English Quotes

[On the expressive value of gift giving] From our intimates at least, we'd rather received a gift that speaks to the wild self, the passionate self, the romantic self. #MichaelSandel — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 1, 2025

There is no one more courageous than the person who speaks with the courage of his convictions. #SusanCain

There is no one more courageous than the person who speaks with the courage of his convictions. #SusanCain — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 1, 2025

There is a problem that begins in our universities, and it comes down to Social Justice. The most immediate aspect of the problem is that Social Justice scholarship gets passed down to students, who then go out into the world. #HelenPluckrose

There is a problem that begins in our universities, and it comes down to Social Justice. The most immediate aspect of the problem is that Social Justice scholarship gets passed down to students, who then go out into the world. #HelenPluckrose — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 31, 2025

Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. #EudoraWelty

Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. #EudoraWelty — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 31, 2025

To the young and the not too old, I say look at the horizon, find that rainbow [of adventure], go ride it. Not all will be rich; quite a few will find a vein of gold; but all who pursue that rainbow will have a joyous and exhilarating ride and some profit. #LeeKuanYew

To the young and the not too old, I say look at the horizon, find that rainbow [of adventure], go ride it. Not all will be rich; quite a few will find a vein of gold; but all who pursue that rainbow will have a joyous and exhilarating ride and some profit. #LeeKuanYew — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 31, 2025

[On China] the wealthiest country in the world but one that was indifferent to foreign trade and technological innovation; a culture of cosmopolitanism overseen by a political elite oblivious to the onset of the Western age of exploration #HenryKissinger

[On China] the wealthiest country in the world but one that was indifferent to foreign trade and technological innovation; a culture of cosmopolitanism overseen by a political elite oblivious to the onset of the Western age of exploration #HenryKissinger — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 31, 2025

You should ask certain questions: What is the purpose of my life? What do I want from life? What are the things that I truly value, that are not done just to please or impress the people around me? #DavidBrooks

You should ask certain questions: What is the purpose of my life? What do I want from life? What are the things that I truly value, that are not done just to please or impress the people around me? #DavidBrooks — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 31, 2025

But no matter how strong a will a person has, no matter how much he may hate to lose, if it's an activity he doesn't really care for, he won't keep it up for long. Even if he did, it wouldn't be good for him. #HarukiMurakami

But no matter how strong a will a person has, no matter how much he may hate to lose, if it's an activity he doesn't really care for, he won't keep it up for long. Even if he did, it wouldn't be good for him. #HarukiMurakami — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 31, 2025

The richest soils were always most subject to this change of masters #Thucydides

The richest soils were always most subject to this change of masters #Thucydides — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 30, 2025

Man's first feeling was that of his own existence, and his first care that of self-preservation. #JeanJacquesRousseau

Man's first feeling was that of his own existence, and his first care that of self-preservation. #JeanJacquesRousseau — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 30, 2025

Any real estate that you plant on the ground, belongs to the owner of the ground. So, relationships between the countries turn sour, the inter-country investments can be at risk. #LeeKuanYew

Any real estate that you plant on the ground, belongs to the owner of the ground. So, relationships between the countries turn sour, the inter-country investments can be at risk. #LeeKuanYew — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 30, 2025

...if the purpose of our life is to be famous, if we don't especially like to listen, if we have trouble being calm, if we have been very badly scrambled by our own parents, then we might consider whether--in fairness to everyone involved--this is really for us. #TheSchoolOfLife

...if the purpose of our life is to be famous, if we don't especially like to listen, if we have trouble being calm, if we have been very badly scrambled by our own parents, then we might consider whether--in fairness to everyone involved--this is really for us. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 30, 2025

Don't mistake your desire to talk for their readiness to listen. #WilliamMartin

Don't mistake your desire to talk for their readiness to listen. #WilliamMartin — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 30, 2025

To wonder too openly, or intensely, about the meaning of life sounds like a peculiar, ill-fated and unintentionally comedic pastime. #TheSchoolOfLife

To wonder too openly, or intensely, about the meaning of life sounds like a peculiar, ill-fated and unintentionally comedic pastime. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 30, 2025

The biggest of these Brules is the idea that you need to map out your life to move you toward some ridiculous idea called a career [...] when most people think about setting goals and their visions for the future, their dominant model focuses on career and money. #VishenLakhiani

The biggest of these Brules is the idea that you need to map out your life to move you toward some ridiculous idea called a career [...] when most people think about setting goals and their visions for the future, their dominant model focuses on career and money. #VishenLakhiani — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 29, 2025

[Robin] has often said his main goal in academic life is to get his ideas out there in the name of intellectual progress. But then he began to realize that whenever he spotted his ideas out there without proper attribution, he had mixed feelings. #KevinSimler

[Robin] has often said his main goal in academic life is to get his ideas out there in the name of intellectual progress. But then he began to realize that whenever he spotted his ideas out there without proper attribution, he had mixed feelings. #KevinSimler — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 29, 2025

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac. #HenryKissinger

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac. #HenryKissinger — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 29, 2025

These words may provide the best definition of originality available. Fresh, energetic, and unmistakably your own. #HarukiMurakami

These words may provide the best definition of originality available. Fresh, energetic, and unmistakably your own. #HarukiMurakami — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 29, 2025

Only you will know that you are a liar; only you will know you deal unethically with people who trust you [...] Whose knowledge or judgment do you imagine is more important? It is precisely your own ego from which there is no escape. #NathanielBranden

Only you will know that you are a liar; only you will know you deal unethically with people who trust you [...] Whose knowledge or judgment do you imagine is more important? It is precisely your own ego from which there is no escape. #NathanielBranden — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 29, 2025

High male earnings have also become less important to women. A 2001 poll in the United States found that 80 percent of women in their [20s] believed that having a husband who can talk about his feelings was more important than having one who makes a good living. #StephanieCoontz

High male earnings have also become less important to women. A 2001 poll in the United States found that 80 percent of women in their [20s] believed that having a husband who can talk about his feelings was more important than having one who makes a good living. #StephanieCoontz — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 29, 2025

All cultures are not equal. Or at least they are not equal in preparing people to be productive in an advanced economy. [...] Anthropologists generally agree that cultures and subcultures instill different goals, skills, and virtues in their members #JonathanHaidt

All cultures are not equal. Or at least they are not equal in preparing people to be productive in an advanced economy. [...] Anthropologists generally agree that cultures and subcultures instill different goals, skills, and virtues in their members #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 28, 2025

Religion means to know God and to love Him. #ACPrabhupada

Religion means to know God and to love Him. #ACPrabhupada — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 28, 2025

