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Besides, I know the Athenian character from experience: you like to be told pleasant news, but if things do not turn out in the way you have been led to expect, then you blame your informants afterwards. I therefore thought it safer to let you know the truth. #Thucydides — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 1, 2025

Experts who acknowledge the full extent of their ignorance may expect to be replaced by more confident competitors, who are better able to gain the trust of clients. #DanielKahneman

Experts who acknowledge the full extent of their ignorance may expect to be replaced by more confident competitors, who are better able to gain the trust of clients. #DanielKahneman — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 1, 2025

The emotions an artist experiences [...] are nonetheless channeled into something constructive, and the observer of the final piece might be challenged to pay attention to the issues in question and align himself with the artist's motivations. #DerrenBrown

The emotions an artist experiences [...] are nonetheless channeled into something constructive, and the observer of the final piece might be challenged to pay attention to the issues in question and align himself with the artist's motivations. #DerrenBrown — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 31, 2025

Nothing is more common than to pursue self-esteem by means that will not and cannot work [...] Instead of valuing personal authenticity, we may value belonging to the right clubs, or the right church, or the right political party. #NathanielBranden

Nothing is more common than to pursue self-esteem by means that will not and cannot work [...] Instead of valuing personal authenticity, we may value belonging to the right clubs, or the right church, or the right political party. #NathanielBranden — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 31, 2025

Even when they do not panic men often sense that older ways off feeling and thinking have collapsed and that newer beginnings are ambiguous to the point of stasis. #CWrightMills

Even when they do not panic men often sense that older ways off feeling and thinking have collapsed and that newer beginnings are ambiguous to the point of stasis. #CWrightMills — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 31, 2025

People disagree about the meaning of books, bodies, and schools, and how they should be valued. In fact, we disagree about the norms appropriate to many of the domains that markets have invaded #MichaelSandel

People disagree about the meaning of books, bodies, and schools, and how they should be valued. In fact, we disagree about the norms appropriate to many of the domains that markets have invaded #MichaelSandel — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 31, 2025

...we cannot investigate everything ourselves. But precisely because of that, we need at least to investigate carefully our favourite sources of information--be they a newspaper, a website, a TV network or a person. #YuvalNoahHarari

...we cannot investigate everything ourselves. But precisely because of that, we need at least to investigate carefully our favourite sources of information--be they a newspaper, a website, a TV network or a person. #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 31, 2025

It is profoundly ironic that a movement claiming to problematize all sources of privilege is led by highly educated, upper-middle-class scholars and activists who are so oblivious to their status as privileged members of society. #HelenPluckrose

It is profoundly ironic that a movement claiming to problematize all sources of privilege is led by highly educated, upper-middle-class scholars and activists who are so oblivious to their status as privileged members of society. #HelenPluckrose — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 30, 2025

It's an astonishing gradual evolution to develop the ability to do this--to explain other people's behaviour as caused by their distress, rather than simply to see it in terms of how it affects us. #TheSchoolOfLife

It's an astonishing gradual evolution to develop the ability to do this--to explain other people's behaviour as caused by their distress, rather than simply to see it in terms of how it affects us. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 30, 2025

[The savage] listens solely to the dispositions implanted in him by nature, and not to taste which he never was in a way of acquiring #JeanJacquesRousseau

[The savage] listens solely to the dispositions implanted in him by nature, and not to taste which he never was in a way of acquiring #JeanJacquesRousseau — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 30, 2025

The person under the influence of any of those extravagant passions, is not only miserable in his actual situation, but is often disposed to disturb the peace of society, in order to arrive at that which he so foolishly admires. #AdamSmith

The person under the influence of any of those extravagant passions, is not only miserable in his actual situation, but is often disposed to disturb the peace of society, in order to arrive at that which he so foolishly admires. #AdamSmith — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 30, 2025

[Being] good and generous even when no one is watching [is] possible only when [people] do not feel emotionally exhausted and belittled, because they have been cared for in the past--and so have reserves of tenderness to lend to others in the future. #TheSchoolOfLife

[Being] good and generous even when no one is watching [is] possible only when [people] do not feel emotionally exhausted and belittled, because they have been cared for in the past--and so have reserves of tenderness to lend to others in the future. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 30, 2025

