English Quotes

Sorting theory tells us how (and whether) to arrange our offices. Caching theory tells us how to fill our closets. Scheduling theory tells us how to fill our time. #BrianChristian — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 1, 2025

...asexual implies a slew of other, negative associations: passionless, uptight, boring, robotic, cold, prude, frigid, lacking, broken. These, especially broken, are the words aces use again and again to describe how we are perceived and made to feel. #AngelaChen

...asexual implies a slew of other, negative associations: passionless, uptight, boring, robotic, cold, prude, frigid, lacking, broken. These, especially broken, are the words aces use again and again to describe how we are perceived and made to feel. #AngelaChen — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 1, 2025

Rather than complain about how awful most of our dates turn out to be, we should get interested in understanding--and even sympathising with--the varieties of human brokenness. #TheSchoolOfLife

Rather than complain about how awful most of our dates turn out to be, we should get interested in understanding--and even sympathising with--the varieties of human brokenness. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 30, 2025

I asked him if there was a time in American history when people had acquired a consciousness of absolute right and wrong. His immediate answer was, No. After some thinking he said, Yes, during the Puritan era. Still a while later, he added, At the present, too. #QianNing

I asked him if there was a time in American history when people had acquired a consciousness of absolute right and wrong. His immediate answer was, No. After some thinking he said, Yes, during the Puritan era. Still a while later, he added, At the present, too. #QianNing — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 30, 2025

It is impossible to analyze the meaning of life in the abstract, or in general, or for some mythical and perfectly rational being. #JonathanHaidt

It is impossible to analyze the meaning of life in the abstract, or in general, or for some mythical and perfectly rational being. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 30, 2025

To love without knowing how to love wounds the person we love. #ThichNhatHanh

To love without knowing how to love wounds the person we love. #ThichNhatHanh — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 30, 2025

Dominance is the kind of status we get from being able to intimidate others (think Joseph Stalin), and on the low-status side is governed by fear and other avoidance instincts. #RobinHanson

Dominance is the kind of status we get from being able to intimidate others (think Joseph Stalin), and on the low-status side is governed by fear and other avoidance instincts. #RobinHanson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 29, 2025

People have always loved a love story. But for most of the past our ancestors did not try to live in one. #StephanieCoontz

People have always loved a love story. But for most of the past our ancestors did not try to live in one. #StephanieCoontz — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 29, 2025

Humanitarian reforms such as the elimination of cruel punishment, the dissemination of empathy-inducing novels, and the abolition of slavery were met with fierce opposition in their time by ecclesiastical authorities and their apologists. #StevenPinker

Humanitarian reforms such as the elimination of cruel punishment, the dissemination of empathy-inducing novels, and the abolition of slavery were met with fierce opposition in their time by ecclesiastical authorities and their apologists. #StevenPinker — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 29, 2025

But, a society which holds that our culture consists of the cathedral, the playhouse and the playing field, the shopping mall and Shakespeare, has a chance [of survival]. #DouglasMurray

But, a society which holds that our culture consists of the cathedral, the playhouse and the playing field, the shopping mall and Shakespeare, has a chance [of survival]. #DouglasMurray — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 29, 2025

People's buying habits are more likely to change when they go through a major life event. #CharlesDuhigg

People's buying habits are more likely to change when they go through a major life event. #CharlesDuhigg — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 29, 2025

We all deal with setbacks but in the long run, the quality of our lives often depends on the quality of our habits. #JamesClear

We all deal with setbacks but in the long run, the quality of our lives often depends on the quality of our habits. #JamesClear — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 28, 2025

In large swaths of academia and journalism the fallacies are applied with gusto, with ideas attacked or suppressed because their proponents, sometimes from centuries past, bear unpleasant odors and stains. #StevenPinker

In large swaths of academia and journalism the fallacies are applied with gusto, with ideas attacked or suppressed because their proponents, sometimes from centuries past, bear unpleasant odors and stains. #StevenPinker — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 28, 2025

As societies become more educated and secure, the components of the legacy religious institutions can be unbundled. #StevenPinker

As societies become more educated and secure, the components of the legacy religious institutions can be unbundled. #StevenPinker — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 28, 2025

To live both the yin and the yang, we need guidance. Buddha is history's most perceptive guide to the first half; he is a constant but gentle reminder of the yin of internal work. #JonathanHaidt

To live both the yin and the yang, we need guidance. Buddha is history's most perceptive guide to the first half; he is a constant but gentle reminder of the yin of internal work. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 28, 2025

We're reluctant to say that we might suffer from visual chaos. It can easily come across as unduly fussy or a touch pretentious. That's why, at a political level, the pursuit of calm design, in cities or the countryside, is never a priority. #TheSchoolOfLife

We're reluctant to say that we might suffer from visual chaos. It can easily come across as unduly fussy or a touch pretentious. That's why, at a political level, the pursuit of calm design, in cities or the countryside, is never a priority. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 28, 2025

Americans are not nearly so free as we think we are, or as we should be. To achieve the genuine freedom to which we are entitled as human beings [...] we need economic democracy every bit as much as we need political democracy. #BernieSanders

Americans are not nearly so free as we think we are, or as we should be. To achieve the genuine freedom to which we are entitled as human beings [...] we need economic democracy every bit as much as we need political democracy. #BernieSanders — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 28, 2025

Nothing captures the biological argument better than the famous New Age slogan: 'Happiness begins within.' #YuvalNoahHarari

Nothing captures the biological argument better than the famous New Age slogan: 'Happiness begins within.' #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 27, 2025

It is not death that the very old tell me they fear. It is what happens short of death--losing their hearing, their memory, their best friends, their way of life. As Felix put it to me, Old age is a continuous series of losses. #AtulGawande