Unalert yet sometimes suffused through and through by an inward light, is characteristic of the primitive and of the child (and also of those moments of religious and artistic inspiration that occur ever less and less often as a Culture grows older) right. #OswaldSpengler

Unalert yet sometimes suffused through and through by an inward light, is characteristic of the primitive and of the child (and also of those moments of religious and artistic inspiration that occur ever less and less often as a Culture grows older) right. #OswaldSpengler — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 28, 2025

We [men] die younger than women because [...] we don't go to the doctor. We don't take ourselves too seriously. We don't want to be thought self-indulgent. The mark of a real man is being able to tolerate a chest infection for three months before laying off the smokes #RobertWebb

We [men] die younger than women because [...] we don't go to the doctor. We don't take ourselves too seriously. We don't want to be thought self-indulgent. The mark of a real man is being able to tolerate a chest infection for three months before laying off the smokes #RobertWebb — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 28, 2025

When you are young and healthy, you believe you will live forever. You do not worry about losing any of your capabilities. People tell you the world is your oyster, ... and so on. And you are willing to delay gratification--to invest years ... for a brighter future #AtulGawande

When you are young and healthy, you believe you will live forever. You do not worry about losing any of your capabilities. People tell you the world is your oyster, ... and so on. And you are willing to delay gratification--to invest years ... for a brighter future #AtulGawande — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 28, 2025

I've always done whatever I felt like doing in life. People may try to stop me, and convince me I'm wrong, but I won't change. #HarukiMurakami

I've always done whatever I felt like doing in life. People may try to stop me, and convince me I'm wrong, but I won't change. #HarukiMurakami — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 28, 2025

A clinging to the past in the face of new and changing circumstances is itself a product of insecurity, a lack of self-trust. Rigidity is what animals sometimes manifest when they are frightened: they freeze. #NathanielBranden

A clinging to the past in the face of new and changing circumstances is itself a product of insecurity, a lack of self-trust. Rigidity is what animals sometimes manifest when they are frightened: they freeze. #NathanielBranden — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 27, 2025

...marriage, one of modern society's most grief-stricken arrangements, which has been rendered unnecessarily hellish by the astonishing secular supposition that it should be entered into principally for the sake of happiness. #AlaindeBotton

...marriage, one of modern society's most grief-stricken arrangements, which has been rendered unnecessarily hellish by the astonishing secular supposition that it should be entered into principally for the sake of happiness. #AlaindeBotton — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 27, 2025

There is little reason to travel in an automotive cocoon when, for a fare of only a few francs, an efficient, stately tramway will provide transport from point A to point B at a level of comfort an emperor might have envied. #AlaindeBotton

There is little reason to travel in an automotive cocoon when, for a fare of only a few francs, an efficient, stately tramway will provide transport from point A to point B at a level of comfort an emperor might have envied. #AlaindeBotton — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 27, 2025

You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over. #RichardBranson

You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over. #RichardBranson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 27, 2025

Surveys suggest that about one third of all women worldwide face beatings in the home. Women aged fifteen through forty-four are more likely to be maimed or die from male violence than from cancer, malaria, traffic accidents, and war combined. #NicholasDKristof

Surveys suggest that about one third of all women worldwide face beatings in the home. Women aged fifteen through forty-four are more likely to be maimed or die from male violence than from cancer, malaria, traffic accidents, and war combined. #NicholasDKristof — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 27, 2025

We may be interested in possessions and salaries, but we are not on that basis 'materialistic'. We are simply living in a world where the possession of certain material goods has become the only conduit to the emotional rewards that we crave deep down. #TheSchoolOfLife

We may be interested in possessions and salaries, but we are not on that basis 'materialistic'. We are simply living in a world where the possession of certain material goods has become the only conduit to the emotional rewards that we crave deep down. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 26, 2025

I also have core positions that I have held for years and hope to hold for many more years. #JoshuaBrown

I also have core positions that I have held for years and hope to hold for many more years. #JoshuaBrown — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 26, 2025

Like most people in the King-era civil rights movement, they were Gandhians because nonviolent passive resistance was the best way to highlight white racism as an immorality. Their rejection of violence, even as a weapon against racial oppression #ShelbySteele

Like most people in the King-era civil rights movement, they were Gandhians because nonviolent passive resistance was the best way to highlight white racism as an immorality. Their rejection of violence, even as a weapon against racial oppression #ShelbySteele — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 26, 2025

There's zero correlation between being the best talker and having the best ideas. #SusanCain

There's zero correlation between being the best talker and having the best ideas. #SusanCain — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 26, 2025

In the realm of emotion, [people with character] are enmeshed in a web of unconditional loves. In the realm of action, they have a permanent commitment to tasks that cannot be completed in a single lifetime. #DavidBrooks

In the realm of emotion, [people with character] are enmeshed in a web of unconditional loves. In the realm of action, they have a permanent commitment to tasks that cannot be completed in a single lifetime. #DavidBrooks — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 26, 2025

Love in many ways is more crucial than ever to the determination of self-worth. Given that so much in our culture points a finger at our psyches, we are deemed to be insufficiently competent when a love story fails... love failures threaten the foundations of the self. #EvaIllouz

Love in many ways is more crucial than ever to the determination of self-worth. Given that so much in our culture points a finger at our psyches, we are deemed to be insufficiently competent when a love story fails... love failures threaten the foundations of the self. #EvaIllouz — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 25, 2025

The challenge today is to prod the world to face up to women locked in brothels and teenage girls with fistulas curled up on the floor of isolated huts. We hope to see a broad movement emerge to battle gender inequality around the world and to push for education #NicholasDKristof

The challenge today is to prod the world to face up to women locked in brothels and teenage girls with fistulas curled up on the floor of isolated huts. We hope to see a broad movement emerge to battle gender inequality around the world and to push for education #NicholasDKristof — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 25, 2025

In democracies, by contrast, the propaganda of the press and public opinion relentlessly promised servants that they, too, could reach the pinnacles of society and make their fortune as industrialists, judges, scientists or even presidents. #AlaindeBotton

In democracies, by contrast, the propaganda of the press and public opinion relentlessly promised servants that they, too, could reach the pinnacles of society and make their fortune as industrialists, judges, scientists or even presidents. #AlaindeBotton — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 25, 2025

Finland is a famously introverted nation. Finnish joke: How can you tell if a Finn likes you? He's staring at your shoes instead of his own. #SusanCain

Finland is a famously introverted nation. Finnish joke: How can you tell if a Finn likes you? He's staring at your shoes instead of his own. #SusanCain — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 25, 2025

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way that I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. #OliverBurkeman

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way that I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. #OliverBurkeman — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 25, 2025

The religious police have a deal with the royal family in Saudi Arabia: the latter gets to deal with the fortunes of the country while the former is almost assured free rein over all religious matters #LeeKuanYew

