English Quotes

As long as our politicians talk a good game, we don't seem to care whether they're skilled at crafting bills and shepherding them through the system. Across the board, we seem to prefer high-minded rhetoric over humble pragmatism. #RobinHanson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Mar 1, 2025

With verbal encouragement, we are trying to communicate, I know. I care. I am with you. How can I help? We are trying to show that we believe in him and in his abilities. We are giving credit and praise. #GaryChapman

With verbal encouragement, we are trying to communicate, I know. I care. I am with you. How can I help? We are trying to show that we believe in him and in his abilities. We are giving credit and praise. #GaryChapman — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Mar 1, 2025

Social status among humans actually comes in two flavors: dominance and prestige. #KevinSimler

Social status among humans actually comes in two flavors: dominance and prestige. #KevinSimler — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 28, 2025

...organizations have to operate at scale, so everything has to be standardized. Everything has to follow rules. The purpose of management is to create a world that is repeatable, [Block and McKnight] write. But people are never the same. #DavidBrooks

...organizations have to operate at scale, so everything has to be standardized. Everything has to follow rules. The purpose of management is to create a world that is repeatable, [Block and McKnight] write. But people are never the same. #DavidBrooks — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 28, 2025

For developing countries, free trade has rarely been a matter of choice; it was often an imposition from outside, sometimes even through military power. Most of them did very poorly under free trade; they did much better when they used protection and subsidies. #HaJoonChang

For developing countries, free trade has rarely been a matter of choice; it was often an imposition from outside, sometimes even through military power. Most of them did very poorly under free trade; they did much better when they used protection and subsidies. #HaJoonChang — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 28, 2025

I am inviting you to go deeper, to learn and to practice so that you become someone who has a great capacity for being solid, calm, and without fear, because our society needs people like you who have these qualities #ThichNhatHanh

I am inviting you to go deeper, to learn and to practice so that you become someone who has a great capacity for being solid, calm, and without fear, because our society needs people like you who have these qualities #ThichNhatHanh — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 28, 2025

Twitter makes you feel that the whole world is obsessed with you and your little ego-- it loves you, it hates you, it's talking about you right now. The ocean makes you feel like the world is greeting you with a soft, wet, welcoming indifference. #JohannHari

Twitter makes you feel that the whole world is obsessed with you and your little ego-- it loves you, it hates you, it's talking about you right now. The ocean makes you feel like the world is greeting you with a soft, wet, welcoming indifference. #JohannHari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 28, 2025

To control the single perspective instinct, get a toolbox, not a hammer. Test your ideas. Don't only collect examples that show how excellent your favorite ideas are. Have people who disagree with you test your ideas and find their weaknesses. #HansRosling

To control the single perspective instinct, get a toolbox, not a hammer. Test your ideas. Don't only collect examples that show how excellent your favorite ideas are. Have people who disagree with you test your ideas and find their weaknesses. #HansRosling — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 28, 2025

Groups create supernatural beings not to explain the universe but to order their societies. #JonathanHaidt

Groups create supernatural beings not to explain the universe but to order their societies. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 27, 2025

A breakdown isn't just a pain, though it is that too of course; it is an extraordinary opportunity to learn. #TheSchoolOfLife

A breakdown isn't just a pain, though it is that too of course; it is an extraordinary opportunity to learn. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 27, 2025

The parent loves their child because they understand them. Parents are, for good reason, the least consensus-driven people in the world. No wonder they wait at the prison gates. #TheSchoolOfLife

The parent loves their child because they understand them. Parents are, for good reason, the least consensus-driven people in the world. No wonder they wait at the prison gates. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 27, 2025

Let's not treat willpower as a troublesome and evasive beast that needs to be beaten into submission. If Schopenhauer is right, it's bigger than all of us. #DerrenBrown

Let's not treat willpower as a troublesome and evasive beast that needs to be beaten into submission. If Schopenhauer is right, it's bigger than all of us. #DerrenBrown — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 27, 2025

He who hunts for flowers will find flowers; and he who loves weeds will find weeds. #HenryWardBeecher

He who hunts for flowers will find flowers; and he who loves weeds will find weeds. #HenryWardBeecher — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 27, 2025

The sign of the true expert is his modest awareness of how much more there is to know #DerrenBrown

The sign of the true expert is his modest awareness of how much more there is to know #DerrenBrown — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 26, 2025

Love has a history and we ride--sometimes rather helplessly--on its currents. #TheSchoolOfLife