The good parent isn't looking for a balanced relationship. It is happy to give unilaterally. It doesn't need to be asked how its day was or what it thinks of the government's new policy on insurance. #TheSchoolOfLife

The good parent isn't looking for a balanced relationship. It is happy to give unilaterally. It doesn't need to be asked how its day was or what it thinks of the government's new policy on insurance. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 30, 2025

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present. #MarcusAurelius

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present. #MarcusAurelius — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 29, 2025

Idealism easily becomes dangerous because it brings with it, almost inevitably, the belief that the ends justify the means. If you are fighting for good or for God, what matters is the outcome not the path. People have little respect for rules; we respect the moral #JonathanHaidt

Idealism easily becomes dangerous because it brings with it, almost inevitably, the belief that the ends justify the means. If you are fighting for good or for God, what matters is the outcome not the path. People have little respect for rules; we respect the moral #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 29, 2025

If God commanded you to torture and kill a child, would that make it right? He would never do that! you might object [...] (As it happens, the God of the Old Testament did command people to slaughter children quite often.) #StevenPinker

If God commanded you to torture and kill a child, would that make it right? He would never do that! you might object [...] (As it happens, the God of the Old Testament did command people to slaughter children quite often.) #StevenPinker — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 29, 2025

So much of our unhappiness comes from ruminating over past events or worrying about possible future ones. Guilt, in particular, is very pervasive. #DerrenBrown

So much of our unhappiness comes from ruminating over past events or worrying about possible future ones. Guilt, in particular, is very pervasive. #DerrenBrown — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 29, 2025

Believe me, it is tough to deal with the social consequences of the appearance of continuous failure. We are social animals; hell is other people. #NassimNicholasTaleb

Believe me, it is tough to deal with the social consequences of the appearance of continuous failure. We are social animals; hell is other people. #NassimNicholasTaleb — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 29, 2025

Life is filled with opportunities to express love by acts of service. #GaryChapman

Life is filled with opportunities to express love by acts of service. #GaryChapman — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 29, 2025

Some studies have already shown that diversity courses, in which members of dominant groups are told that racism is everywhere and that they themselves perpetuate it, have resulted in increased hostility towards marginalized groups. #HelenPluckrose

Some studies have already shown that diversity courses, in which members of dominant groups are told that racism is everywhere and that they themselves perpetuate it, have resulted in increased hostility towards marginalized groups. #HelenPluckrose — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 28, 2025

There's a natural instinct embedded in friendship, a sympathy that makes us willing to fight for someone we like when they are treated unjustly. #CharlesDuhigg

There's a natural instinct embedded in friendship, a sympathy that makes us willing to fight for someone we like when they are treated unjustly. #CharlesDuhigg — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 28, 2025

The feminists had destroyed the old image of woman, but they could not erase the hostility, the prejudice, the discrimination that still remained. #BettyFriedan

The feminists had destroyed the old image of woman, but they could not erase the hostility, the prejudice, the discrimination that still remained. #BettyFriedan — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 28, 2025

Things just happen in the right way, at the right time. At least when you let them, when you work with circumstances instead of saying, 'This isn't supposed to be happening this way,' and trying harder to make it happen some other way. #BenjaminHoff

Things just happen in the right way, at the right time. At least when you let them, when you work with circumstances instead of saying, 'This isn't supposed to be happening this way,' and trying harder to make it happen some other way. #BenjaminHoff — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 28, 2025

For me, hot conveyed an admiration of excellent bone structure. #AngelaChen

For me, hot conveyed an admiration of excellent bone structure. #AngelaChen — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 28, 2025

...we must deny that, even before the deluge, men were ever in the pure state of nature; unless, indeed, they fell back into it from some very extraordinary circumstance; a paradox which it would be very embarrassing to defend, and quite impossible to prove. #JeanJacquesRousseau

...we must deny that, even before the deluge, men were ever in the pure state of nature; unless, indeed, they fell back into it from some very extraordinary circumstance; a paradox which it would be very embarrassing to defend, and quite impossible to prove. #JeanJacquesRousseau — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 27, 2025

The best sort of thinking emerges when we have no set agenda, in the hollows of the day [...] It is then that our best, but also most furtive, thoughts may be lured out of the unconscious and can be glimpsed by reason before they run away again. #TheSchoolOfLife