The religious police have a deal with the royal family in Saudi Arabia: the latter gets to deal with the fortunes of the country while the former is almost assured free rein over all religious matters #LeeKuanYew — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 25, 2025

Every blessing ignored becomes a curse. #PauloCoelho

Every blessing ignored becomes a curse. #PauloCoelho — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 24, 2025

To perceive the world through other senses is to find splendor in familiarity and the sacred in the mundane. #EdYong

To perceive the world through other senses is to find splendor in familiarity and the sacred in the mundane. #EdYong — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 24, 2025

Work can constitute a victory of sorts over the forces of entropy and extinction. #TheSchoolOfLife

Work can constitute a victory of sorts over the forces of entropy and extinction. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 24, 2025

We discover the primary love language of our spouse, and we choose to speak it whether or not it is natural for us. We are not claiming to have warm, excited feelings. We are simply choosing to do it for his or her benefit. #GaryChapman

We discover the primary love language of our spouse, and we choose to speak it whether or not it is natural for us. We are not claiming to have warm, excited feelings. We are simply choosing to do it for his or her benefit. #GaryChapman — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 24, 2025

A continent which imports the world's peoples will also import the world's problems. #DouglasMurray

A continent which imports the world's peoples will also import the world's problems. #DouglasMurray — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 24, 2025

A person does not choose a vocation. A vocation is a calling. People generally feel they have no choice in the matter. Their life would be unrecognizable unless they pursued this line of activity. #DavidBrooks

A person does not choose a vocation. A vocation is a calling. People generally feel they have no choice in the matter. Their life would be unrecognizable unless they pursued this line of activity. #DavidBrooks — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 24, 2025

Eating a healthy breakfast makes it less likely you will snack later in the day, according to studies. #CharlesDuhigg

Eating a healthy breakfast makes it less likely you will snack later in the day, according to studies. #CharlesDuhigg — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 23, 2025

...liberalism--which has done so much to bring about freedom and equal opportunity--is not sufficient as a governing philosophy. It tends to overreach, change too many things too quickly, and reduce the stock of moral capital inadvertently. #JonathanHaidt

...liberalism--which has done so much to bring about freedom and equal opportunity--is not sufficient as a governing philosophy. It tends to overreach, change too many things too quickly, and reduce the stock of moral capital inadvertently. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 23, 2025

The child has to go through every stage of juvenility in order one day to settle into an authentically mature position. #TheSchoolOfLife

The child has to go through every stage of juvenility in order one day to settle into an authentically mature position. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 23, 2025

We can consider our acceptance of ideas and trends before adding them to our belief systems and we can check what we desire or what we allow to consume our energy. #RichardEyre

We can consider our acceptance of ideas and trends before adding them to our belief systems and we can check what we desire or what we allow to consume our energy. #RichardEyre — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 23, 2025

Insomnia is his mind's revenge for all the tricky thoughts he has carefully avoided during the daylight hours. #AlaindeBotton

Insomnia is his mind's revenge for all the tricky thoughts he has carefully avoided during the daylight hours. #AlaindeBotton — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 23, 2025

Some people are old at 18 and some are young at 90. Time is a concept that humans created. #YokoOno

Some people are old at 18 and some are young at 90. Time is a concept that humans created. #YokoOno — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 22, 2025

Studies find that as people grow older they interact with fewer people and concentrate more on spending time with family and established friends. They focus on being rather than doing and on the present more than the future. #AtulGawande

Studies find that as people grow older they interact with fewer people and concentrate more on spending time with family and established friends. They focus on being rather than doing and on the present more than the future. #AtulGawande — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 22, 2025

What is originality, after all, but the shape that results from the natural impulse to communicate to others that feeling of freedom, that unconstrained joy? #HarukiMurakami

What is originality, after all, but the shape that results from the natural impulse to communicate to others that feeling of freedom, that unconstrained joy? #HarukiMurakami — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 22, 2025

If we believe firmly in certain values [...] then we should not be afraid to stand up for them; it would be feckless to defer to slavery, torture, foot-binding, honor killings, or genital cutting just because we believe in respecting other faiths or cultures. #NicholasDKristof

If we believe firmly in certain values [...] then we should not be afraid to stand up for them; it would be feckless to defer to slavery, torture, foot-binding, honor killings, or genital cutting just because we believe in respecting other faiths or cultures. #NicholasDKristof — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 22, 2025

Love rests on two pillars: surrender and autonomy. Our need for togetherness exists alongside our need for separateness. #EstherPerel

Love rests on two pillars: surrender and autonomy. Our need for togetherness exists alongside our need for separateness. #EstherPerel — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 22, 2025

Remember that everyone has opinions and they are often bad. Opinions are easy to produce; everyone has plenty of them and most people are eager to share them--even to fight for them. Unfortunately many are worthless or even harmful, including a lot of your own. #RayDalio

Remember that everyone has opinions and they are often bad. Opinions are easy to produce; everyone has plenty of them and most people are eager to share them--even to fight for them. Unfortunately many are worthless or even harmful, including a lot of your own. #RayDalio — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 21, 2025

Scientists have discovered, it's true, that employing positive illusions will help you achieve your goals. But I have slowly come to believe that far better things await outside of the tunnel vision of your goals. #LuluMiller

Scientists have discovered, it's true, that employing positive illusions will help you achieve your goals. But I have slowly come to believe that far better things await outside of the tunnel vision of your goals. #LuluMiller — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 21, 2025

Society had become divided into two ideologically hostile camps, and each side viewed the other with suspicion. #Thucydides

Society had become divided into two ideologically hostile camps, and each side viewed the other with suspicion. #Thucydides — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 21, 2025

When evaluating global happiness, it is wrong to count the happiness only of the upper classes, of Europeans or of men. Perhaps it is also wrong to consider only the happiness of humans. #YuvalNoahHarari

When evaluating global happiness, it is wrong to count the happiness only of the upper classes, of Europeans or of men. Perhaps it is also wrong to consider only the happiness of humans. #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 21, 2025

This power to shame, silence, and muscle concessions from the larger society on the basis of past victimization became the new black power. Then, as this power supported the next generation of civil rights leaders, it evolved into what we call today the race card. #ShelbySteele

This power to shame, silence, and muscle concessions from the larger society on the basis of past victimization became the new black power. Then, as this power supported the next generation of civil rights leaders, it evolved into what we call today the race card. #ShelbySteele — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 21, 2025

The emergence of automobiles in the past and that of computers today have twice changed the appearance of America and the life of its people. #QianNing

The emergence of automobiles in the past and that of computers today have twice changed the appearance of America and the life of its people. #QianNing — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 21, 2025