Love has a history and we ride--sometimes rather helplessly--on its currents. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 26, 2025

In the desire to be respected, people become ableist and prejudiced, straining to present ourselves as happy and healthy when it should be fine to be ace and unhappy and unhealthy, like all the unhappy and unhealthy straight people out there. #AngelaChen

In the desire to be respected, people become ableist and prejudiced, straining to present ourselves as happy and healthy when it should be fine to be ace and unhappy and unhealthy, like all the unhappy and unhealthy straight people out there. #AngelaChen — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 26, 2025

In the context of health and ecology, things that grow unchecked are often considered parasitic or cancerous. Yet we inhabit a culture that privileges novelty and growth over the cyclical and the regenerative. #JennyOdell

In the context of health and ecology, things that grow unchecked are often considered parasitic or cancerous. Yet we inhabit a culture that privileges novelty and growth over the cyclical and the regenerative. #JennyOdell — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 26, 2025

To really get a mass atrocity going you need idealism--the belief that your violence is a means to a moral end. #JonathanHaidt

To really get a mass atrocity going you need idealism--the belief that your violence is a means to a moral end. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 26, 2025

...a stupidity we pay dearly for. A dumb book or song can be shelved and disturb no one. A dumb building will stand defacing the Earth and upsetting all who must look at it for hundreds of years. On this basis alone, architecture is the most important of the arts #TheSchoolOfLife

...a stupidity we pay dearly for. A dumb book or song can be shelved and disturb no one. A dumb building will stand defacing the Earth and upsetting all who must look at it for hundreds of years. On this basis alone, architecture is the most important of the arts #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 26, 2025

People with character are capable of a long obedience in the same direction, of staying attached to people and causes and callings consistently through thick and thin. #DavidBrooks

People with character are capable of a long obedience in the same direction, of staying attached to people and causes and callings consistently through thick and thin. #DavidBrooks — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 25, 2025

...people to break their emotional attachments to people and events, which are always unpredictable and uncontrollable, and to cultivate instead an attitude of acceptance. This ancient idea deserves respect, and it is certainly true that changing your mind... #JonathanHaidt

...people to break their emotional attachments to people and events, which are always unpredictable and uncontrollable, and to cultivate instead an attitude of acceptance. This ancient idea deserves respect, and it is certainly true that changing your mind... #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 25, 2025

The problem of cooperation, then, is the problem of getting collective interest to triumph over individual interest, when possible. The problem of cooperation is the central problem of social existence. #JoshuaGreene

The problem of cooperation, then, is the problem of getting collective interest to triumph over individual interest, when possible. The problem of cooperation is the central problem of social existence. #JoshuaGreene — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 25, 2025

Ultimately, the most meaningful freedom in your life comes from your commitments, the things in life for which you have chosen to sacrifice. #MarkManson

Ultimately, the most meaningful freedom in your life comes from your commitments, the things in life for which you have chosen to sacrifice. #MarkManson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 25, 2025

Having a husband and kids isn't a prerequisite to having a well-rounded, fulfilling adult life anymore. #AzizAnsari

Having a husband and kids isn't a prerequisite to having a well-rounded, fulfilling adult life anymore. #AzizAnsari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 25, 2025

The older generation of overseas Chinese often tried to convince the younger generation to never marry a foreigner, because a foreigner was unreliable; a Chinese would be more reliable. #QianNing

The older generation of overseas Chinese often tried to convince the younger generation to never marry a foreigner, because a foreigner was unreliable; a Chinese would be more reliable. #QianNing — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 25, 2025

Transgender influencers coach other adolescents on how to wheedle a testosterone prescription from a skeptical clinician. #AbigailShrier

Transgender influencers coach other adolescents on how to wheedle a testosterone prescription from a skeptical clinician. #AbigailShrier — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 24, 2025

Obviously the solution is not to stop reading the news, or even what other people have to say about that news, but we could use a moment to examine the relationship between attention span and the speed of information exchange. #JennyOdell

Obviously the solution is not to stop reading the news, or even what other people have to say about that news, but we could use a moment to examine the relationship between attention span and the speed of information exchange. #JennyOdell — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 24, 2025

One of the best guarantees of long-term love is not to insist that our partner be everything whatsoever for us. #TheSchoolOfLife

One of the best guarantees of long-term love is not to insist that our partner be everything whatsoever for us. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 24, 2025

When you escape the matrix the only thing you discover is a bigger matrix. #YuvalNoahHarari

When you escape the matrix the only thing you discover is a bigger matrix. #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 24, 2025

