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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

In war there is no substitute for victory. #GeneralDouglasMacArthur

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Starving children have no liberties. #YuvalNoahHarari

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

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

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

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

[Both Kant and Bentham] believe in parsimony. They both distrust intuitions and gut feelings, which they see as obstacles to good reasoning. And they both shun the particular in favor of the abstract #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 21, 2025

One reason children are capable of joy is because they take almost nothing for granted. #WilliamBIrvine

One reason children are capable of joy is because they take almost nothing for granted. #WilliamBIrvine — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 21, 2025

There's really only one way to threaten a democratic system: when one group decides that its values are more important than the system itself and it subverts the religion of democracy with some other, likely less virtuous, religion... and political extremism grows. #MarkManson

There's really only one way to threaten a democratic system: when one group decides that its values are more important than the system itself and it subverts the religion of democracy with some other, likely less virtuous, religion... and political extremism grows. #MarkManson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 21, 2025

The study of maps and the perusal of travel books aroused in me a secret fascination that was at times almost irresistible. #AlaindeBotton

The study of maps and the perusal of travel books aroused in me a secret fascination that was at times almost irresistible. #AlaindeBotton — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 21, 2025

...in respect of riches, no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself. #JeanJacquesRousseau

...in respect of riches, no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself. #JeanJacquesRousseau — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 21, 2025

If you avoid any experience-whether pain or pleasure, sorrow or joy-it is big karma. But if you go through the experience without resisting it, the karma dissolves [ie] why Krishna in the great Indian epic the Mahabharata says that hesitation is the worst of all crimes. #Sadhguru

If you avoid any experience-whether pain or pleasure, sorrow or joy-it is big karma. But if you go through the experience without resisting it, the karma dissolves [ie] why Krishna in the great Indian epic the Mahabharata says that hesitation is the worst of all crimes. #Sadhguru — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 21, 2025

...there's no value in sabotaging yourself per se. The value lies in convincing other players that you've sabotaged yourself. In the game of chicken, you don't win because you're unable to steer, but because your opponent believes you're unable to steer. #RobinHanson

...there's no value in sabotaging yourself per se. The value lies in convincing other players that you've sabotaged yourself. In the game of chicken, you don't win because you're unable to steer, but because your opponent believes you're unable to steer. #RobinHanson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 20, 2025

We grossly overestimate the intensity and the duration of our emotional reactions. Within a year, lottery winners and paraplegics have both (on average) returned most of the way to their baseline levels of happiness. #JonathanHaidt

We grossly overestimate the intensity and the duration of our emotional reactions. Within a year, lottery winners and paraplegics have both (on average) returned most of the way to their baseline levels of happiness. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 20, 2025

You might get a ticket if you drive too fast, your car might crash because of the road conditions. We really want to focus on sustainable growth, focus on existing customers, rather than aggressively targeting the new prospects. #EricYuan

You might get a ticket if you drive too fast, your car might crash because of the road conditions. We really want to focus on sustainable growth, focus on existing customers, rather than aggressively targeting the new prospects. #EricYuan — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 20, 2025

Today we've become far more accepting of alternative lifestyles, and people move in and out of different situations: single with roommates, single and solo, single with partner, married, divorced, divorced and living with an iguana, remarried with iguana... #AzizAnsari

Today we've become far more accepting of alternative lifestyles, and people move in and out of different situations: single with roommates, single and solo, single with partner, married, divorced, divorced and living with an iguana, remarried with iguana... #AzizAnsari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 20, 2025

The intrinsically moral term character fell out of favor and was replaced by the amoral term personality. #JonathanHaidt

The intrinsically moral term character fell out of favor and was replaced by the amoral term personality. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 20, 2025

In fact, teachers reward discipline independent of its influence on learning, and in ways that tamp down on student creativity. #KevinSimler

In fact, teachers reward discipline independent of its influence on learning, and in ways that tamp down on student creativity. #KevinSimler — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 20, 2025