In every personality there is one dominant and predominant activity: it is here that his thought must be looked for, in a form that is more often than not implicit and at times even in contradiction with what is professly expressed. #AntonioGramsci

In every personality there is one dominant and predominant activity: it is here that his thought must be looked for, in a form that is more often than not implicit and at times even in contradiction with what is professly expressed. #AntonioGramsci — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 20, 2025

With a big enough why you can overcome any how. If your motivation and desire are great enough (that is, why you are acting), you'll take action even when it is quite difficult. #JamesClear

With a big enough why you can overcome any how. If your motivation and desire are great enough (that is, why you are acting), you'll take action even when it is quite difficult. #JamesClear — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 20, 2025

Many of the things that don't kill you can damage you for life. #JonathanHaidt

Many of the things that don't kill you can damage you for life. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 20, 2025

Stop walking through the world looking for confirmation that you don't belong. You will always find it because you've made that your mission. Stop scouring people's faces for evidence that you're not enough. You will always find it because you've made that your goal. #BreneBrown

Stop walking through the world looking for confirmation that you don't belong. You will always find it because you've made that your mission. Stop scouring people's faces for evidence that you're not enough. You will always find it because you've made that your goal. #BreneBrown — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 20, 2025

In the short term, distractions can keep us from doing the things we want to do. In the longer term, however, they can accumulate and keep us from living the lives we want to live, or, even worse, undermine our capacities for reflection and self-regulation... #JamesWilliam

In the short term, distractions can keep us from doing the things we want to do. In the longer term, however, they can accumulate and keep us from living the lives we want to live, or, even worse, undermine our capacities for reflection and self-regulation... #JamesWilliam — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 20, 2025

The art we really need is that which follows the opposite arc--celebrating people who downshifted, adjusted, but still endured and prospered internally. #TheSchoolOfLife

The art we really need is that which follows the opposite arc--celebrating people who downshifted, adjusted, but still endured and prospered internally. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 20, 2025

People tend to see their own lives through rose-colored glasses: they think they're less likely than the average person to become the victim [...] But change the question from the people's lives to their society, and they transform from Pollyanna to Eeyore. #StevenPinker

People tend to see their own lives through rose-colored glasses: they think they're less likely than the average person to become the victim [...] But change the question from the people's lives to their society, and they transform from Pollyanna to Eeyore. #StevenPinker — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 19, 2025

Agency is not automatic. It has to be given birth to, with pushing and effort. #DavidBrooks

Agency is not automatic. It has to be given birth to, with pushing and effort. #DavidBrooks — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 19, 2025

...each person has a characteristic level of happiness, but it now looks as though it's not so much a set point as a potential range or probability distribution. #JonathanHaidt

...each person has a characteristic level of happiness, but it now looks as though it's not so much a set point as a potential range or probability distribution. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 19, 2025

You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it's better to listen to what it has to say. #PauloCoelho

You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it's better to listen to what it has to say. #PauloCoelho — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 19, 2025

...to modify a habit, you must decide to change it. You must consciously accept the hard work of identifying the cues and rewards that drive the habits' routines, and find alternatives. You must know you have control and be self-conscious enough to use it... #CharlesDuhigg

...to modify a habit, you must decide to change it. You must consciously accept the hard work of identifying the cues and rewards that drive the habits' routines, and find alternatives. You must know you have control and be self-conscious enough to use it... #CharlesDuhigg — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 19, 2025

Human beings need physical and mental challenges and stressors or we deteriorate. #JonathanHaidt

Human beings need physical and mental challenges and stressors or we deteriorate. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 18, 2025

The seeker after truth should be humbler than the dust. The world crushes the dust under its feet, but the seeker after truth should so humble himself that even the dust could crush him. Only then, and not till then, will he have a glimpse of truth. #MahatmaGandhi

The seeker after truth should be humbler than the dust. The world crushes the dust under its feet, but the seeker after truth should so humble himself that even the dust could crush him. Only then, and not till then, will he have a glimpse of truth. #MahatmaGandhi — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 18, 2025

I have written my work, not as an essay which is to win the applause of the moment, but as a possession for all time. #Thucydides

I have written my work, not as an essay which is to win the applause of the moment, but as a possession for all time. #Thucydides — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 18, 2025

Living totally does not mean just having a good time. It means experiencing anything that comes your way fully and intensely. The very process of life is the dissolution of karma. If you live every moment of your life totally, you dissolve an enormous volume of karma. #Sadhguru

Living totally does not mean just having a good time. It means experiencing anything that comes your way fully and intensely. The very process of life is the dissolution of karma. If you live every moment of your life totally, you dissolve an enormous volume of karma. #Sadhguru — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 18, 2025

Some 57 percent of Americans now do not read a single book in a typical year. #JohannHari

Some 57 percent of Americans now do not read a single book in a typical year. #JohannHari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 18, 2025

From elementary school up to college I was never interested in things I was forced to study. I told myself it was something that had to be done, I only began to enjoy studying after I got through the educational system and became a so-called member of society. #HarukiMurakami

From elementary school up to college I was never interested in things I was forced to study. I told myself it was something that had to be done, I only began to enjoy studying after I got through the educational system and became a so-called member of society. #HarukiMurakami — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 17, 2025

Obviously these feelings [of fear and anger] are warranted, but their expression on social media so often feels like firecrackers setting off other firecrackers in a very small room that soon gets filled with smoke. #JennyOdell

Obviously these feelings [of fear and anger] are warranted, but their expression on social media so often feels like firecrackers setting off other firecrackers in a very small room that soon gets filled with smoke. #JennyOdell — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 17, 2025

We might imagine that the way to create a kinder world would be to lecture people on manners and ethics--but what we really need is a world in which everyone is shown sufficient kindness so that stamping on others no longer holds such allure. #TheSchoolOfLife

We might imagine that the way to create a kinder world would be to lecture people on manners and ethics--but what we really need is a world in which everyone is shown sufficient kindness so that stamping on others no longer holds such allure. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 17, 2025

A brain is the record of a life. The networks of neural connections are the physical manifestation of your habits, personality, and predilections. You are the spiritual entity that emerges out of the material networks in your head. #DavidBrooks

A brain is the record of a life. The networks of neural connections are the physical manifestation of your habits, personality, and predilections. You are the spiritual entity that emerges out of the material networks in your head. #DavidBrooks — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 17, 2025

...each of us is a biography, a story. Each of us is a singular narrative, which is constructed, continually, unconsciously, by, through, and in us--through our perceptions, our feelings, our thoughts, our actions; and, not least, our discourse, our spoken narrations #OliverSacks