It is not death that the very old tell me they fear. It is what happens short of death--losing their hearing, their memory, their best friends, their way of life. As Felix put it to me, Old age is a continuous series of losses. #AtulGawande — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 27, 2025

English ladies financed the Atlantic slave trade [on] London stock exchange, without ever setting foot in either Africa or the Caribbean [;] sweetened their four o'clock tea with snow-white sugar cubes produced in hellish plantations-about which they knew nothing #YuvalNoahHarari

English ladies financed the Atlantic slave trade [on] London stock exchange, without ever setting foot in either Africa or the Caribbean [;] sweetened their four o'clock tea with snow-white sugar cubes produced in hellish plantations-about which they knew nothing #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 27, 2025

[Nietzsche] was encouraging us to engage consciously with our development, to value the totality of ourselves and of our world. We should, he would advise us, question everything, live dangerously, and above all find meaning in self-knowledge. #DerrenBrown

[Nietzsche] was encouraging us to engage consciously with our development, to value the totality of ourselves and of our world. We should, he would advise us, question everything, live dangerously, and above all find meaning in self-knowledge. #DerrenBrown — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 27, 2025

For white men and women aged 45--54, deaths of despair increased threefold from 1990 to 2017. #MichaelSandel

For white men and women aged 45--54, deaths of despair increased threefold from 1990 to 2017. #MichaelSandel — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 27, 2025

...conspicuous and inconspicuous consumption follow different psychological rules [...] conspicuous consumption is a zero-sum game... #JonathanHaidt

...conspicuous and inconspicuous consumption follow different psychological rules [...] conspicuous consumption is a zero-sum game... #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 26, 2025

In sex, you are really in a relationship with yourself via the mediation of the other. The other helps you to discover the reality of pleasure. In love, on the contrary, the mediation of the other is enough in itself. #AlainBadiou

In sex, you are really in a relationship with yourself via the mediation of the other. The other helps you to discover the reality of pleasure. In love, on the contrary, the mediation of the other is enough in itself. #AlainBadiou — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 26, 2025

A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably. #LudwigWittgenstein

A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably. #LudwigWittgenstein — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 26, 2025

The mind is an adaptation designed by natural selection, but that does not mean that everything we think, feel, and do is biologically adaptive. #StevenPinker

The mind is an adaptation designed by natural selection, but that does not mean that everything we think, feel, and do is biologically adaptive. #StevenPinker — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 26, 2025

The real problem with robots is not their own artificial intelligence but rather the natural stupidity and cruelty of their human masters. #YuvalNoahHarari

The real problem with robots is not their own artificial intelligence but rather the natural stupidity and cruelty of their human masters. #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 26, 2025

...completely honest self-revelation, and through that, a vision of the moral life [...] trying to create a new method of character formation and implying a new type of hero, a hero of ruthlessly honest but sympathetic self-understanding. #DavidBrooks

...completely honest self-revelation, and through that, a vision of the moral life [...] trying to create a new method of character formation and implying a new type of hero, a hero of ruthlessly honest but sympathetic self-understanding. #DavidBrooks — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 25, 2025

The fact is that when you make the other suffer, he will try to find relief by making you suffer more. The result is an escalation of suffering on both sides. #ThichNhatHanh

The fact is that when you make the other suffer, he will try to find relief by making you suffer more. The result is an escalation of suffering on both sides. #ThichNhatHanh — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 25, 2025

Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter. #JohnMuir

Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter. #JohnMuir — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 25, 2025

We thought it was our perfections that would attract admiration; we now see it is our sorrows that cement fellow-feeling. #TheSchoolOfLife

We thought it was our perfections that would attract admiration; we now see it is our sorrows that cement fellow-feeling. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 25, 2025

We see nothing strange in the remarkable notion that we should try to find a job we love. #TheSchoolOfLife

We see nothing strange in the remarkable notion that we should try to find a job we love. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 25, 2025

We set up secret side groups. It's meant to be a collaboration between twenty equals. But we go out and hire two external consultants. It sounds Machiavellian--but it's merely the outcome of a very nervous personality with low faith in others... #TheSchoolOfLife

We set up secret side groups. It's meant to be a collaboration between twenty equals. But we go out and hire two external consultants. It sounds Machiavellian--but it's merely the outcome of a very nervous personality with low faith in others... #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 24, 2025

A great deal of research in social psychology shows that people are warmer and more trusting toward people who look like them, dress like them, talk like them, or even just share their first name or birthday. #JonathanHaidt

A great deal of research in social psychology shows that people are warmer and more trusting toward people who look like them, dress like them, talk like them, or even just share their first name or birthday. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 24, 2025

[Before building], the architect surveys and tests the ground to see if it can support the weight; [likewise] the wise legislator doesn't start by laying down his good laws but by investigating whether the populace they are intended for is in a condition to receive them #Rousseau

[Before building], the architect surveys and tests the ground to see if it can support the weight; [likewise] the wise legislator doesn't start by laying down his good laws but by investigating whether the populace they are intended for is in a condition to receive them #Rousseau — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 24, 2025

Since defeat in the Struggle must always be envisaged, the preparation of one's own successors is as important as what one does for victory. #AntonioGramsci

Since defeat in the Struggle must always be envisaged, the preparation of one's own successors is as important as what one does for victory. #AntonioGramsci — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 24, 2025

We tried buying local once; it was called the Middle Ages. #RussRoberts

We tried buying local once; it was called the Middle Ages. #RussRoberts — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 24, 2025

Market forces take our hand and guide us along the paths of least resistance, and as information is disseminated according to outrage rather than truth-value #DerrenBrown

Market forces take our hand and guide us along the paths of least resistance, and as information is disseminated according to outrage rather than truth-value #DerrenBrown — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 24, 2025