Humans have this remarkable ability to know and not to know at the same time. Or more correctly, they can know something when they really think about it, but most of the time they don't think about it, so they don't know it. #YuvalNoahHarari

Humans have this remarkable ability to know and not to know at the same time. Or more correctly, they can know something when they really think about it, but most of the time they don't think about it, so they don't know it. #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 19, 2025

Small wins are a steady application of a small advantage. #CharlesDuhigg

Small wins are a steady application of a small advantage. #CharlesDuhigg — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 19, 2025

Revealingly, our culture is fascinated by inventors and artists who struck out on their own, went strongly against the tide of current opinion and were eventually vindicated, even if only after their deaths. #TheSchoolOfLife

Revealingly, our culture is fascinated by inventors and artists who struck out on their own, went strongly against the tide of current opinion and were eventually vindicated, even if only after their deaths. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 19, 2025

A culture that allows the concept of safety to creep so far that it equates emotional discomfort with physical danger encourages people to systematically protect one another from the very experiences embedded in daily life that they need in order to become strong #JonathanHaidt

A culture that allows the concept of safety to creep so far that it equates emotional discomfort with physical danger encourages people to systematically protect one another from the very experiences embedded in daily life that they need in order to become strong #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 19, 2025

What does it matter whether the neurons are firing because they are stimulated by other neurons, or because they are stimulated by transplanted electrodes connected to Professor Talwar's remote control? If you asked the rat about it, [Sure I have free will!] #YuvalNoahHarari

What does it matter whether the neurons are firing because they are stimulated by other neurons, or because they are stimulated by transplanted electrodes connected to Professor Talwar's remote control? If you asked the rat about it, [Sure I have free will!] #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 19, 2025

Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true. #SamuelJohnson

Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true. #SamuelJohnson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 19, 2025

Our judgement of what constitutes an appropriate limit on anything--for example, on wealth or esteem--is never arrived at independently; instead, we make such determinations by comparing our condition with that of a reference group, a set of people [resembling us] #AlaindeBotton

Our judgement of what constitutes an appropriate limit on anything--for example, on wealth or esteem--is never arrived at independently; instead, we make such determinations by comparing our condition with that of a reference group, a set of people [resembling us] #AlaindeBotton — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 18, 2025

I urge you to be curious enough to want to understand how the people who see things differently from you came to see them that way. You will find that interesting and invaluable, and the richer perspective you gain will help you decide what you should do. #RayDalio

I urge you to be curious enough to want to understand how the people who see things differently from you came to see them that way. You will find that interesting and invaluable, and the richer perspective you gain will help you decide what you should do. #RayDalio — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 18, 2025

Perhaps the first mark of emotional maturity is to realise that there is an enormous gulf between the events of the world and what we do with them. #DerrenBrown

Perhaps the first mark of emotional maturity is to realise that there is an enormous gulf between the events of the world and what we do with them. #DerrenBrown — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 18, 2025

Our struggle is against a system where the top twenty-five hedge fund managers in the United States pocket more money than 350,000 kindergarten teachers combined. When did we the people make that determination? #BernieSanders

Our struggle is against a system where the top twenty-five hedge fund managers in the United States pocket more money than 350,000 kindergarten teachers combined. When did we the people make that determination? #BernieSanders — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 18, 2025

All we need to do at important moments when our other inner characters will be rushing to get to the microphone of the mind, is to hold them all back purposefully, breathe deeply and ask ourselves one simple but categorical question: what would the adult say here #TheSchoolOfLife

All we need to do at important moments when our other inner characters will be rushing to get to the microphone of the mind, is to hold them all back purposefully, breathe deeply and ask ourselves one simple but categorical question: what would the adult say here #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 18, 2025

Impatience is not so much frustration at things taking a long time in any absolute sense, but the feeling that they are taking longer than they should. Sometimes this may truly be the case. But often the problem is not so much in the time 'things' take... #TheSchoolOfLife

Impatience is not so much frustration at things taking a long time in any absolute sense, but the feeling that they are taking longer than they should. Sometimes this may truly be the case. But often the problem is not so much in the time 'things' take... #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 18, 2025