...each of us is a biography, a story. Each of us is a singular narrative, which is constructed, continually, unconsciously, by, through, and in us--through our perceptions, our feelings, our thoughts, our actions; and, not least, our discourse, our spoken narrations #OliverSacks — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 17, 2025

Psychologists usually offer three explanations for the failure of group brainstorming. [...] the third is evaluation apprehension, meaning the fear of looking stupid in front of one's peers. #SusanCain

Psychologists usually offer three explanations for the failure of group brainstorming. [...] the third is evaluation apprehension, meaning the fear of looking stupid in front of one's peers. #SusanCain — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 17, 2025

People readily replace racial classification schemes with alternative coalitional classification schemes, but they don't do the same for classification by gender, as predicted by evolutionary accounts of human coalitional psychology. #JoshuaGreene

People readily replace racial classification schemes with alternative coalitional classification schemes, but they don't do the same for classification by gender, as predicted by evolutionary accounts of human coalitional psychology. #JoshuaGreene — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 16, 2025

If Tehran insists on combining the Persian imperial tradition with contemporary Islamic fervor, then a collision with America--and, indeed, with its negotiating partners of the Six--is unavoidable #HenryKissinger

If Tehran insists on combining the Persian imperial tradition with contemporary Islamic fervor, then a collision with America--and, indeed, with its negotiating partners of the Six--is unavoidable #HenryKissinger — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 16, 2025

...every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud adopts, as a last resource, pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and glad to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail #Schopenhauer

...every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud adopts, as a last resource, pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and glad to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail #Schopenhauer — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 16, 2025

The desire for high status is never stronger than in situations where ordinary life fails to answer a median need for dignity and comfort. #AlaindeBotton

The desire for high status is never stronger than in situations where ordinary life fails to answer a median need for dignity and comfort. #AlaindeBotton — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 16, 2025

We want our friends to be nice, but appreciate our lovers as a touch dangerous. #TheSchoolOfLife

We want our friends to be nice, but appreciate our lovers as a touch dangerous. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 16, 2025

There is, in the very feeling of those passions, something harsh, jarring [...] and is altogether destructive of that composure and tranquillity of mind which is so necessary to happiness, and which is best promoted by the contrary passions of gratitude and love. #AdamSmith

There is, in the very feeling of those passions, something harsh, jarring [...] and is altogether destructive of that composure and tranquillity of mind which is so necessary to happiness, and which is best promoted by the contrary passions of gratitude and love. #AdamSmith — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 15, 2025

Some people might worry that offering too much soothing to a child risks turning them into malingering attention-seekers. We might reply that attention-seekers are never people who have had too much attention; they are people the world tragically forgot existed. #TheSchoolOfLife

Some people might worry that offering too much soothing to a child risks turning them into malingering attention-seekers. We might reply that attention-seekers are never people who have had too much attention; they are people the world tragically forgot existed. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 15, 2025

People would be happier, and in the long run and wealthier, if they bought basic functional appliances, automobiles, and wristwatches, and invested the money they saved for future consumption #JonathanHaidt

People would be happier, and in the long run and wealthier, if they bought basic functional appliances, automobiles, and wristwatches, and invested the money they saved for future consumption #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 15, 2025

Psychologists have devoted a great deal of effort to figuring out who benefits from trauma and who is crushed. The answer compounds the already great unfairness of life: Optimists are more likely to benefit than pessimists. #JonathanHaidt

Psychologists have devoted a great deal of effort to figuring out who benefits from trauma and who is crushed. The answer compounds the already great unfairness of life: Optimists are more likely to benefit than pessimists. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 15, 2025

The mere impulse of appetite is slavery, while obedience to a law which we prescribe to ourselves is liberty. #JeanJacquesRousseau

The mere impulse of appetite is slavery, while obedience to a law which we prescribe to ourselves is liberty. #JeanJacquesRousseau — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 15, 2025

Remember that you are a Black Swan. #NassimNicholasTaleb

Remember that you are a Black Swan. #NassimNicholasTaleb — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 15, 2025

You need a strong economy to project power--to fund the building of warships, aircraft, and military bases. #LeeKuanYew

You need a strong economy to project power--to fund the building of warships, aircraft, and military bases. #LeeKuanYew — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 14, 2025

However well off a man may be in his private life, he will still be involved in the general ruin if his country is destroyed; whereas, so long as the state itself is secure, individuals have a much greater chance of recovering from their private misfortunes. #Thucydides

However well off a man may be in his private life, he will still be involved in the general ruin if his country is destroyed; whereas, so long as the state itself is secure, individuals have a much greater chance of recovering from their private misfortunes. #Thucydides — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 14, 2025

The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed #SimonedeBeauvoir

The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed #SimonedeBeauvoir — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 14, 2025

Already in 1877, Robert Louis Stevenson called busyness a symptom of deficient vitality, and observed a sort of dead-alive, hackneyed people about, who are scarcely conscious of living except in the exercise of some conventional occupation. #JennyOdell

Already in 1877, Robert Louis Stevenson called busyness a symptom of deficient vitality, and observed a sort of dead-alive, hackneyed people about, who are scarcely conscious of living except in the exercise of some conventional occupation. #JennyOdell — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 13, 2025

If by 'free will' you mean the freedom to do what you desire--then yes, humans have free will. But if by 'free will' you mean the freedom to choose what to desire--then no, humans have no free will. #YuvalNoahHarari

If by 'free will' you mean the freedom to do what you desire--then yes, humans have free will. But if by 'free will' you mean the freedom to choose what to desire--then no, humans have no free will. #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 13, 2025

Sometimes family members refuse to look at one another as a means of punishment. This is destructive to both adults and children. #GaryChapman

Sometimes family members refuse to look at one another as a means of punishment. This is destructive to both adults and children. #GaryChapman — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 13, 2025

For the dueler, what other people think of him will be the only factor in settling what he may think of himself. He cannot continue to be acceptable in his own eyes when those around him find him evil or dishonorable, a coward or a failure, a fool or an effeminate. #AlaindeBotton

For the dueler, what other people think of him will be the only factor in settling what he may think of himself. He cannot continue to be acceptable in his own eyes when those around him find him evil or dishonorable, a coward or a failure, a fool or an effeminate. #AlaindeBotton — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 13, 2025

The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities. #StephenCovey

The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities. #StephenCovey — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 12, 2025

Know how to rank your beliefs not according to their plausibility but by the harm they may cause. #NassimNicholasTaleb

Know how to rank your beliefs not according to their plausibility but by the harm they may cause. #NassimNicholasTaleb — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 12, 2025

What separates privilege from entitlement is gratitude. #BreneBrown

What separates privilege from entitlement is gratitude. #BreneBrown — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 12, 2025