An imperfect person living an imperfect, limited life. #HarukiMurakami

An imperfect person living an imperfect, limited life. #HarukiMurakami — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 24, 2025

Violence in the developing world is like grief in the developed world--it's everywhere, but we just don't see it. #GaryAHaugen

Violence in the developing world is like grief in the developed world--it's everywhere, but we just don't see it. #GaryAHaugen — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 24, 2025

Social well-being... depends upon cohesion and solidarity. It implies the existence, not merely of opportunities to ascend, but of a high level of general culture, and a strong sense of common interests #MichaelSandel

Social well-being... depends upon cohesion and solidarity. It implies the existence, not merely of opportunities to ascend, but of a high level of general culture, and a strong sense of common interests #MichaelSandel — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 23, 2025

...in spite of our many fine works on morality [...] everything being reduced to appearances, there is but art and mummery in even honour, friendship, virtue, and often vice itself, of which we at length learn the secret of boasting #JeanJacquesRousseau

...in spite of our many fine works on morality [...] everything being reduced to appearances, there is but art and mummery in even honour, friendship, virtue, and often vice itself, of which we at length learn the secret of boasting #JeanJacquesRousseau — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 23, 2025

You think we're victims, because we cover our hair and wear modest clothing. But we think that it's Western women who are repressed, because they have to show their bodies--even go through surgery to change their bodies--to please men. #NicholasDKristof

You think we're victims, because we cover our hair and wear modest clothing. But we think that it's Western women who are repressed, because they have to show their bodies--even go through surgery to change their bodies--to please men. #NicholasDKristof — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 23, 2025

The goal of [asexual] liberation is simply the goal of true sexual and romantic freedom for everyone. [ It's a society that respects choice and highlights the pleasure that can be found everywhere in our lives. I believe that all this is possible. #AngelaChen

The goal of [asexual] liberation is simply the goal of true sexual and romantic freedom for everyone. [ It's a society that respects choice and highlights the pleasure that can be found everywhere in our lives. I believe that all this is possible. #AngelaChen — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 23, 2025

Assume that you live in a town with two hospitals--one large, the other small. On a given day 60 percent of those born in one of the two hospitals are boys. Which hospital is it likely to be? #NassimNicholasTaleb

Assume that you live in a town with two hospitals--one large, the other small. On a given day 60 percent of those born in one of the two hospitals are boys. Which hospital is it likely to be? #NassimNicholasTaleb — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 23, 2025

As anyone who has lived under totalitarianism can attest, there is something demeaning and eventually soul-destroying about being expected to go along with claims you do not believe to be true and cannot hold to be true. #DouglasMurray

As anyone who has lived under totalitarianism can attest, there is something demeaning and eventually soul-destroying about being expected to go along with claims you do not believe to be true and cannot hold to be true. #DouglasMurray — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 23, 2025

Eroticism is therefore seemingly most clearly manifest at the intersection between the formal and the intimate. #AlaindeBotton

Eroticism is therefore seemingly most clearly manifest at the intersection between the formal and the intimate. #AlaindeBotton — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 22, 2025

...we could be blindsided by resistance we don't understand--because those who resist may not tell us the real reasons for their opposition. It's only by understanding where the resistance is coming from that we have any hope of overcoming it. #RobinHanson

...we could be blindsided by resistance we don't understand--because those who resist may not tell us the real reasons for their opposition. It's only by understanding where the resistance is coming from that we have any hope of overcoming it. #RobinHanson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 22, 2025

And until I visited my hospital's geriatrics clinic and saw the work that the clinicians there do, I did not fully grasp the nature of the expertise involved, or how important it could be for all of us. #AtulGawande

And until I visited my hospital's geriatrics clinic and saw the work that the clinicians there do, I did not fully grasp the nature of the expertise involved, or how important it could be for all of us. #AtulGawande — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 22, 2025

An underground bunker stocked with food, guns, and ammo may have been expensive and difficult to build (especially if it was built by hand), and it may well reflect the skills and resources of its maker. But it's not attractive in the same way art is. #KevinSimler

An underground bunker stocked with food, guns, and ammo may have been expensive and difficult to build (especially if it was built by hand), and it may well reflect the skills and resources of its maker. But it's not attractive in the same way art is. #KevinSimler — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 22, 2025

Our aimless and desperate expressions on these [online] platforms don't do much for us, but they are hugely lucrative for advertisers and social media companies, since what drives the machine is not the content of information but the rate of engagement. #JennyOdell