When you live by the memory of several books, you are intellectual. When you live by the memory of several generations of people, you become a truly compassionate human being. But when you live beyond the memory of generations of people, you become a mystic. #Sadhguru

When you live by the memory of several books, you are intellectual. When you live by the memory of several generations of people, you become a truly compassionate human being. But when you live beyond the memory of generations of people, you become a mystic. #Sadhguru — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 23, 2025

It is easy to get bogged down trying to find the optimal plan for change: the fastest way to lose weight, the best program to build muscle, the perfect idea for a side hustle. We're so focused on figuring out the best approach that we never get around to taking action #JamesClear

It is easy to get bogged down trying to find the optimal plan for change: the fastest way to lose weight, the best program to build muscle, the perfect idea for a side hustle. We're so focused on figuring out the best approach that we never get around to taking action #JamesClear — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 23, 2025

Kinship and feelings for one another cannot be legislated out by a political decision. #LeeKuanYew

Kinship and feelings for one another cannot be legislated out by a political decision. #LeeKuanYew — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 23, 2025

What we make an effort to learn and what we achieve is based, at least in part, on what we think is possible and appropriate to us. #NathanielBranden

What we make an effort to learn and what we achieve is based, at least in part, on what we think is possible and appropriate to us. #NathanielBranden — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 23, 2025

Women feel things deeply. We empathize. For good reason, when asked to identify their best friend, most men name their wives; most women name another woman. #AbigailShrier

Women feel things deeply. We empathize. For good reason, when asked to identify their best friend, most men name their wives; most women name another woman. #AbigailShrier — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 23, 2025

[Chirico]: In the face of the increasingly materialist and pragmatic orientation of our age... it would not be eccentric in the future to contemplate a society in which those who live for the pleasures of the mind will no longer have the right to demand their place... #JennyOdell

[Chirico]: In the face of the increasingly materialist and pragmatic orientation of our age... it would not be eccentric in the future to contemplate a society in which those who live for the pleasures of the mind will no longer have the right to demand their place... #JennyOdell — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 22, 2025

Ancient hunter-gatherers mastered a very wide variety of skills in order to survive, which is why it would be immensely difficult to design a robotic hunter-gatherer. #YuvalNoahHarari

Ancient hunter-gatherers mastered a very wide variety of skills in order to survive, which is why it would be immensely difficult to design a robotic hunter-gatherer. #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 22, 2025

Few gods, nations, or revolutions can sustain themselves without martyrs. #YuvalNoahHarari

Few gods, nations, or revolutions can sustain themselves without martyrs. #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 22, 2025

The world is immeasurably complex and the private stock of reason is small. #DavidBrooks

The world is immeasurably complex and the private stock of reason is small. #DavidBrooks — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 22, 2025

Hesitation--inaction--is just as irrevocable as action. #BrianChristian

Hesitation--inaction--is just as irrevocable as action. #BrianChristian — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 22, 2025

Shyness is the fear of social disapproval or humiliation, while introversion is a preference for environments that are not overstimulating. Shyness is inherently painful; introversion is not. #SusanCain

Shyness is the fear of social disapproval or humiliation, while introversion is a preference for environments that are not overstimulating. Shyness is inherently painful; introversion is not. #SusanCain — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 22, 2025

Human beings naturally continue doing things they like, and they don't continue what they don't like. #HarukiMurakami

Human beings naturally continue doing things they like, and they don't continue what they don't like. #HarukiMurakami — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 21, 2025

But I also realized for the first time that my wish to preserve this [natural] place was also a self-preservation instinct, insofar as I needed spaces like this too, and insofar as I couldn't feel truly at home in a solely human community. I withered without this... #JennyOdell

But I also realized for the first time that my wish to preserve this [natural] place was also a self-preservation instinct, insofar as I needed spaces like this too, and insofar as I couldn't feel truly at home in a solely human community. I withered without this... #JennyOdell — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 21, 2025

Among the legacies of human thought, right-wrong consciousness is the most deeply rooted. #QianNing

Among the legacies of human thought, right-wrong consciousness is the most deeply rooted. #QianNing — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 21, 2025

...the world existed long before you and will last long after you, and that in the brief span of your life you have been thrown by fate, by history, by chance, by evolution, or by God into a specific place with specific problems and needs. #DavidBrooks

...the world existed long before you and will last long after you, and that in the brief span of your life you have been thrown by fate, by history, by chance, by evolution, or by God into a specific place with specific problems and needs. #DavidBrooks — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 21, 2025

I now see how owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we will ever do. #BreneBrown

I now see how owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we will ever do. #BreneBrown — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 21, 2025

The natural instinct is to meet the primitive with the primitive. Our own reptile nature wants to attack their reptile selves and beat them back into their hole. #TheSchoolOfLife

The natural instinct is to meet the primitive with the primitive. Our own reptile nature wants to attack their reptile selves and beat them back into their hole. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 21, 2025

...many ancient texts emphasize practice and habit rather than factual knowledge. #JonathanHaidt

...many ancient texts emphasize practice and habit rather than factual knowledge. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 20, 2025

Love is the strongest kind of army because it generates no resistance. #DavidBrooks

Love is the strongest kind of army because it generates no resistance. #DavidBrooks — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 20, 2025

The cold hand of the past emerges from the grave of our ancestors, grips us by the neck and directs our gaze towards a single future. We have felt that grip from the moment we were born, so we assume that it is a natural and inescapable part of who we are. #YuvalNoahHarari

The cold hand of the past emerges from the grave of our ancestors, grips us by the neck and directs our gaze towards a single future. We have felt that grip from the moment we were born, so we assume that it is a natural and inescapable part of who we are. #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 20, 2025