In the twenty-first century we will create more powerful fictions and more totalitarian religions than in any previous era [with the help of biotechnology and computer algorithms] #YuvalNoahHarari

In the twenty-first century we will create more powerful fictions and more totalitarian religions than in any previous era [with the help of biotechnology and computer algorithms] #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 12, 2025

Being in love is an emotional and obsessive experience. However, emotions change and obsessions fade [...] Our differences begin to emerge and we often find ourselves arguing with the person whom we once thought to be perfect. #GaryChapman

Being in love is an emotional and obsessive experience. However, emotions change and obsessions fade [...] Our differences begin to emerge and we often find ourselves arguing with the person whom we once thought to be perfect. #GaryChapman — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 11, 2025

When you live under such an oligarchy, there is always some crisis or the other that takes priority over boring stuff such as healthcare and pollution. #YuvalNoahHarari

When you live under such an oligarchy, there is always some crisis or the other that takes priority over boring stuff such as healthcare and pollution. #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 11, 2025

In this, humans are similar to other domesticated animals. We have bred docile cows that produce enormous amounts of milk but are otherwise far inferior to their wild ancestors. They are less agile, less curious, and less resourceful. #YuvalNoahHarari

In this, humans are similar to other domesticated animals. We have bred docile cows that produce enormous amounts of milk but are otherwise far inferior to their wild ancestors. They are less agile, less curious, and less resourceful. #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 11, 2025

Some of those [happiness] conditions are within you, such as coherence among the parts and levels of your personality. Other conditions require relationships to things beyond you #JonathanHaidt

Some of those [happiness] conditions are within you, such as coherence among the parts and levels of your personality. Other conditions require relationships to things beyond you #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 11, 2025

It has not even entered into the heads of most of our writers to doubt whether the state of nature ever existed; but it is clear from the Holy Scriptures that the first man, having received his understanding and commandments immediately from God, was not... #JeanJacquesRousseau

It has not even entered into the heads of most of our writers to doubt whether the state of nature ever existed; but it is clear from the Holy Scriptures that the first man, having received his understanding and commandments immediately from God, was not... #JeanJacquesRousseau — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 11, 2025

We favor the sensational and the extremely visible. This affects the way we judge heroes. There is little room in our consciousness for heroes who do not deliver visible results--or those heroes who focus on process rather than results. #NassimNicholasTaleb

We favor the sensational and the extremely visible. This affects the way we judge heroes. There is little room in our consciousness for heroes who do not deliver visible results--or those heroes who focus on process rather than results. #NassimNicholasTaleb — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 11, 2025

Many of the key battles in the American culture war are essentially about whether some aspect of life should be structured by the ethic of autonomy or by the ethic of divinity. #JonathanHaidt

Many of the key battles in the American culture war are essentially about whether some aspect of life should be structured by the ethic of autonomy or by the ethic of divinity. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 10, 2025

Every flaw comes with its own compensation. #DavidBrooks

Every flaw comes with its own compensation. #DavidBrooks — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 10, 2025

But if you do, make it self-care in the activist sense that Audre Lorde meant it in the 1980s, when she said that c]aring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self preservation, and that is an act of political warfare. #JennyOdell

But if you do, make it self-care in the activist sense that Audre Lorde meant it in the 1980s, when she said that c]aring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self preservation, and that is an act of political warfare. #JennyOdell — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 10, 2025

Whenever unified thoughts, obtained through criteria based on right-wrong consciousness, become a dogma, a principle, tomorrow's ideal, or an abstract principle that demands great sacrifice today from the people for its realization tomorrow, human society begins a time of trage…

Whenever unified thoughts, obtained through criteria based on right-wrong consciousness, become a dogma, a principle, tomorrow's ideal, or an abstract principle that demands great sacrifice today from the people for its realization tomorrow, human society begins a time of trage… — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 10, 2025

The feeling that we call I is itself the product of thought. Having an ego is what it feels like to be thinking without knowing that you are thinking. #SamHarris

The feeling that we call I is itself the product of thought. Having an ego is what it feels like to be thinking without knowing that you are thinking. #SamHarris — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 9, 2025

Debates about justice and rights are often, unavoidably, debates about the purpose of social institutions, the goods they allocate, and the virtues they honor and reward... it may not be possible to say what's just without arguing about the nature of the good life. #MichaelSandel

Debates about justice and rights are often, unavoidably, debates about the purpose of social institutions, the goods they allocate, and the virtues they honor and reward... it may not be possible to say what's just without arguing about the nature of the good life. #MichaelSandel — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 9, 2025

[Death] has superior forces. Eventually, it wins. And in a war that you cannot win, you don't want a general who fights to the point of total annihilation. [You want] someone who knows how to fight for territory that can be won and how to surrender it when it can't #AtulGawande

[Death] has superior forces. Eventually, it wins. And in a war that you cannot win, you don't want a general who fights to the point of total annihilation. [You want] someone who knows how to fight for territory that can be won and how to surrender it when it can't #AtulGawande — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 9, 2025

...the reason I suggest the bioregion as a meeting grounds for our attention is not simply because it would address species loneliness, or because it enriches the human experience, or even because I believe our physical survival may depend on it. #JennyOdell

...the reason I suggest the bioregion as a meeting grounds for our attention is not simply because it would address species loneliness, or because it enriches the human experience, or even because I believe our physical survival may depend on it. #JennyOdell — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 9, 2025

Karma is about becoming the source of one's own creation. In shifting responsibility from heaven to oneself, one becomes the very maker of one's destiny. #Sadhguru

Karma is about becoming the source of one's own creation. In shifting responsibility from heaven to oneself, one becomes the very maker of one's destiny. #Sadhguru — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 9, 2025

religion may be a device that evolved through cultural evolution to enable cooperation in large groups. #JoshuaGreene

religion may be a device that evolved through cultural evolution to enable cooperation in large groups. #JoshuaGreene — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 9, 2025

At the root of adolescent sorrow and rage is the recognition that life is harder, more absurd and less fulfilling than one could ever have suspected, or had been led to suppose by kindly representatives of the adult world. #TheSchoolOfLife

At the root of adolescent sorrow and rage is the recognition that life is harder, more absurd and less fulfilling than one could ever have suspected, or had been led to suppose by kindly representatives of the adult world. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 8, 2025

We know ourselves from the inside, but others only from the outside. We are aware of all of our anxieties and doubts from within, yet all we know of others is what they happen to do and tell us--a far narrower and more edited source of information. #TheSchoolOfLife

We know ourselves from the inside, but others only from the outside. We are aware of all of our anxieties and doubts from within, yet all we know of others is what they happen to do and tell us--a far narrower and more edited source of information. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 8, 2025

