is a respectful understanding of what others are experiencing. #MarshallRosenberg

Empathy is a respectful understanding of what others are experiencing. #MarshallRosenberg — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Mar 30, 2025

The good tool gives no hint of the frailties of its maker. The very definition of sound working products is that they should be better than the people who made them. They should also ideally not fall apart so easily. We have to die, but they might go on... #TheSchoolOfLife

The good tool gives no hint of the frailties of its maker. The very definition of sound working products is that they should be better than the people who made them. They should also ideally not fall apart so easily. We have to die, but they might go on... #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Mar 30, 2025

...at the age of six months, long before they can walk or talk, human infants are making value judgments about actions and agents, reaching out to individuals who show signs of being cooperative (caring about others) and passing over individuals who do the opposite #JoshuaGreene

...at the age of six months, long before they can walk or talk, human infants are making value judgments about actions and agents, reaching out to individuals who show signs of being cooperative (caring about others) and passing over individuals who do the opposite #JoshuaGreene — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Mar 30, 2025

...observed Chamfort, adding that what is flatteringly called common sense is usually little short of common nonsense, suffering as it does from simplification and illogicality, prejudice and shallowness #AlaindeBotton

...observed Chamfort, adding that what is flatteringly called common sense is usually little short of common nonsense, suffering as it does from simplification and illogicality, prejudice and shallowness #AlaindeBotton — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Mar 29, 2025

Humans nowadays completely dominate the planet not because the individual human is far smarter and more nimble-fingered than the individual chimp or wolf, but because Homo sapiens is the only species on earth capable of cooperating flexibly in large numbers. #YuvalNoahHarari

Humans nowadays completely dominate the planet not because the individual human is far smarter and more nimble-fingered than the individual chimp or wolf, but because Homo sapiens is the only species on earth capable of cooperating flexibly in large numbers. #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Mar 29, 2025

Stoic move to ease the annoyance: He is doing his best, given whatever circumstances he finds himself in. He is not on this earth to make my life easier. Does it matter that he might seem a bit inept in some areas? #DerrenBrown

Stoic move to ease the annoyance: He is doing his best, given whatever circumstances he finds himself in. He is not on this earth to make my life easier. Does it matter that he might seem a bit inept in some areas? #DerrenBrown — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Mar 29, 2025

Nothing has a greater effect on your ability to enjoy experiences--at any age--than your health. In fact, health is actually a lot more valuable than money, because no amount of money can ever make up for very poor health--whereas people in good health but with little money can…

Nothing has a greater effect on your ability to enjoy experiences--at any age--than your health. In fact, health is actually a lot more valuable than money, because no amount of money can ever make up for very poor health--whereas people in good health but with little money can… — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Mar 29, 2025

...no one has listened to us. So we come to social life greedy to speak rather than listen, hungry to meet others, but reluctant to hear them. #TheSchoolOfLife

...no one has listened to us. So we come to social life greedy to speak rather than listen, hungry to meet others, but reluctant to hear them. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Mar 29, 2025

Suffering is not enough. Life is both dreadful and wonderful...How can I smile when I am filled with so much sorrow? It is natural--you need to smile to your sorrow because you are more than your sorrow. #ThichNhatHanh

Suffering is not enough. Life is both dreadful and wonderful...How can I smile when I am filled with so much sorrow? It is natural--you need to smile to your sorrow because you are more than your sorrow. #ThichNhatHanh — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Mar 29, 2025

Habits are powerful, but delicate. They can emerge outside our consciousness, or can be deliberately designed. They often occur without our permission, but can be reshaped by fiddling with their parts. #CharlesDuhigg

Habits are powerful, but delicate. They can emerge outside our consciousness, or can be deliberately designed. They often occur without our permission, but can be reshaped by fiddling with their parts. #CharlesDuhigg — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Mar 28, 2025

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run. #Thoreau

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run. #Thoreau — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Mar 28, 2025

Feminism was not a dirty joke. The feminist revolution had to be fought because women quite simply were stopped at a stage of evolution far short of their human capacity. The domestic function of woman does not exhaust her powers, the Rev. Theodore Parker [1853]. #BettyFriedan

Feminism was not a dirty joke. The feminist revolution had to be fought because women quite simply were stopped at a stage of evolution far short of their human capacity. The domestic function of woman does not exhaust her powers, the Rev. Theodore Parker [1853]. #BettyFriedan — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Mar 28, 2025

Embrace your difficulties as they arise in your relationship. You belong to the Tao and to each other and therefore need not fear problems. Since you are not afraid, you welcome the problems while they are still small. Since they are small, they resolve themselves. #WilliamMartin

Embrace your difficulties as they arise in your relationship. You belong to the Tao and to each other and therefore need not fear problems. Since you are not afraid, you welcome the problems while they are still small. Since they are small, they resolve themselves. #WilliamMartin — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Mar 28, 2025

We are not medieval peasants begging at the court of King Zuckerberg for crumbs of attention. We are free citizens of democracies, and we own our own minds and our own society, and together, we are going to take them back. #JohannHari