... in the light of our new knowledge that what Freud believed to be biological was often a cultural reaction, one sees simply that Victorian culture gave women many reasons to envy men: the same conditions, in fact, that the feminists fought against. #BettyFriedan

... in the light of our new knowledge that what Freud believed to be biological was often a cultural reaction, one sees simply that Victorian culture gave women many reasons to envy men: the same conditions, in fact, that the feminists fought against. #BettyFriedan — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 20, 2025

The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn but to unlearn. #GloriaSteinem

The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn but to unlearn. #GloriaSteinem — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 19, 2025

Defined by hypocrisy, ignorance, and illogic. In a society like that, a man attempting a humble and ethical life would certainly appear backward for him, good would be bad, up would be down, productivity would be destruction, and indeed, uselessness would be useful #JennyOdell

Defined by hypocrisy, ignorance, and illogic. In a society like that, a man attempting a humble and ethical life would certainly appear backward for him, good would be bad, up would be down, productivity would be destruction, and indeed, uselessness would be useful #JennyOdell — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 19, 2025

The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive. #BettyFriedan

The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive. #BettyFriedan — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 19, 2025

When I'm running I don't have to talk to anybody and don't have to listen to anybody. This is a part of my day I can't do without. #HarukiMurakami

When I'm running I don't have to talk to anybody and don't have to listen to anybody. This is a part of my day I can't do without. #HarukiMurakami — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 19, 2025

Remember that people typically don't change all that much. #RayDalio

Remember that people typically don't change all that much. #RayDalio — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 19, 2025

Hundreds of habits influence our days--they guide how we get dressed in the morning, talk to our kids, and fall asleep at night; they impact what we eat for lunch, how we do business, and whether we exercise or have a beer after work. #CharlesDuhigg

Hundreds of habits influence our days--they guide how we get dressed in the morning, talk to our kids, and fall asleep at night; they impact what we eat for lunch, how we do business, and whether we exercise or have a beer after work. #CharlesDuhigg — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 19, 2025

We are all, by nature, hypocrites, and this is why it is so hard for us to follow the Golden Rule faithfully. #JonathanHaidt

We are all, by nature, hypocrites, and this is why it is so hard for us to follow the Golden Rule faithfully. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 18, 2025

Without my thinking about them, words came from my mouth: in this world there is nothing at all... I felt that I understood nothing. #MasanobuFukuoka

Without my thinking about them, words came from my mouth: in this world there is nothing at all... I felt that I understood nothing. #MasanobuFukuoka — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 18, 2025

A feeling of rage doe very little to rectify the perceived injustice. #DerrenBrown

A feeling of rage doe very little to rectify the perceived injustice. #DerrenBrown — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 18, 2025

To repeat, we are not saying that the problems facing students, and young people more generally, are minor or all in their heads. We are saying that what people choose to do in their heads will determine how those real problems affect them. #JonathanHaidt

To repeat, we are not saying that the problems facing students, and young people more generally, are minor or all in their heads. We are saying that what people choose to do in their heads will determine how those real problems affect them. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 18, 2025

In an ideal world, marriage vows would be entirely rewritten. At the altar, a couple would speak thus: We accept not to panic when, some years from now, what we are doing today will seem like the worst decision of our lives. Yet we promise not to look around... #AlaindeBotton

In an ideal world, marriage vows would be entirely rewritten. At the altar, a couple would speak thus: We accept not to panic when, some years from now, what we are doing today will seem like the worst decision of our lives. Yet we promise not to look around... #AlaindeBotton — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 18, 2025

Assisted living is far harder than assisted death, but its possibilities are far greater, as well. #AtulGawande

Assisted living is far harder than assisted death, but its possibilities are far greater, as well. #AtulGawande — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 18, 2025

Genes contribute, somehow, to just about every aspect of our personalities... the degree to which you like jazz, spicy foods, and abstract art; your likelihood of getting a divorce or dying in a car crash; your degree of religiosity, and your political orientation #JonathanHaidt

Genes contribute, somehow, to just about every aspect of our personalities... the degree to which you like jazz, spicy foods, and abstract art; your likelihood of getting a divorce or dying in a car crash; your degree of religiosity, and your political orientation #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 17, 2025

He who intends to kill the guilty sometimes faultlessly shed the blood of the innocents... In short, the end justifies the means. #HenryKissinger

He who intends to kill the guilty sometimes faultlessly shed the blood of the innocents... In short, the end justifies the means. #HenryKissinger — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 17, 2025

...love is a skill, not just an enthusiasm. #AlaindeBotton

...love is a skill, not just an enthusiasm. #AlaindeBotton — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 17, 2025

My work is not a piece of writing designed to meet the needs of an immediate public, but was done to last for ever. #Thucydides

My work is not a piece of writing designed to meet the needs of an immediate public, but was done to last for ever. #Thucydides — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 17, 2025

My experience is what I agree to attend to. Only those items which I notice shape my mind--without selective interest, experience is an utter chaos. #JennyOdell

My experience is what I agree to attend to. Only those items which I notice shape my mind--without selective interest, experience is an utter chaos. #JennyOdell — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 17, 2025

Living on our planet, today, requires a lot more imagination than we are made to have. We lack imagination and repress it in others. #NassimNicholasTaleb

Living on our planet, today, requires a lot more imagination than we are made to have. We lack imagination and repress it in others. #NassimNicholasTaleb — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 17, 2025

Sometimes, it is simply better to leave Rome to the Romans. #ErinMeyer

Sometimes, it is simply better to leave Rome to the Romans. #ErinMeyer — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 16, 2025

Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both. #CWrightMills

Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both. #CWrightMills — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 16, 2025

We are not always humiliated by failing at things, he suggested; we are humiliated only if we invest our pride and sense of worth in a given aspiration or achievement and then are disappointed in our pursuit of it. #AlaindeBotton