John calls this a snowball effect, as disconnection spirals into more disconnection. Lonely people are scanning for threats because they unconsciously know that nobody is looking out for them, so no one will help them if they are hurt. #JohannHari

John calls this a snowball effect, as disconnection spirals into more disconnection. Lonely people are scanning for threats because they unconsciously know that nobody is looking out for them, so no one will help them if they are hurt. #JohannHari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 8, 2025

Schools help prepare us for the modern workplace and perhaps for society at large. But in order to do that, they have to break our forager spirits and train us to submit to our place in a modern hierarchy. [...] one of the first casualties is learning. #RobinHanson

Schools help prepare us for the modern workplace and perhaps for society at large. But in order to do that, they have to break our forager spirits and train us to submit to our place in a modern hierarchy. [...] one of the first casualties is learning. #RobinHanson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 8, 2025

The unempathetic person isn't usually selfish as not fully alive to the darker, more weird recesses of themselves; the parts that are a little criminal, or wild or vulnerable or sad. #TheSchoolOfLife

The unempathetic person isn't usually selfish as not fully alive to the darker, more weird recesses of themselves; the parts that are a little criminal, or wild or vulnerable or sad. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 8, 2025

There are many people who claim they can provide you with a road map. But in fact, on virtually every issue concerning marriage today, most personal advice gurus and policy makers lag behind the real changes transforming marriage. #StephanieCoontz

There are many people who claim they can provide you with a road map. But in fact, on virtually every issue concerning marriage today, most personal advice gurus and policy makers lag behind the real changes transforming marriage. #StephanieCoontz — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 8, 2025

And when people are entering upon a war they do things the wrong way round. Action comes first, and it is only when they have already suffered that they begin to think. #Thucydides

And when people are entering upon a war they do things the wrong way round. Action comes first, and it is only when they have already suffered that they begin to think. #Thucydides — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 7, 2025

When we think of all work as a matter of tool-building, the distinction between art and commerce disappears in an illuminating way. #TheSchoolOfLife

When we think of all work as a matter of tool-building, the distinction between art and commerce disappears in an illuminating way. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 7, 2025

The urge to grow and develop, present in all forms of life, becomes perverted in the Bisy Backson's mind into a constant struggle to change everything (the Bulldozer Backson) and everyone (the Bigoted Backson) else but himself, and interfere with things... #BenjaminHoff

The urge to grow and develop, present in all forms of life, becomes perverted in the Bisy Backson's mind into a constant struggle to change everything (the Bulldozer Backson) and everyone (the Bigoted Backson) else but himself, and interfere with things... #BenjaminHoff — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 7, 2025

Thus, to avoid collapse a new innovation must be initiated that resets the clock, allowing growth to continue and the impending singularity to be avoided. #GeoffreyWest

Thus, to avoid collapse a new innovation must be initiated that resets the clock, allowing growth to continue and the impending singularity to be avoided. #GeoffreyWest — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 7, 2025

Dramatic improvements in conditions, as humankind has experienced in recent decades, translate into greater expectations rather than greater contentment. If we don't do something about this, our future achievements too might leave us as dissatisfied as ever. #YuvalNoahHarari

Dramatic improvements in conditions, as humankind has experienced in recent decades, translate into greater expectations rather than greater contentment. If we don't do something about this, our future achievements too might leave us as dissatisfied as ever. #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 7, 2025

This revolution is not confined to the United States. Despite cultural variations, almost all industrial countries have experienced similar changes. Divorce rates tripled in France and Holland and quadrupled in Britain between 1970 and 1990. #StephanieCoontz

This revolution is not confined to the United States. Despite cultural variations, almost all industrial countries have experienced similar changes. Divorce rates tripled in France and Holland and quadrupled in Britain between 1970 and 1990. #StephanieCoontz — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 6, 2025

Your biggest fear ought to be wasting your life and time, not Am I going to have x number of dollars when I'm 80? #BillPerkins

Your biggest fear ought to be wasting your life and time, not Am I going to have x number of dollars when I'm 80? #BillPerkins — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 6, 2025

happiness does not really depend on objective conditions of either wealth, health or even community. Rather, it depends on the correlation between objective conditions and subjective expectations. #YuvalNoahHarari

happiness does not really depend on objective conditions of either wealth, health or even community. Rather, it depends on the correlation between objective conditions and subjective expectations. #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 6, 2025

A soul mate isn't just someone we love. As for our grandparents, there are probably lots of people out there whom we could settle down with and, in the fulness of time, grow to love. But we want more than love. #AzizAnsari

A soul mate isn't just someone we love. As for our grandparents, there are probably lots of people out there whom we could settle down with and, in the fulness of time, grow to love. But we want more than love. #AzizAnsari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 6, 2025

...we know that habits are most malleable when the Golden Rule of habit change is applied: If we keep the same cue and the same reward, a new routine can be inserted. #CharlesDuhigg

...we know that habits are most malleable when the Golden Rule of habit change is applied: If we keep the same cue and the same reward, a new routine can be inserted. #CharlesDuhigg — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 6, 2025

It's not how good you are, It's how good you want to be. #PaulArden

It's not how good you are, It's how good you want to be. #PaulArden — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 6, 2025

Children who grow up in the company of difficult adults cannot change or get rid of their caregivers. From a position of impotence, they settle on doing one thing extremely well: hoping against hope that these adults will magically change and learn to be kind. #TheSchoolOfLife

Children who grow up in the company of difficult adults cannot change or get rid of their caregivers. From a position of impotence, they settle on doing one thing extremely well: hoping against hope that these adults will magically change and learn to be kind. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 5, 2025

[Intersectional social justice] exhibits a deep cultural relativism, focuses on marginalized groups, and has little time for universal principles or individual intellectual diversity. #HelenPluckrose

[Intersectional social justice] exhibits a deep cultural relativism, focuses on marginalized groups, and has little time for universal principles or individual intellectual diversity. #HelenPluckrose — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 5, 2025

In order to feel less lonely, most of us don't need to be pushed into going out or given yet more encouragement to track down perfect lovers; we need society to change its stories about what solitude can mean. #TheSchoolOfLife

In order to feel less lonely, most of us don't need to be pushed into going out or given yet more encouragement to track down perfect lovers; we need society to change its stories about what solitude can mean. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 5, 2025

Mistakes are not dead ends; they are sources of information that can be exploited and put to work as guides to more effective subsequent action. The sound and fury can be made to yield hugely significant insights. #TheSchoolOfLife

Mistakes are not dead ends; they are sources of information that can be exploited and put to work as guides to more effective subsequent action. The sound and fury can be made to yield hugely significant insights. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 5, 2025

It is impossible to sort out neatly in order of importance all the factors that rearranged social and political life between the 1960s and the 1990s and in the process transformed marriage as well. #StephanieCoontz