Our aimless and desperate expressions on these [online] platforms don't do much for us, but they are hugely lucrative for advertisers and social media companies, since what drives the machine is not the content of information but the rate of engagement. #JennyOdell — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 22, 2025

There aren't enough good listeners. People tend to assert rather than analyse. They restate in many different ways the fact that they are worried, excited, sad or hopeful, and their interlocutor listens but does not help them to discover more. #TheSchoolOfLife

There aren't enough good listeners. People tend to assert rather than analyse. They restate in many different ways the fact that they are worried, excited, sad or hopeful, and their interlocutor listens but does not help them to discover more. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 22, 2025

It is wrong and immoral to seek to escape the consequences of one's acts. #MahatmaGandhi

It is wrong and immoral to seek to escape the consequences of one's acts. #MahatmaGandhi — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 21, 2025

'Venting' does not solve emotional problems as the metaphor of pipes, valves and steam suggests. #DerrenBrown

'Venting' does not solve emotional problems as the metaphor of pipes, valves and steam suggests. #DerrenBrown — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 21, 2025

[Marriage] is an association that promotes a way of life, not causes; a harmony in living, not political faiths; a bilateral loyalty, not commercial or social projects. Yet it is an association for as noble a purpose as any involved in our prior decisions. #JusticeWilliamODouglas

[Marriage] is an association that promotes a way of life, not causes; a harmony in living, not political faiths; a bilateral loyalty, not commercial or social projects. Yet it is an association for as noble a purpose as any involved in our prior decisions. #JusticeWilliamODouglas — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 21, 2025

Only by being listened to in generous, almost pedantic detail will anxieties lose their hold on us. #TheSchoolOfLife

Only by being listened to in generous, almost pedantic detail will anxieties lose their hold on us. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 21, 2025

The alternative to tragedy, or at least the risk of tragedy, is damnation. The only place outside Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is Hell. #DavidBrooks

The alternative to tragedy, or at least the risk of tragedy, is damnation. The only place outside Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is Hell. #DavidBrooks — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 21, 2025

A vocation is not found by looking within and finding your passion. It is found by looking without and asking what life is asking of us. What problem is addressed by an activity you intrinsically enjoy? #DavidBrooks

A vocation is not found by looking within and finding your passion. It is found by looking without and asking what life is asking of us. What problem is addressed by an activity you intrinsically enjoy? #DavidBrooks — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 20, 2025

In the early and middle stages of any quest, there is often a Valley of Disappointment. You expect to make progress in a linear fashion [...] It doesn't feel like you are going anywhere. It's a hallmark of any compounding process: the most powerful outcome #JamesClear

In the early and middle stages of any quest, there is often a Valley of Disappointment. You expect to make progress in a linear fashion [...] It doesn't feel like you are going anywhere. It's a hallmark of any compounding process: the most powerful outcome #JamesClear — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 20, 2025

Most parents would not allow more than one daughter to remain unmarried. So if one daughter had already declared herself a spinster, her sister had to conduct a marriage ceremony with a dead man, called marrying a tablet, to retain her independence. #StephanieCoontz

Most parents would not allow more than one daughter to remain unmarried. So if one daughter had already declared herself a spinster, her sister had to conduct a marriage ceremony with a dead man, called marrying a tablet, to retain her independence. #StephanieCoontz — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 20, 2025

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. #CharlesDarwin

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. #CharlesDarwin — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 20, 2025

...we make up reasons for what we do. Indeed, we may even claim to have wanted to do things we couldn't possibly have wanted to do. #WilliamBIrvine

...we make up reasons for what we do. Indeed, we may even claim to have wanted to do things we couldn't possibly have wanted to do. #WilliamBIrvine — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 20, 2025

Suddenly you would feel that the world had forgotten about you; your existence had become irrelevant. #QianNing

Suddenly you would feel that the world had forgotten about you; your existence had become irrelevant. #QianNing — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 19, 2025

When my spouse lovingly invests time, energy, and effort in me, I believe that I am significant. Without love, I may spend a lifetime in search of significance, self-worth, and security. When I experience love, it influences all of those needs positively. #GaryChapman

When my spouse lovingly invests time, energy, and effort in me, I believe that I am significant. Without love, I may spend a lifetime in search of significance, self-worth, and security. When I experience love, it influences all of those needs positively. #GaryChapman — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 19, 2025

[A recent PNAS study] suggests that there's a potentially-habitable Earth-like planet orbiting at least 1% of the total stars in the universe--a total of 100 billion billion Earth-like planets. #TimUrban