We are not medieval peasants begging at the court of King Zuckerberg for crumbs of attention. We are free citizens of democracies, and we own our own minds and our own society, and together, we are going to take them back. #JohannHari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Mar 28, 2025

Reality is what one makes it. And the more negative reality one nurtures and creates, the more of it one has. #BenjaminHoff

Reality is what one makes it. And the more negative reality one nurtures and creates, the more of it one has. #BenjaminHoff — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Mar 27, 2025

Being active every day makes it easier to hear that inner voice. #HarukiMurakami

Being active every day makes it easier to hear that inner voice. #HarukiMurakami — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Mar 27, 2025

But you can't stockpile vision and creativity--they're more perishable, like fresh fruit. Making it big is no guarantee of success. There have been lots of companies that made it big, only to disappear. #HarukiMurakami

But you can't stockpile vision and creativity--they're more perishable, like fresh fruit. Making it big is no guarantee of success. There have been lots of companies that made it big, only to disappear. #HarukiMurakami — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Mar 27, 2025

The first step toward wisdom is the realization that the laws of the universe don't care about you. The next is the realization that this does not imply that life is meaningless, because people care about you, and vice versa. #StevenPinker

The first step toward wisdom is the realization that the laws of the universe don't care about you. The next is the realization that this does not imply that life is meaningless, because people care about you, and vice versa. #StevenPinker — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Mar 27, 2025

As Lao-tse pointed out, the bad can be raw material for the good. So quite often, the easiest way to get rid of a Minus is to change it into a Plus. #BenjaminHoff

As Lao-tse pointed out, the bad can be raw material for the good. So quite often, the easiest way to get rid of a Minus is to change it into a Plus. #BenjaminHoff — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Mar 27, 2025

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. #Einstein

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. #Einstein — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Mar 26, 2025

It is with acts of attention that we decide who to hear, who to see, and who in our world has agency. In this way, attention forms the ground not just for love, but for ethics. #JennyOdell

It is with acts of attention that we decide who to hear, who to see, and who in our world has agency. In this way, attention forms the ground not just for love, but for ethics. #JennyOdell — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Mar 26, 2025

...Kierkegaard called the dizziness of freedom. When the external constraints are loosened, when a person can do what he wants, when there are a thousand choices and distractions, then life can lose coherence and direction if there isn't a strong internal structure #DavidBrooks

...Kierkegaard called the dizziness of freedom. When the external constraints are loosened, when a person can do what he wants, when there are a thousand choices and distractions, then life can lose coherence and direction if there isn't a strong internal structure #DavidBrooks — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Mar 26, 2025

Each one of us is more than the worst thing we've ever done. #SherylSandberg

Each one of us is more than the worst thing we've ever done. #SherylSandberg — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Mar 26, 2025

Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth. #Thoreau

Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth. #Thoreau — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Mar 26, 2025

We should not expect individuals to produce good, open-minded, truth-seeking reasoning, particularly when self-interest or reputational concerns are in play. #JonathanHaidt

We should not expect individuals to produce good, open-minded, truth-seeking reasoning, particularly when self-interest or reputational concerns are in play. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Mar 26, 2025

I think everyone who cares about education should remember that the American motto of e pluribus, unum (from many, one) has two parts. The celebration of pluribus should be balanced by policies that strengthen the unum. #JonathanHaidt

I think everyone who cares about education should remember that the American motto of e pluribus, unum (from many, one) has two parts. The celebration of pluribus should be balanced by policies that strengthen the unum. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Mar 25, 2025

...if morality is a set of adaptations for cooperation, we today are moral beings only because our morally minded ancestors outcompeted their less morally minded neighbors. #JoshuaGreene

...if morality is a set of adaptations for cooperation, we today are moral beings only because our morally minded ancestors outcompeted their less morally minded neighbors. #JoshuaGreene — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Mar 25, 2025

There is one other possibility to explain the oddity of the Enlightenment thinkers ending up so prominently in the firing line of our era. And that is this: The European Enlightenments were the greatest leap forward for the concept of objective truth #DouglasMurray

There is one other possibility to explain the oddity of the Enlightenment thinkers ending up so prominently in the firing line of our era. And that is this: The European Enlightenments were the greatest leap forward for the concept of objective truth #DouglasMurray — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Mar 25, 2025

I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning. #HarukiMurakami

I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning. #HarukiMurakami — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Mar 25, 2025

This kind of rigor goes into a lot of my decision making. Whether it's where I'm eating, where I'm traveling, or, god forbid, something I'm buying, I feel compelled to do a lot of research to make sure I'm getting the best. #AzizAnsari

This kind of rigor goes into a lot of my decision making. Whether it's where I'm eating, where I'm traveling, or, god forbid, something I'm buying, I feel compelled to do a lot of research to make sure I'm getting the best. #AzizAnsari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Mar 25, 2025

I view our job as empowering people to be able to express what they want and get the content that they want, and whenever we try to exert some kind of opinion that's different from what people want our products to do worse, and we exist in a very competitive space #MarkZuckerberg