We are not always humiliated by failing at things, he suggested; we are humiliated only if we invest our pride and sense of worth in a given aspiration or achievement and then are disappointed in our pursuit of it. #AlaindeBotton — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 16, 2025

...Romanticism, an ideology that lulls us into the unhelpful belief that love is not something to be worked at, because it is a feeling and not a skill. We need only surrender to our emotions and our relationships will thrive. #TheSchoolOfLife

...Romanticism, an ideology that lulls us into the unhelpful belief that love is not something to be worked at, because it is a feeling and not a skill. We need only surrender to our emotions and our relationships will thrive. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 16, 2025

Carstensen gave her hypothesis the impenetrable name socioemotional selectivity theory. The simpler way to say it is that perspective matters. #AtulGawande

Carstensen gave her hypothesis the impenetrable name socioemotional selectivity theory. The simpler way to say it is that perspective matters. #AtulGawande — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 16, 2025

Happiness is the state you enter when you no longer want to change your state. #JamesClear

Happiness is the state you enter when you no longer want to change your state. #JamesClear — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 15, 2025

If you refuse to realize the importance of the rules you are violating and act out of self-centered convenience, then you are appropriately and inevitably damned. The carelessness you exhibit with regard to your own tradition will undo you... #JordanPeterson

If you refuse to realize the importance of the rules you are violating and act out of self-centered convenience, then you are appropriately and inevitably damned. The carelessness you exhibit with regard to your own tradition will undo you... #JordanPeterson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 15, 2025

There's nothing very professional or proprietary about 'Eat your greens,' so [nutritionists] have had to push things further. [But the technical interventions] they promote--the enzymes, the exotic berries--are very frequently not supported by convincing evidence. #BenGoldacre

There's nothing very professional or proprietary about 'Eat your greens,' so [nutritionists] have had to push things further. [But the technical interventions] they promote--the enzymes, the exotic berries--are very frequently not supported by convincing evidence. #BenGoldacre — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 15, 2025

Whatever be the actual state of the skill, dexterity, and judgment, with which labour is applied in any nation, the abundance or scantiness of its annual supply must depend [...] upon the proportion between the number of those who are annually employed. #AdamSmith

Whatever be the actual state of the skill, dexterity, and judgment, with which labour is applied in any nation, the abundance or scantiness of its annual supply must depend [...] upon the proportion between the number of those who are annually employed. #AdamSmith — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 15, 2025

...regardless of how high-tech your society might be, peace is an endless negotiation among free-acting agents whose wills cannot be engineered. Politics necessarily exist between even two individuals with free will #JennyOdell

...regardless of how high-tech your society might be, peace is an endless negotiation among free-acting agents whose wills cannot be engineered. Politics necessarily exist between even two individuals with free will #JennyOdell — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 15, 2025

The 'rise of the far-right' in particular is such a trope in journalism that the far-right is said to be rising even when it is collapsing, as it did in Britain during the last decade. #DouglasMurray

The 'rise of the far-right' in particular is such a trope in journalism that the far-right is said to be rising even when it is collapsing, as it did in Britain during the last decade. #DouglasMurray — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 15, 2025

As it is in politics, so it is in private and public companies. Fast-tracked diversity may promote the people who were nearest to their destination already. And very often these are the most privileged people of any group--including their own. #DouglasMurray

As it is in politics, so it is in private and public companies. Fast-tracked diversity may promote the people who were nearest to their destination already. And very often these are the most privileged people of any group--including their own. #DouglasMurray — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 14, 2025

If spending ten hours being trained helps you be even 1 percent more efficient at your job, then it's a good return on investment (1 percent of time saved per year is about twenty hours). #JulieZhuo

If spending ten hours being trained helps you be even 1 percent more efficient at your job, then it's a good return on investment (1 percent of time saved per year is about twenty hours). #JulieZhuo — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 14, 2025

In a world where most of the upper class was busily establishing pretensions to noble blood, the best way to bolster one's legitimacy was to marry someone who also had an august line of ancestors. #StephanieCoontz

In a world where most of the upper class was busily establishing pretensions to noble blood, the best way to bolster one's legitimacy was to marry someone who also had an august line of ancestors. #StephanieCoontz — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 14, 2025

People with advantages are loath to believe that they just happen to be people with advantages. #CWrightMills

People with advantages are loath to believe that they just happen to be people with advantages. #CWrightMills — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 14, 2025

42nd Street revealed the absurdity of human life: at the UN headquarters, diplomats discussed world peace with the utmost seriousness [...] at the same time, a sex shop tried to lure customers in to view a five-minute peep show for twenty-five cents. #QianNing

42nd Street revealed the absurdity of human life: at the UN headquarters, diplomats discussed world peace with the utmost seriousness [...] at the same time, a sex shop tried to lure customers in to view a five-minute peep show for twenty-five cents. #QianNing — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 14, 2025

Why hate someone for the color of their skin when there are much better reasons to hate them. #DenisLeary

Why hate someone for the color of their skin when there are much better reasons to hate them. #DenisLeary — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 14, 2025

We continue to seek hidden motives at larger social levels, taking inspiration from Thorstein Veblen, an economist and sociologist writing roughly a century ago. Veblen famously coined the term conspicuous consumption to explain the demand for luxury goods. #KevinSimler

We continue to seek hidden motives at larger social levels, taking inspiration from Thorstein Veblen, an economist and sociologist writing roughly a century ago. Veblen famously coined the term conspicuous consumption to explain the demand for luxury goods. #KevinSimler — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 13, 2025

To be shown love is to feel ourselves the object of concern: our presence is noted, our name is registered, our views are listened to, our failings are treated with indulgence and our needs are ministered to. And under such care, we flourish. #AlaindeBotton