[A recent PNAS study] suggests that there's a potentially-habitable Earth-like planet orbiting at least 1% of the total stars in the universe--a total of 100 billion billion Earth-like planets. #TimUrban — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 19, 2025

...character is built not only through austerity and hardship. It is also built sweetly through love and pleasure. When you have deep friendships with good people, you copy and then absorb some of their best traits. #DavidBrooks

...character is built not only through austerity and hardship. It is also built sweetly through love and pleasure. When you have deep friendships with good people, you copy and then absorb some of their best traits. #DavidBrooks — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 19, 2025

Empathy, alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us. #EricHoffer

Empathy, alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us. #EricHoffer — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 19, 2025

Karma is like old software that you have written for yourself unconsciously. And, of course, you're updating it on a daily basis! Depending on the type of physical, mental, and energetic actions you perform, you write your software. #Sadhguru

Karma is like old software that you have written for yourself unconsciously. And, of course, you're updating it on a daily basis! Depending on the type of physical, mental, and energetic actions you perform, you write your software. #Sadhguru — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 19, 2025

Clearly, then, in modern erotic/romantic relationships what is at stake are the self, its emotions, interiority, and, mostly, the way these are recognized (or fail to be recognized) by others. #EvaIllouz

Clearly, then, in modern erotic/romantic relationships what is at stake are the self, its emotions, interiority, and, mostly, the way these are recognized (or fail to be recognized) by others. #EvaIllouz — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 18, 2025

On the afternoon of the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, something unexpected will happen to the turkey. It will incur a revision of belief. #NassimNicholasTaleb

On the afternoon of the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, something unexpected will happen to the turkey. It will incur a revision of belief. #NassimNicholasTaleb — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 18, 2025

Addams observed a phenomenon one still sees frequently today: Many people graduate from college energetic, lively, and impressive, but by age thirty they have become duller and more cynical versions of themselves. #DavidBrooks

Addams observed a phenomenon one still sees frequently today: Many people graduate from college energetic, lively, and impressive, but by age thirty they have become duller and more cynical versions of themselves. #DavidBrooks — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 18, 2025

The start receives such disproportionate attention because it isn't deemed to be just one phase among many; for the Romantic, it contains in a concentrated form everything significant about love as a whole. #AlaindeBotton

The start receives such disproportionate attention because it isn't deemed to be just one phase among many; for the Romantic, it contains in a concentrated form everything significant about love as a whole. #AlaindeBotton — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 18, 2025

[Asexual people] have developed a new lens that prioritizes what is just over what is supposedly natural. #AngelaChen

[Asexual people] have developed a new lens that prioritizes what is just over what is supposedly natural. #AngelaChen — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 18, 2025

Purity is not just about the body, it is about the soul. If you know that you have divinity in you, you will act accordingly #JonathanHaidt

Purity is not just about the body, it is about the soul. If you know that you have divinity in you, you will act accordingly #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 17, 2025

Consider the role that creative people play in cities. They are typically starving a bit, because it is virtually impossible to be commercially successful as an artist, and that hunger is partly what motivates them (do not underestimate the utility of necessity) #JordanPeterson

Consider the role that creative people play in cities. They are typically starving a bit, because it is virtually impossible to be commercially successful as an artist, and that hunger is partly what motivates them (do not underestimate the utility of necessity) #JordanPeterson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 17, 2025

We easily forget how much love is connected to being able to look after something. We turn inwards and become what is called selfish when the social problems feel too vast and intractable and our own efforts start to look puny and pointless. #TheSchoolOfLife

We easily forget how much love is connected to being able to look after something. We turn inwards and become what is called selfish when the social problems feel too vast and intractable and our own efforts start to look puny and pointless. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 17, 2025

Britain and the US are not the homes of free trade; in fact, for a long time they were the most protectionist countries in the world. #HaJoonChang

Britain and the US are not the homes of free trade; in fact, for a long time they were the most protectionist countries in the world. #HaJoonChang — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 17, 2025

Bad taste can appal, but once one understands its origins, sympathy is a more appropriate response. What is 'bad' in bad taste is not the person, but the prior difficulty for which they are seeking to compensate through their decor. #TheSchoolOfLife

Bad taste can appal, but once one understands its origins, sympathy is a more appropriate response. What is 'bad' in bad taste is not the person, but the prior difficulty for which they are seeking to compensate through their decor. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 17, 2025

