English Quotes

When we have unconflicted self-esteem, joy is our motor, not fear. It is happiness that we wish to experience, not suffering that we wish to avoid. #NathanielBranden — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 4, 2025

It cannot continue. When we run up against the reasonable limits of our lovers' capacities for understanding, we mustn't blame them for dereliction. They were not tragically inept. They couldn't fully fathom who we were--and we could do no better. Which is normal. #AlaindeBotton

It cannot continue. When we run up against the reasonable limits of our lovers' capacities for understanding, we mustn't blame them for dereliction. They were not tragically inept. They couldn't fully fathom who we were--and we could do no better. Which is normal. #AlaindeBotton — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 4, 2025

Never, never, never give up. #WinstonChurchill

Never, never, never give up. #WinstonChurchill — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 3, 2025

There is one path to ultimate happiness--having money--that in turn comes from attending prestigious colleges. #MichaelSandel

There is one path to ultimate happiness--having money--that in turn comes from attending prestigious colleges. #MichaelSandel — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 3, 2025

When we talk about decision-making, we usually focus just on the immediate payoff of a single decision--and if you treat every decision as if it were your last, then indeed only exploitation makes sense. #BrianChristian

When we talk about decision-making, we usually focus just on the immediate payoff of a single decision--and if you treat every decision as if it were your last, then indeed only exploitation makes sense. #BrianChristian — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 3, 2025

The act of self-denial seems to confer on us the right to be harsh and merciless toward others. #EricHoffer

The act of self-denial seems to confer on us the right to be harsh and merciless toward others. #EricHoffer — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 3, 2025

The healthy brain theory proposes that our minds are clusters of fitness indicators: persuasive salesmen like art, music, and humor, that do their best work in courtship, where the most important deals are made. #GeoffreyMiller

The healthy brain theory proposes that our minds are clusters of fitness indicators: persuasive salesmen like art, music, and humor, that do their best work in courtship, where the most important deals are made. #GeoffreyMiller — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 3, 2025

The meritocracy defines community as a mass of talented individuals competing with one another. #DavidBrooks

The meritocracy defines community as a mass of talented individuals competing with one another. #DavidBrooks — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 3, 2025

Where other conditions are equal, the children of mothers who work because they want to are less likely to be disturbed, have problems in school, or to lack a sense of personal worth than housewives' children. #BettyFriedan

Where other conditions are equal, the children of mothers who work because they want to are less likely to be disturbed, have problems in school, or to lack a sense of personal worth than housewives' children. #BettyFriedan — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 2, 2025

Political systems that yield inferior economic performance will ultimately be discarded for those that are more productive #LeeKuanYew

Political systems that yield inferior economic performance will ultimately be discarded for those that are more productive #LeeKuanYew — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 2, 2025

Reputation is not something that can ever be 'repaired' because it is never properly built; it is merely a temporary assembly of wind and twigs. #TheSchoolOfLife

Reputation is not something that can ever be 'repaired' because it is never properly built; it is merely a temporary assembly of wind and twigs. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 2, 2025

...almost everything has changed over the last five hundred years, especially in the West. As Theory points out, that progress has sometimes been problematic, but it has still been progress. Things are better than they were five hundred years ago... #HelenPluckrose

...almost everything has changed over the last five hundred years, especially in the West. As Theory points out, that progress has sometimes been problematic, but it has still been progress. Things are better than they were five hundred years ago... #HelenPluckrose — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 2, 2025

Choose your own gratifying activities, do them regularly (but not to the point of tedium), and raise your overall level of happiness #JonathanHaidt

Choose your own gratifying activities, do them regularly (but not to the point of tedium), and raise your overall level of happiness #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 2, 2025

Family gathering together on the holidays is exploitation. So is a bookworm settling into a reading chair with a hot cup of coffee and a beloved favorite, or a band playing their greatest hits to a crowd of adoring fans, or a couple that has stood the test of time #BrianChristian

Family gathering together on the holidays is exploitation. So is a bookworm settling into a reading chair with a hot cup of coffee and a beloved favorite, or a band playing their greatest hits to a crowd of adoring fans, or a couple that has stood the test of time #BrianChristian — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 2, 2025

What would men be without women? Scarce, sir, mighty scarce. #MarkTwain

What would men be without women? Scarce, sir, mighty scarce. #MarkTwain — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 1, 2025

Experienced radiologists who evaluate chest X-rays as normal or abnormal contradict themselves 20% of the time when they see the same picture on separate occasions. #DanielKahneman

Experienced radiologists who evaluate chest X-rays as normal or abnormal contradict themselves 20% of the time when they see the same picture on separate occasions. #DanielKahneman — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 1, 2025

As Nietzsche put it, if you have a why to live, you can bear almost any how. A meaningful life can be extremely satisfying even in the midst of hardship, whereas a meaningless life is a terrible ordeal no matter how comfortable it is. #YuvalNoahHarari

As Nietzsche put it, if you have a why to live, you can bear almost any how. A meaningful life can be extremely satisfying even in the midst of hardship, whereas a meaningless life is a terrible ordeal no matter how comfortable it is. #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 1, 2025

It's what the philosopher Alan Watts used to refer to as the backwards law--the idea that the more you pursue feeling better all the time, the less satisfied you become, as pursuing something only reinforces the fact that you lack it in the first place. #MarkManson