To be shown love is to feel ourselves the object of concern: our presence is noted, our name is registered, our views are listened to, our failings are treated with indulgence and our needs are ministered to. And under such care, we flourish. #AlaindeBotton — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 13, 2025

Man exists. For him it is not a question of wondering whether his presence in the world is useful, whether life is worth the trouble of being lived. These questions make no sense. It is a matter of knowing whether he wants to live and under what conditions. #SimonedeBeauvoir

Man exists. For him it is not a question of wondering whether his presence in the world is useful, whether life is worth the trouble of being lived. These questions make no sense. It is a matter of knowing whether he wants to live and under what conditions. #SimonedeBeauvoir — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 13, 2025

Sensing that emoters, rather than calculators, are generally preferred as allies, our brains are keen to advertise that we are emoters. #KevinSimler

Sensing that emoters, rather than calculators, are generally preferred as allies, our brains are keen to advertise that we are emoters. #KevinSimler — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 13, 2025

What [the geriatric teams] did was to simplify medications. They saw that arthritis was controlled. They made sure toenails were trimmed and meals were square. They looked for worrisome signs of isolation and had a social worker check that the patient's home was safe #AtulGawande

What [the geriatric teams] did was to simplify medications. They saw that arthritis was controlled. They made sure toenails were trimmed and meals were square. They looked for worrisome signs of isolation and had a social worker check that the patient's home was safe #AtulGawande — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 13, 2025

Extremely depressed people have become disconnected from a sense of the future, in a way that other really distressed people have not. #JohannHari

Extremely depressed people have become disconnected from a sense of the future, in a way that other really distressed people have not. #JohannHari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 12, 2025

A person does not choose a vocation. A vocation is a calling. #DavidBrooks

A person does not choose a vocation. A vocation is a calling. #DavidBrooks — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 12, 2025

He discovered that there are two different kinds of enjoyment. One is physical or bodily pleasure. At meal times, people report the highest levels of happiness, on average. People really enjoy eating, especially in the company of others... #JonathanHaidt

He discovered that there are two different kinds of enjoyment. One is physical or bodily pleasure. At meal times, people report the highest levels of happiness, on average. People really enjoy eating, especially in the company of others... #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 12, 2025

...elites, experts, and professional classes, who had celebrated market-driven globalization, reaped the benefits, consigned working people to the discipline of foreign competition, and who seemed to identify more with global elites than with their fellow citizens #MichaelSandel

- June 11, 2025

...elites, experts, and professional classes, who had celebrated market-driven globalization, reaped the benefits, consigned working people to the discipline of foreign competition, and who seemed to identify more with global elites than with their fellow citizens #MichaelSandel — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 12, 2025

The reason I don't have a plan is because if I have a plan I'm limited to today's options. #SherylSandberg

- June 11, 2025

The reason I don't have a plan is because if I have a plan I'm limited to today's options. #SherylSandberg — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 11, 2025

If people were Superior to Animals, they'd take better care of the world #BenjaminHoff

- June 11, 2025

If people were Superior to Animals, they'd take better care of the world #BenjaminHoff — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 11, 2025

...the parallels between what the economy does to an ecological system and what the attention economy does to our attention. #JennyOdell

...the parallels between what the economy does to an ecological system and what the attention economy does to our attention. #JennyOdell — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 11, 2025

I want to be excited to wake up. I want to be excited to do my work. I want to feel like I'm playing when I'm doing my work. I'm very curious so I want to feel like a constant learner. I like having great conversations with interesting people #TimUrban

I want to be excited to wake up. I want to be excited to do my work. I want to feel like I'm playing when I'm doing my work. I'm very curious so I want to feel like a constant learner. I like having great conversations with interesting people #TimUrban — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 11, 2025

Tying happiness to the attainment of some future goal is like trying to catch up to the horizon. It's always going to be one step beyond your reach. #VishenLakhiani

Tying happiness to the attainment of some future goal is like trying to catch up to the horizon. It's always going to be one step beyond your reach. #VishenLakhiani — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 10, 2025

Alas, one cannot assert authority by accepting one's own fallibility. Simply, people need to be blinded by knowledge-we are made to follow leaders who can gather people together because the advantages of being in groups trump the disadvantages of being alone. #NassimNicholasTaleb

Alas, one cannot assert authority by accepting one's own fallibility. Simply, people need to be blinded by knowledge-we are made to follow leaders who can gather people together because the advantages of being in groups trump the disadvantages of being alone. #NassimNicholasTaleb — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 10, 2025

[Trauma helpers] don't attempt to reassure with false, saccharine sentiments. They don't say that the pain is all for the best. They don't search for silver linings. They do what wise souls do in the presence of tragedy and trauma. They practice a passive activism. #DavidBrooks

[Trauma helpers] don't attempt to reassure with false, saccharine sentiments. They don't say that the pain is all for the best. They don't search for silver linings. They do what wise souls do in the presence of tragedy and trauma. They practice a passive activism. #DavidBrooks — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 10, 2025

Always wanting more than we have, we run and run and run, like hamsters on a wheel. #JonathanHaidt

Always wanting more than we have, we run and run and run, like hamsters on a wheel. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 10, 2025

Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem. #HenryKissinger

Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem. #HenryKissinger — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 10, 2025

The real skill is not always to strive to make better choices; it's to know how to make our peace with our necessarily bad choices. #TheSchoolOfLife

The real skill is not always to strive to make better choices; it's to know how to make our peace with our necessarily bad choices. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 9, 2025

[The] riches you accumulate will just raise your expectations and leave you no better off than you were before. Yet, not realizing the futility of our efforts, we continue to strive, all the while doing things that help us win at the game of life [like hamsters]. #JonathanHaidt