We fought a military war; our opponents fought a political one. We sought physical attrition; our opponents aimed for our psychological exhaustion. In the process we lost sight of one of the cardinal maxims of guerrilla war: the guerrilla wins if he does not lose. #HenryKissinger

We fought a military war; our opponents fought a political one. We sought physical attrition; our opponents aimed for our psychological exhaustion. In the process we lost sight of one of the cardinal maxims of guerrilla war: the guerrilla wins if he does not lose. #HenryKissinger — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 16, 2025

One survey conducted in 2010 estimated that the average parent spends [USD] 6,800 on baby items before a child's first birthday. #CharlesDuhigg

One survey conducted in 2010 estimated that the average parent spends [USD] 6,800 on baby items before a child's first birthday. #CharlesDuhigg — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 16, 2025

In place of a true-type people, born of and grown on the soil [...] a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman #OswaldSpengler

In place of a true-type people, born of and grown on the soil [...] a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman #OswaldSpengler — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 16, 2025

The interesting thing about text is that, as a medium, it separates you from the person you are speaking with, so you can act differently from how you would in person or even on the phone. #AzizAnsari

The interesting thing about text is that, as a medium, it separates you from the person you are speaking with, so you can act differently from how you would in person or even on the phone. #AzizAnsari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 16, 2025

Happiness is not found in self contemplation; it is perceived only when it is reflected from another. #DavidBrooks

Happiness is not found in self contemplation; it is perceived only when it is reflected from another. #DavidBrooks — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 16, 2025

When people ask the Holy Question, one of the things they are hoping for is a set of principles or goals that can guide their actions and give their choices meaning or value. #JonathanHaidt

When people ask the Holy Question, one of the things they are hoping for is a set of principles or goals that can guide their actions and give their choices meaning or value. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 16, 2025

The percentage of out-of-wedlock births doubled in England during the eighteenth century and quadrupled in France and Germany between the 1740s and the 1820s. #StephanieCoontz

The percentage of out-of-wedlock births doubled in England during the eighteenth century and quadrupled in France and Germany between the 1740s and the 1820s. #StephanieCoontz — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 15, 2025

Lack of courage often hinders us from accomplishing the positive things that we would like to do. #GaryChapman

Lack of courage often hinders us from accomplishing the positive things that we would like to do. #GaryChapman — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 15, 2025

The temptation to continue to creep on your ex over the Internet is nearly universal. One study found that 88 percent of those who continued to have access to their ex's Facebook page said they sometimes monitored their ex's activities #AzizAnsari

The temptation to continue to creep on your ex over the Internet is nearly universal. One study found that 88 percent of those who continued to have access to their ex's Facebook page said they sometimes monitored their ex's activities #AzizAnsari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 15, 2025

If too little fear is induced, the activity is boring; if too much is induced, it becomes no longer play but terror. Nobody but the child himself or herself knows the right dose. #JonathanHaidt

If too little fear is induced, the activity is boring; if too much is induced, it becomes no longer play but terror. Nobody but the child himself or herself knows the right dose. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 15, 2025

Madness of crowds is ignorance: a mediocre education system has left the populace scientifically illiterate, at the mercy of their cognitive biases, and thus defenseless against airhead celebrities, cable-news gladiators, and other corruptions from popular culture. #StevenPinker

Madness of crowds is ignorance: a mediocre education system has left the populace scientifically illiterate, at the mercy of their cognitive biases, and thus defenseless against airhead celebrities, cable-news gladiators, and other corruptions from popular culture. #StevenPinker — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 15, 2025

Difference between the genius of the British constitution which protects and governs North America, and that of the mercantile company which oppresses and domineers in the East Indies, cannot perhaps be better illustrated than by the different state of those countries. #AdamSmith

Difference between the genius of the British constitution which protects and governs North America, and that of the mercantile company which oppresses and domineers in the East Indies, cannot perhaps be better illustrated than by the different state of those countries. #AdamSmith — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 14, 2025

Despite our best efforts to clean it of its peculiarities, sex will never be either simple or nice in the ways we might like it to be. It is not fundamentally democratic or kind; it is bound up with cruelty, transgression and the desire for subjugation... #AlaindeBotton

Despite our best efforts to clean it of its peculiarities, sex will never be either simple or nice in the ways we might like it to be. It is not fundamentally democratic or kind; it is bound up with cruelty, transgression and the desire for subjugation... #AlaindeBotton — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 14, 2025

What we end up producing as a result of that work may well be important, but aside from that, our ability to work with utter concentration and to devote ourselves to it so completely that we forget the passage of time is its own irreplaceable reward. #HarukiMurakami