I view our job as empowering people to be able to express what they want and get the content that they want, and whenever we try to exert some kind of opinion that's different from what people want our products to do worse, and we exist in a very competitive space #MarkZuckerberg — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Mar 24, 2025

Pre-Socratic philosophy begins... with the discovery of Nature; Socratic philosophy begins with the discovery of man's soul. #WilliamBIrvine

Pre-Socratic philosophy begins... with the discovery of Nature; Socratic philosophy begins with the discovery of man's soul. #WilliamBIrvine — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Mar 24, 2025

Markets express and promote certain attitudes to the goods being exchanged. #MichaelSandel

Markets express and promote certain attitudes to the goods being exchanged. #MichaelSandel — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Mar 24, 2025

The theory helps to restore a kind of justice that we may not ourselves directly be able to administer. The explanation of the origins of nastiness changes how we assess our opponent. No longer are they necessarily strong and impervious. #TheSchoolOfLife

The theory helps to restore a kind of justice that we may not ourselves directly be able to administer. The explanation of the origins of nastiness changes how we assess our opponent. No longer are they necessarily strong and impervious. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Mar 24, 2025

We will have learnt to be good sceptics, and better thinkers, when we always maintain a position of doubt with regards to the troubling and devilishly unreliable tool with which we're trying so hard to think well. #TheSchoolOfLife

We will have learnt to be good sceptics, and better thinkers, when we always maintain a position of doubt with regards to the troubling and devilishly unreliable tool with which we're trying so hard to think well. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Mar 24, 2025

They have a job that sounds unimpressive, but their interests are very broad and they might be the ideal person to go round an antiques market with. #TheSchoolOfLife

They have a job that sounds unimpressive, but their interests are very broad and they might be the ideal person to go round an antiques market with. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Mar 24, 2025

[Gossipers] withhold the truth, on which every act of compassion is based, that we are all sinners, every last one of us, not merely this or that miserable creature unlucky enough to have attracted the malicious attention of the latest hard-hearted journalist. #TheSchoolOfLife

[Gossipers] withhold the truth, on which every act of compassion is based, that we are all sinners, every last one of us, not merely this or that miserable creature unlucky enough to have attracted the malicious attention of the latest hard-hearted journalist. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Mar 23, 2025

Categorizing is necessary for humans, but it becomes pathological when the category is seen as definitive, preventing people from considering the fuzziness of boundaries, let alone revising their categories. #NassimNicholasTaleb

Categorizing is necessary for humans, but it becomes pathological when the category is seen as definitive, preventing people from considering the fuzziness of boundaries, let alone revising their categories. #NassimNicholasTaleb — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Mar 23, 2025

In the sympathetic words of the New York Times: All admit to being deeply frustrated at times by the lack of privacy, the physical burden, the routine of family life, the confinement of it [but] none would give up her home and family if she had the choice to make again. #BettyF

In the sympathetic words of the New York Times: All admit to being deeply frustrated at times by the lack of privacy, the physical burden, the routine of family life, the confinement of it [but] none would give up her home and family if she had the choice to make again. #BettyF — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Mar 23, 2025

Emotional hurt is the price a person has to pay in order to be independent. #HarukiMurakami

Emotional hurt is the price a person has to pay in order to be independent. #HarukiMurakami — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Mar 23, 2025

Judging people before really seeing things through their eyes stands in the way of understanding their circumstances--and that isn't smart. #RayDalio

Judging people before really seeing things through their eyes stands in the way of understanding their circumstances--and that isn't smart. #RayDalio — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Mar 23, 2025

It ought to be one of the most basic things we recognise about each other: a common fate we face. It's very sad. But it is not sad uniquely to any one person. It's a strangely consoling tragic idea that imagination always, inevitably, outstrips the potential. #TheSchoolOfLife

It ought to be one of the most basic things we recognise about each other: a common fate we face. It's very sad. But it is not sad uniquely to any one person. It's a strangely consoling tragic idea that imagination always, inevitably, outstrips the potential. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Mar 23, 2025

Strike the stone with the pebble, between the tall and hard wall and the egg, I will always stand on the side of the egg. #HarukiMurakami

Strike the stone with the pebble, between the tall and hard wall and the egg, I will always stand on the side of the egg. #HarukiMurakami — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Mar 22, 2025

Our comforting conviction that the world makes sense rests on a secure foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance. #DanielKahneman

Our comforting conviction that the world makes sense rests on a secure foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance. #DanielKahneman — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Mar 22, 2025

If a satisfactory answer to a hard question is not found quickly, System 1 (intuition) will find a related question that is easier and will answer it. I call the operation of answering one question in place of another substitution. #DanielKahneman

If a satisfactory answer to a hard question is not found quickly, System 1 (intuition) will find a related question that is easier and will answer it. I call the operation of answering one question in place of another substitution. #DanielKahneman — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Mar 22, 2025

Imagine who you could be, and then aim single-mindedly at that. #JordanPeterson