[The] riches you accumulate will just raise your expectations and leave you no better off than you were before. Yet, not realizing the futility of our efforts, we continue to strive, all the while doing things that help us win at the game of life [like hamsters]. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 9, 2025

A manager's job is to... build a team that works well together, support members in reaching their career goals, and create processes to get work done smoothly and efficiently. #JulieZhuo

A manager's job is to... build a team that works well together, support members in reaching their career goals, and create processes to get work done smoothly and efficiently. #JulieZhuo — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 9, 2025

Introverts are capable of acting like extroverts for the sake of work they consider important, people they love, or anything they value highly. #SusanCain

Introverts are capable of acting like extroverts for the sake of work they consider important, people they love, or anything they value highly. #SusanCain — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 9, 2025

Companionate love grows slowly over the years as lovers apply their attachment and caregiving systems to each other, and as they begin to rely upon, care for, and trust each other. #JonathanHaidt

Companionate love grows slowly over the years as lovers apply their attachment and caregiving systems to each other, and as they begin to rely upon, care for, and trust each other. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 8, 2025

My contemplation is an excruciation only because it is also a joy. #SimonedeBeauvoir

My contemplation is an excruciation only because it is also a joy. #SimonedeBeauvoir — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 8, 2025

Judgment is the most important faculty we have. An animal, or a man, may get on very well without 'abstract attitude' but will speedily perish if deprived of judgment. Judgment must be the first faculty of higher life or mind #OliverSacks

Judgment is the most important faculty we have. An animal, or a man, may get on very well without 'abstract attitude' but will speedily perish if deprived of judgment. Judgment must be the first faculty of higher life or mind #OliverSacks — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 8, 2025

Empathy has to be forged by personal suffering. #TheSchoolOfLife

Empathy has to be forged by personal suffering. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 8, 2025

If you know what your purpose is, you can handle the setbacks. But when you don't know what your purpose is, any setback can lead to total collapse. As Seamus Heaney put it, You are neither here nor there, / A hurry through which known and strange things pass. #DavidBrooks

If you know what your purpose is, you can handle the setbacks. But when you don't know what your purpose is, any setback can lead to total collapse. As Seamus Heaney put it, You are neither here nor there, / A hurry through which known and strange things pass. #DavidBrooks — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 8, 2025

Change might not be fast and it isn't always easy. But with time and effort, almost any habit can be reshaped. #CharlesDuhigg

Change might not be fast and it isn't always easy. But with time and effort, almost any habit can be reshaped. #CharlesDuhigg — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 7, 2025

In order to generate thoughtful children, parents shouldn't insist on the rules of propriety without a commentary. They should help their children by opening their eyes to an implausible thought about human nature: the extent of the insecurity felt by [others] #TheSchoolOfLife

In order to generate thoughtful children, parents shouldn't insist on the rules of propriety without a commentary. They should help their children by opening their eyes to an implausible thought about human nature: the extent of the insecurity felt by [others] #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 7, 2025

They don't need a therapist; they need an algorithm. #BrianChristian

They don't need a therapist; they need an algorithm. #BrianChristian — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 7, 2025

In contact with certain pieces of music, our hearts--musical boxes of their own--start to follow the slower rhythms of voices and instruments; guided by the music, one's breathing grows more even and placid. #TheSchoolOfLife

In contact with certain pieces of music, our hearts--musical boxes of their own--start to follow the slower rhythms of voices and instruments; guided by the music, one's breathing grows more even and placid. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 7, 2025

Wouldn't it be better to spend our money on rescuing kids before they become addicts than on jailing them after we have failed? #JohannHari

Wouldn't it be better to spend our money on rescuing kids before they become addicts than on jailing them after we have failed? #JohannHari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 6, 2025

In nationalist thought there are facts which are both true and untrue, known and unknown. A known fact may be so unbearable that it is habitually pushed aside and not allowed to enter into logical processes... #GeorgeOrwell

In nationalist thought there are facts which are both true and untrue, known and unknown. A known fact may be so unbearable that it is habitually pushed aside and not allowed to enter into logical processes... #GeorgeOrwell — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 6, 2025

The work of good science is to try and peer beyond the convenient lines we draw over nature. To peer beyond intuition where something wilder lives. To know that in every organism at which you gaze, there is complexity you will never comprehend. #LuluMiller

The work of good science is to try and peer beyond the convenient lines we draw over nature. To peer beyond intuition where something wilder lives. To know that in every organism at which you gaze, there is complexity you will never comprehend. #LuluMiller — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 6, 2025

Whatever the case, those around us tend to react [to originality] with surprise and, at the same time, shock. People instinctively dislike those things they can't understand. #HarukiMurakami

Whatever the case, those around us tend to react [to originality] with surprise and, at the same time, shock. People instinctively dislike those things they can't understand. #HarukiMurakami — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 6, 2025

...as this vision of sexual liberation dominated the feminist platform, not having sex--or only wanting vanilla sex or only having sex within the confines of monogamous, heterosexual relationships--becomes a sign that someone is allied with backward, conservative... #AngelaChen

...as this vision of sexual liberation dominated the feminist platform, not having sex--or only wanting vanilla sex or only having sex within the confines of monogamous, heterosexual relationships--becomes a sign that someone is allied with backward, conservative... #AngelaChen — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 5, 2025

Other animals can make sounds, and sounds can indicate pleasure and pain. But language, a distinctly human capacity, isn織t just for registering pleasure and pain. It織s about declaring what is just and what is unjust, and distinguishing right from wrong. #MichaelSandel

Other animals can make sounds, and sounds can indicate pleasure and pain. But language, a distinctly human capacity, isn織t just for registering pleasure and pain. It織s about declaring what is just and what is unjust, and distinguishing right from wrong. #MichaelSandel — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 5, 2025