What we end up producing as a result of that work may well be important, but aside from that, our ability to work with utter concentration and to devote ourselves to it so completely that we forget the passage of time is its own irreplaceable reward. #HarukiMurakami — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 14, 2025

Even when we think we react to what another person has done, to President Trump's latest tweet, or to a distant childhood memory, the truth is we always react to our immediate bodily sensations. #YuvalNoahHarari

Even when we think we react to what another person has done, to President Trump's latest tweet, or to a distant childhood memory, the truth is we always react to our immediate bodily sensations. #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 14, 2025

The Pyrrhonian skeptics were docile citizens who followed customs and traditions whenever possible, but taught themselves to systematically doubt everything, and thus attain a level of serenity. But while conservative in their habits, they were rabid in their fight against dogma.

The Pyrrhonian skeptics were docile citizens who followed customs and traditions whenever possible, but taught themselves to systematically doubt everything, and thus attain a level of serenity. But while conservative in their habits, they were rabid in their fight against dogma. — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 14, 2025

You should be far more concerned with your current trajectory than with your current results. #JamesClear

You should be far more concerned with your current trajectory than with your current results. #JamesClear — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 14, 2025

Children [don't] wait until every practical detail has been sorted out before beginning to imagine fresh schemes and develop original proposals. They know the gist of what has to be done and are keen to sketch out at speed the broad strokes of their plans. #TheSchoolOfLife

Children [don't] wait until every practical detail has been sorted out before beginning to imagine fresh schemes and develop original proposals. They know the gist of what has to be done and are keen to sketch out at speed the broad strokes of their plans. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 13, 2025

The savage man entirely lacks this admirable talent, and for want of wisdom and reason he always responds recklessly to the first promptings of human feeling. #JeanJacquesRousseau

The savage man entirely lacks this admirable talent, and for want of wisdom and reason he always responds recklessly to the first promptings of human feeling. #JeanJacquesRousseau — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 13, 2025

Without Contraries is no progression. Attraction and Repulsion, Reason and Energy, Love and Hate, are necessary to Human existence. #WilliamBlake

Without Contraries is no progression. Attraction and Repulsion, Reason and Energy, Love and Hate, are necessary to Human existence. #WilliamBlake — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 13, 2025

While a good story must give me a role, and must extend beyond my horizons, it need not be true. A story can be pure fiction, and yet provide me with an identity and make me feel that my life has meaning. #YuvalNoahHarari

While a good story must give me a role, and must extend beyond my horizons, it need not be true. A story can be pure fiction, and yet provide me with an identity and make me feel that my life has meaning. #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 13, 2025

We are under undue and unfair pressure to smile. But almost nothing will go entirely well: we can expect frustration, misunderstanding, misfortune and rebuffs. We should be allowed to be melancholy. #TheSchoolOfLife

We are under undue and unfair pressure to smile. But almost nothing will go entirely well: we can expect frustration, misunderstanding, misfortune and rebuffs. We should be allowed to be melancholy. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 13, 2025

Our ego or self-conception could be pictured as a leaking balloon, forever requiring the helium of external love to remain inflated, and ever vulnerable to the smallest pinpricks of neglect. #AlaindeBotton

Our ego or self-conception could be pictured as a leaking balloon, forever requiring the helium of external love to remain inflated, and ever vulnerable to the smallest pinpricks of neglect. #AlaindeBotton — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 13, 2025

Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward. #VictorKiam

Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward. #VictorKiam — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 12, 2025

If someone I like does not return my feeling, it may be disappointing or even painful, but it is not a reflection on my personal worth. #NathanielBranden

If someone I like does not return my feeling, it may be disappointing or even painful, but it is not a reflection on my personal worth. #NathanielBranden — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 12, 2025

Mistakes are made--or imagined--by man, the creature with the overloaded Brain who separates himself from the supporting network of natural laws by interfering and trying too hard. #BenjaminHoff

Mistakes are made--or imagined--by man, the creature with the overloaded Brain who separates himself from the supporting network of natural laws by interfering and trying too hard. #BenjaminHoff — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 12, 2025

Religions understand this: they know that to sustain goodness, it helps to have an audience. The faiths hence provide us with a gallery of witnesses at the ceremonial beginnings of our marriages and thereafter they entrust a vigilant role to their deities. #AlaindeBotton