Focus on clarifying what is being observed, felt, and needed rather than on diagnosing and judging #MarshallRosenberg

Focus on clarifying what is being observed, felt, and needed rather than on diagnosing and judging #MarshallRosenberg — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 17, 2025

To undertake a journey on a road never before traveled requires character and courage: character because the choice is not obvious; courage because the road will be lonely at first. And the statesman must then inspire his people to persist in the endeavor. #HenryKissinger

To undertake a journey on a road never before traveled requires character and courage: character because the choice is not obvious; courage because the road will be lonely at first. And the statesman must then inspire his people to persist in the endeavor. #HenryKissinger — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 17, 2025

...scientific literacy and numeracy were not very good predictors of people's beliefs about the risks of climate change. Instead, their beliefs were well predicted by their general cultural outlooks--by their tribal memberships #JoshuaGreene

...scientific literacy and numeracy were not very good predictors of people's beliefs about the risks of climate change. Instead, their beliefs were well predicted by their general cultural outlooks--by their tribal memberships #JoshuaGreene — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 17, 2025

But efforts to protect kids from risk by preventing them from gaining experience--such as walking to school, climbing a tree, or using sharp scissors--are different. Such protections come with costs, as kids miss out on opportunities to learn skills, independence #JonathanHaidt

But efforts to protect kids from risk by preventing them from gaining experience--such as walking to school, climbing a tree, or using sharp scissors--are different. Such protections come with costs, as kids miss out on opportunities to learn skills, independence #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 17, 2025

As time goes on, you'll understand. What lasts, lasts; what doesn't, doesn't. Time solves most things. And what time can't solve, you have to solve yourself. #HarukiMurakami

As time goes on, you'll understand. What lasts, lasts; what doesn't, doesn't. Time solves most things. And what time can't solve, you have to solve yourself. #HarukiMurakami — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 17, 2025

...style propels the reader into a relationship with the author, or with the subject matter, by fusing substance and aesthetics. #HenryKissinger

...style propels the reader into a relationship with the author, or with the subject matter, by fusing substance and aesthetics. #HenryKissinger — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 17, 2025

The happiness-as-cause hypothesis received direct support when the psychologist Alice Isen went around Philadelphia leaving dimes in pay phones. The people who used those phones and found the dimes were then more likely to help a person... #JonathanHaidt

The happiness-as-cause hypothesis received direct support when the psychologist Alice Isen went around Philadelphia leaving dimes in pay phones. The people who used those phones and found the dimes were then more likely to help a person... #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 16, 2025

Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look. #MarcusAurelius

Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look. #MarcusAurelius — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 16, 2025

In the military context, shi connotes the strategic trend and potential energy of a developing situation, the power inherent in the particular arrangement of elements and... its developmental tendency. #HenryKissinger

In the military context, shi connotes the strategic trend and potential energy of a developing situation, the power inherent in the particular arrangement of elements and... its developmental tendency. #HenryKissinger — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 16, 2025

We all have very similar and very able minds; where geniuses differ is in their more robust inclinations to study them properly. #TheSchoolOfLife

We all have very similar and very able minds; where geniuses differ is in their more robust inclinations to study them properly. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 16, 2025

We do not want to endure long pain and short pleasure. Yet certain pleasures can make enduring suffering worthwhile. The peaks are important, and so is the ending. #AtulGawande

We do not want to endure long pain and short pleasure. Yet certain pleasures can make enduring suffering worthwhile. The peaks are important, and so is the ending. #AtulGawande — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 16, 2025

...for me, desire for love and desire for sex had always been one and the same, an unbreakable link. #AngelaChen

...for me, desire for love and desire for sex had always been one and the same, an unbreakable link. #AngelaChen — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 16, 2025

A philosophy untouched by the shadows on the wall can only yield a sterile utopia. #MichaelSandel

A philosophy untouched by the shadows on the wall can only yield a sterile utopia. #MichaelSandel — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 15, 2025