What is troubling us is the tendency to believe that the mind is like a little man within. #LudwigWittgenstein

What is troubling us is the tendency to believe that the mind is like a little man within. #LudwigWittgenstein — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 5, 2025

We do not become satisfied by leading a peaceful and prosperous existence. Rather, we become satisfied when reality matches our expectations. The bad news is that as conditions improve, expectations balloon. #YuvalNoahHarari

We do not become satisfied by leading a peaceful and prosperous existence. Rather, we become satisfied when reality matches our expectations. The bad news is that as conditions improve, expectations balloon. #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 5, 2025

Dealing with nation states [fake information] is a lot harder because they're more kind of ideological or sovereignty-motivated so there I think you just need to be very vigilant #MarkZuckerberg

Dealing with nation states [fake information] is a lot harder because they're more kind of ideological or sovereignty-motivated so there I think you just need to be very vigilant #MarkZuckerberg — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 5, 2025

An atomic habit is a little habit that is part of a larger system. Just as atoms are the building blocks of molecules, atomic habits are the building blocks of remarkable results. #JamesClear

An atomic habit is a little habit that is part of a larger system. Just as atoms are the building blocks of molecules, atomic habits are the building blocks of remarkable results. #JamesClear — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 4, 2025

The problem at present is not the disparity, but the certainty--the spurious certainty with which an unbelievably unclear issue is presented as though it was the clearest and best understood thing imaginable. #DouglasMurray

The problem at present is not the disparity, but the certainty--the spurious certainty with which an unbelievably unclear issue is presented as though it was the clearest and best understood thing imaginable. #DouglasMurray — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 4, 2025

Don't be too ambitious. Do the most important thing you can think of doing every year and then your career will take care of itself. #HenryKissinger

Don't be too ambitious. Do the most important thing you can think of doing every year and then your career will take care of itself. #HenryKissinger — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 4, 2025

The world beyond will always resist our efforts to bend it to our will, but in the garden, with some effort, regular watering and some luck with the sun, we can for brief weeks be the midwives to something as visually seductive as it is cheering. #TheSchoolOfLife

The world beyond will always resist our efforts to bend it to our will, but in the garden, with some effort, regular watering and some luck with the sun, we can for brief weeks be the midwives to something as visually seductive as it is cheering. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 4, 2025

[Socrates] recommended systematically asking ourselves [like]: what are my priorities? What do I really fear? What do I truly want? Investigating and interpreting our thoughts and feelings was, and remains, the essence of what it means to be a philosopher. #TheSchoolOfLife

[Socrates] recommended systematically asking ourselves [like]: what are my priorities? What do I really fear? What do I truly want? Investigating and interpreting our thoughts and feelings was, and remains, the essence of what it means to be a philosopher. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 3, 2025

Whatever our political leanings, we all feel nervous about profit taking any role in the caring professions, but that feeling has nowhere to go. #BenGoldacre

Whatever our political leanings, we all feel nervous about profit taking any role in the caring professions, but that feeling has nowhere to go. #BenGoldacre — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 3, 2025

Love is the strongest force the world possesses and yet it is the humblest imaginable. #MahatmaGandhi

Love is the strongest force the world possesses and yet it is the humblest imaginable. #MahatmaGandhi — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 3, 2025

A succession of philosophers and historians spent their time studiously attempting to say nothing as successfully as possible. #DouglasMurray

A succession of philosophers and historians spent their time studiously attempting to say nothing as successfully as possible. #DouglasMurray — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 3, 2025

A dominant impulse on encountering beauty is to wish to hold on to it, to possess it and give it weight in one's life. There is an urge to say, 'I was here, I saw this and it mattered to me.' #AlaindeBotton

A dominant impulse on encountering beauty is to wish to hold on to it, to possess it and give it weight in one's life. There is an urge to say, 'I was here, I saw this and it mattered to me.' #AlaindeBotton — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 3, 2025

If we accept that sex is merely a service that can be freely bought and sold, then we have no arguments left to make against the incels who want to 'redistribute' it or the army officials who want to offer their troops 'convenient arrangements'. #LouisePerry

If we accept that sex is merely a service that can be freely bought and sold, then we have no arguments left to make against the incels who want to 'redistribute' it or the army officials who want to offer their troops 'convenient arrangements'. #LouisePerry — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 2, 2025

The beginning of thought is in disagreement - not only with others but also with ourselves. #EricHoffer

The beginning of thought is in disagreement - not only with others but also with ourselves. #EricHoffer — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 2, 2025

Each year, about 350,000 Americans fall and break a hip. Of those, 40 percent end up in a nursing home, and 20 percent are never able to walk again. #AtulGawande

Each year, about 350,000 Americans fall and break a hip. Of those, 40 percent end up in a nursing home, and 20 percent are never able to walk again. #AtulGawande — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 2, 2025

It grabs the wrist of the other hand and tries to stop it from executing the person's conscious plans. Sometimes, the alien hand actually reaches for the person's own neck and tries to strangle him. #JonathanHaidt

It grabs the wrist of the other hand and tries to stop it from executing the person's conscious plans. Sometimes, the alien hand actually reaches for the person's own neck and tries to strangle him. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 1, 2025

No one ever really has control. Physics and biology and accident ultimately have their way in our lives. But the point is that we are not helpless either. Courage is the strength to recognize both realities. We have room to act, to shape our stories... #AtulGawande

No one ever really has control. Physics and biology and accident ultimately have their way in our lives. But the point is that we are not helpless either. Courage is the strength to recognize both realities. We have room to act, to shape our stories... #AtulGawande — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 1, 2025

Jesus preached only love, and the Inquisition was based on a horrific distortion of his teachings. We can sympathise with this claim, but it would be a mistake to let Christianity off the hook so easily. #YuvalNoahHarari