Religions understand this: they know that to sustain goodness, it helps to have an audience. The faiths hence provide us with a gallery of witnesses at the ceremonial beginnings of our marriages and thereafter they entrust a vigilant role to their deities. #AlaindeBotton — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 12, 2025

The debate over the priority of the right over the good is ultimately a debate about the meaning of human freedom. #MichaelSandel

The debate over the priority of the right over the good is ultimately a debate about the meaning of human freedom. #MichaelSandel — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 12, 2025

[My spouse] has painfully confessed it and requested forgiveness, I have the option of justice or forgiveness. If I choose justice and seek to pay her back or make her pay for her wrongdoing, I am making myself the judge and her the felon. Intimacy becomes impossible #GaryChapman

[My spouse] has painfully confessed it and requested forgiveness, I have the option of justice or forgiveness. If I choose justice and seek to pay her back or make her pay for her wrongdoing, I am making myself the judge and her the felon. Intimacy becomes impossible #GaryChapman — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 12, 2025

The most important person to impress [...] is yourself. #TimUrban

The most important person to impress [...] is yourself. #TimUrban — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 11, 2025

Empathy is the most radical of human emotions. #GloriaSteinem

Empathy is the most radical of human emotions. #GloriaSteinem — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 11, 2025

The face of nature becomes indifferent to him as it grows familiar. He sees in it always the same order, the same successions: he has not understanding enough to wonder at the greatest miracles #JeanJacquesRousseau

The face of nature becomes indifferent to him as it grows familiar. He sees in it always the same order, the same successions: he has not understanding enough to wonder at the greatest miracles #JeanJacquesRousseau — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 11, 2025

You might think I had a massive advantage when it came to acquiring confidence because, as a white boy in a rich, free western country, I was under the heavy impression that this was my world and I was the default human [...] just a wrong-headed sense of entitlement. #RobertWebb

You might think I had a massive advantage when it came to acquiring confidence because, as a white boy in a rich, free western country, I was under the heavy impression that this was my world and I was the default human [...] just a wrong-headed sense of entitlement. #RobertWebb — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 11, 2025

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again. #RichardBranson

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again. #RichardBranson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 11, 2025

Simply forcing people to justify their opinions with explicit reasons does very little to make people more reasonable, and may even do the opposite. But forcing people to confront their ignorance of essential facts does make people more moderate. #JoshuaGreene

Simply forcing people to justify their opinions with explicit reasons does very little to make people more reasonable, and may even do the opposite. But forcing people to confront their ignorance of essential facts does make people more moderate. #JoshuaGreene — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 11, 2025

She rarely feels a bold creativeness, and usually she lacks the technique of self-expression; but in her conversation, her letters, her literary essays, her sketches, she manifests an original sensitivity. #SimonedeBeauvoir

She rarely feels a bold creativeness, and usually she lacks the technique of self-expression; but in her conversation, her letters, her literary essays, her sketches, she manifests an original sensitivity. #SimonedeBeauvoir — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 10, 2025

Of course, it is extremely important to go on doing academic research and to publish the results in scientific journals that only a few experts read. But it is equally important to communicate the latest scientific theories to the general public... #YuvalNoahHarari

Of course, it is extremely important to go on doing academic research and to publish the results in scientific journals that only a few experts read. But it is equally important to communicate the latest scientific theories to the general public... #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 10, 2025

It is time to liberate 'companionship' from the shackles of coupledom, and make it as widely and as easily available as sexual liberators wanted sex to be. #TheSchoolOfLife

It is time to liberate 'companionship' from the shackles of coupledom, and make it as widely and as easily available as sexual liberators wanted sex to be. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 10, 2025

...a thing becomes so because I feel it to be so or say that it is so. At its most extreme, it is a reversion to a form of magical thinking. Precisely the thinking that the Enlightenment thinkers chased out. #DouglasMurray

...a thing becomes so because I feel it to be so or say that it is so. At its most extreme, it is a reversion to a form of magical thinking. Precisely the thinking that the Enlightenment thinkers chased out. #DouglasMurray — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 10, 2025

The Buddha taught that the three basic realities of the universe are that everything is constantly changing, nothing has any enduring essence, and nothing is completely satisfying. #YuvalNoahHarari

The Buddha taught that the three basic realities of the universe are that everything is constantly changing, nothing has any enduring essence, and nothing is completely satisfying. #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 10, 2025

Never invest in a business you cannot understand. #WarrenBuffett

Never invest in a business you cannot understand. #WarrenBuffett — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 10, 2025

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Pain does not matter to a man. #ErnestHemingway

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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