And one of the results of running a little farther than usual is that I become that much stronger. If I'm angry, I direct that anger toward myself. If I have a frustrating experience, I use that to improve myself. #HarukiMurakami

And one of the results of running a little farther than usual is that I become that much stronger. If I'm angry, I direct that anger toward myself. If I have a frustrating experience, I use that to improve myself. #HarukiMurakami — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 15, 2025

But at least in a low-pressure situation such as this, if someone else brings up reasons and evidence on the other side, people can be induced to change their minds; they just don't make an effort to do such thinking for themselves. #JonathanHaidt

But at least in a low-pressure situation such as this, if someone else brings up reasons and evidence on the other side, people can be induced to change their minds; they just don't make an effort to do such thinking for themselves. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 15, 2025

Cultures, nations, religions, and people are not rocks. They are in constant transformation. #HansRosling

Cultures, nations, religions, and people are not rocks. They are in constant transformation. #HansRosling — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 15, 2025

[Engaging in a holier than thou arms race] leads to the kind of extreme displays and exaggerated features we find across the biological world. If the Hajj seems extravagant, remember the peacock's tail or the towering redwoods. #RobinHanson

[Engaging in a holier than thou arms race] leads to the kind of extreme displays and exaggerated features we find across the biological world. If the Hajj seems extravagant, remember the peacock's tail or the towering redwoods. #RobinHanson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 15, 2025

Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person. #GloriaSteinem

Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person. #GloriaSteinem — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 15, 2025

People would be happier and healthier if they took more time off and spent it with their family and friends, yet America has long been heading in the opposite direction. #JonathanHaidt

People would be happier and healthier if they took more time off and spent it with their family and friends, yet America has long been heading in the opposite direction. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 14, 2025

We tend to fantasise about freedom in terms of not having to work or of being able to take off on long trips. If we dig into its core, though, freedom really means no longer being beholden to the expectations of others. #TheSchoolOfLife

We tend to fantasise about freedom in terms of not having to work or of being able to take off on long trips. If we dig into its core, though, freedom really means no longer being beholden to the expectations of others. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 14, 2025

Our DNA still thinks we are in the savannah. #YuvalNoahHarari

Our DNA still thinks we are in the savannah. #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 14, 2025

The spectacle of nature, by growing quite familiar to him, becomes at last equally indifferent. It is constantly the same order, constantly the same revolutions; he has not sense enough to feel surprise at the sight of the greatest wonders #JeanJacquesRousseau

The spectacle of nature, by growing quite familiar to him, becomes at last equally indifferent. It is constantly the same order, constantly the same revolutions; he has not sense enough to feel surprise at the sight of the greatest wonders #JeanJacquesRousseau — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 14, 2025

As Albert Einstein lamented, It is . . . nothing short of a miracle that modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry. #RobinHanson

As Albert Einstein lamented, It is . . . nothing short of a miracle that modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry. #RobinHanson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 14, 2025

[With confirmation bias, securities analysts] will tell you that religion was horrible for mankind by counting deaths from the Inquisition and various religious wars. But they will not show you how many people were killed by nationalism, social science... #NassimNicholasTaleb

[With confirmation bias, securities analysts] will tell you that religion was horrible for mankind by counting deaths from the Inquisition and various religious wars. But they will not show you how many people were killed by nationalism, social science... #NassimNicholasTaleb — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 13, 2025

Intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life. #PauloCoelho

Intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life. #PauloCoelho — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 13, 2025

Life is essentially quite difficult. #TheSchoolOfLife

Life is essentially quite difficult. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 13, 2025

When you fall in love with the process rather than the product, you don't have to wait to give yourself permission to be happy. #JamesClear

When you fall in love with the process rather than the product, you don't have to wait to give yourself permission to be happy. #JamesClear — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 13, 2025

There has long been a division of academic labor: Biologists studied the brain as a physical object, psychologists studied the mind, and sociologists and anthropologists studied the socially constructed environments within which minds develop and function. #JonathanHaidt