It is impossible to sort out neatly in order of importance all the factors that rearranged social and political life between the 1960s and the 1990s and in the process transformed marriage as well. #StephanieCoontz — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 5, 2025

[The status forms of love] has no sexual dimension, it cannot end in marriage, those who offer it usually bear secondary motives--and yet status beloveds will, just like romantic ones, enjoy protection under the benevolent gaze of appreciative others. #AlaindeBotton

[The status forms of love] has no sexual dimension, it cannot end in marriage, those who offer it usually bear secondary motives--and yet status beloveds will, just like romantic ones, enjoy protection under the benevolent gaze of appreciative others. #AlaindeBotton — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 5, 2025

One of the deepest truths, [William] James said, was that we experience life as a divided self, torn by conflicting desires. Religious experiences are real and common, whether or not God exists, and these experiences often make people feel whole and at peace #JonathanHaidt

One of the deepest truths, [William] James said, was that we experience life as a divided self, torn by conflicting desires. Religious experiences are real and common, whether or not God exists, and these experiences often make people feel whole and at peace #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 4, 2025

The best practice for interviews is to have the candidate talk to multiple people who know what the role needs, with each interviewer asking different questions so that the group emerges with a well-rounded perspective. #JulieZhuo

The best practice for interviews is to have the candidate talk to multiple people who know what the role needs, with each interviewer asking different questions so that the group emerges with a well-rounded perspective. #JulieZhuo — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 4, 2025

Therapy is building a better alternative, a new default. And that takes repetition, and time, honestly, it works best if someone understands how the brain changes. This is why understanding how trauma impacts our health is essential for everyone. #BruceDPerry

Therapy is building a better alternative, a new default. And that takes repetition, and time, honestly, it works best if someone understands how the brain changes. This is why understanding how trauma impacts our health is essential for everyone. #BruceDPerry — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 4, 2025

Civil disobedience in the attention economy means withdrawing attention. But doing that by loudly quitting Facebook and then tweeting about it is the same mistake as thinking that the imaginary Pera is a real island that we can reach by boat. #JennyOdell

Civil disobedience in the attention economy means withdrawing attention. But doing that by loudly quitting Facebook and then tweeting about it is the same mistake as thinking that the imaginary Pera is a real island that we can reach by boat. #JennyOdell — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 4, 2025

...when we have more options, we are actually less satisfied and sometimes even have a harder time making a choice at all. #AzizAnsari

...when we have more options, we are actually less satisfied and sometimes even have a harder time making a choice at all. #AzizAnsari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 4, 2025

And if you do achieve coherence, the moment when things come together may be one of the most profound of your life. Like the moviegoer who later finds out what she missed in the first half hour, your life will suddenly make more sense. #JonathanHaidt

And if you do achieve coherence, the moment when things come together may be one of the most profound of your life. Like the moviegoer who later finds out what she missed in the first half hour, your life will suddenly make more sense. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 3, 2025

If you check your texts often while trying to work, you aren't only losing the little bursts of time you spend looking at the texts--you are also losing the time it takes to refocus afterward, which can be much longer. #JohannHari

If you check your texts often while trying to work, you aren't only losing the little bursts of time you spend looking at the texts--you are also losing the time it takes to refocus afterward, which can be much longer. #JohannHari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 3, 2025

We all have at least the potential to make more money in the future, we can never go back and recapture time that is now gone. So it makes no sense to let opportunities pass us by for fear of squandering our money. #BillPerkins

We all have at least the potential to make more money in the future, we can never go back and recapture time that is now gone. So it makes no sense to let opportunities pass us by for fear of squandering our money. #BillPerkins — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 3, 2025

It is no accident that authoritarian regimes exert substantial pressure on independent media. Because public interest is most easily aroused by dramatic events and by celebrities, media feeding frenzies are common. #DanielKahneman

It is no accident that authoritarian regimes exert substantial pressure on independent media. Because public interest is most easily aroused by dramatic events and by celebrities, media feeding frenzies are common. #DanielKahneman — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 3, 2025

If criticism from outside proves devastating, it is because it so readily joins forces with an infinitely more strident and more aggressive form of criticism that has long existed inside of us. #TheSchoolOfLife

If criticism from outside proves devastating, it is because it so readily joins forces with an infinitely more strident and more aggressive form of criticism that has long existed inside of us. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 3, 2025

Why do we care about what other people earn or own? Because we tend to regard life as an ongoing competition for social status. #WilliamBIrvine

Why do we care about what other people earn or own? Because we tend to regard life as an ongoing competition for social status. #WilliamBIrvine — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 2, 2025

IF YOUR CHILD IS READY FOR FIRST GRADE: 1979 EDITION [...] 1. Will your child be six years, six months or older when he begins first grade and starts receiving reading instruction? 2. Does your child have two to five permanent or second teeth? #JonathanHaidt

IF YOUR CHILD IS READY FOR FIRST GRADE: 1979 EDITION [...] 1. Will your child be six years, six months or older when he begins first grade and starts receiving reading instruction? 2. Does your child have two to five permanent or second teeth? #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 2, 2025

A stupid decision that works out well becomes a brilliant decision in hindsight. #DanielKahneman

A stupid decision that works out well becomes a brilliant decision in hindsight. #DanielKahneman — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 2, 2025

[The] most fundamental character [of common sense] is that it is a conception which, even in the brain of one individual, is fragmentary, incoherent and inconsequential. #AntonioGramsci

[The] most fundamental character [of common sense] is that it is a conception which, even in the brain of one individual, is fragmentary, incoherent and inconsequential. #AntonioGramsci — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 2, 2025

You want to give enough unconditional love to keep your child's emotional tank full, and a key way to do this is through proper use of eye contact. #GaryChapman

You want to give enough unconditional love to keep your child's emotional tank full, and a key way to do this is through proper use of eye contact. #GaryChapman — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 2, 2025

Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false. #CharlesCalebColton

Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false. #CharlesCalebColton — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 1, 2025

We live in a society that encourages us to think about how to have a great career but leaves many of us inarticulate about how to cultivate the inner life. #DavidBrooks

We live in a society that encourages us to think about how to have a great career but leaves many of us inarticulate about how to cultivate the inner life. #DavidBrooks — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 1, 2025

It is worth thinking deeply about how other people live and how their minds work. They have complex inner lives just like you. #JohannHari

It is worth thinking deeply about how other people live and how their minds work. They have complex inner lives just like you. #JohannHari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 1, 2025

...face whatever it is. Then I dare you to walk toward it. In this way, the world may reveal itself to you as something magical and awe-inspiring that does not require escape. Instead, the world may become something worth paying attention to. #AnnaLembke