The best sort of thinking emerges when we have no set agenda, in the hollows of the day [...] It is then that our best, but also most furtive, thoughts may be lured out of the unconscious and can be glimpsed by reason before they run away again. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 27, 2025

But what is most surprising in Religions, Values, and Peak Experiences is Maslow's attack on science for becoming as sterile as organized religion. #JonathanHaidt

But what is most surprising in Religions, Values, and Peak Experiences is Maslow's attack on science for becoming as sterile as organized religion. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 27, 2025

In regarding ourselves as normal, we regard those who have a different form of social living as abnormal; our unalterable principle becomes universally valid. #QianNing

In regarding ourselves as normal, we regard those who have a different form of social living as abnormal; our unalterable principle becomes universally valid. #QianNing — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 27, 2025

When you walk the walk, whether successful or not, you feel more indifferent and robust to people's opinion, freer, more real. #NassimNicholasTaleb

When you walk the walk, whether successful or not, you feel more indifferent and robust to people's opinion, freer, more real. #NassimNicholasTaleb — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 27, 2025

Arriving at an acceptance of one's mortality and a clear understanding of the limits and the possibilities of medicine is a process, not an epiphany #AtulGawande

Arriving at an acceptance of one's mortality and a clear understanding of the limits and the possibilities of medicine is a process, not an epiphany #AtulGawande — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 26, 2025

In fact, war may be just another obstacle an enlightened species learns to overcome, like pestilence, hunger, and poverty. #StevenPinker

In fact, war may be just another obstacle an enlightened species learns to overcome, like pestilence, hunger, and poverty. #StevenPinker — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 26, 2025

...so long as we are alive, we will be alert to danger and in some way at risk. The only people with full security are the dead; the only people who can be truly at peace are under the ground; cemeteries are the only definitively calm places around. #TheSchoolOfLife

...so long as we are alive, we will be alert to danger and in some way at risk. The only people with full security are the dead; the only people who can be truly at peace are under the ground; cemeteries are the only definitively calm places around. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 26, 2025

Perhaps if I truly felt so strongly that I didn't want to have sex, I would have said no every time. But that doesn't encapsulate the pressure and feeling of brokenness that I felt--the unspoken social norm that because I didn't have a good reason to deny him... #AngelaChen

Perhaps if I truly felt so strongly that I didn't want to have sex, I would have said no every time. But that doesn't encapsulate the pressure and feeling of brokenness that I felt--the unspoken social norm that because I didn't have a good reason to deny him... #AngelaChen — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 26, 2025

Choose to measure yourself not as a rising star or an undiscovered genius. Choose to measure yourself not as some horrible victim or dismal failure. Instead, measure yourself by more mundane identities: a student, a partner, a friend, a creator. #MarkManson

Choose to measure yourself not as a rising star or an undiscovered genius. Choose to measure yourself not as some horrible victim or dismal failure. Instead, measure yourself by more mundane identities: a student, a partner, a friend, a creator. #MarkManson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 26, 2025

Do what nobody else wants to do; go where nobody else wants to go #DavidBrooks

Do what nobody else wants to do; go where nobody else wants to go #DavidBrooks — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 26, 2025

Usually when we hear or read something new, we just compare it to our own ideas. If it is the same, we accept it and say that it is correct. If it is not, we say it is incorrect. In either case, we learn nothing. #ThichNhatHanh

Usually when we hear or read something new, we just compare it to our own ideas. If it is the same, we accept it and say that it is correct. If it is not, we say it is incorrect. In either case, we learn nothing. #ThichNhatHanh — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 25, 2025

[Free Trait Theory] explains how it's possible for an extroverted scientist to behave with reserve in her laboratory, for an agreeable person to act hard-nosed during a business negotiation, and for a cantankerous uncle to treat his niece tenderly... #SusanCain

[Free Trait Theory] explains how it's possible for an extroverted scientist to behave with reserve in her laboratory, for an agreeable person to act hard-nosed during a business negotiation, and for a cantankerous uncle to treat his niece tenderly... #SusanCain — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 25, 2025

As long as there have been men and they have lived, they have all felt this tragic ambiguity of their condition, but as long as there have been philosophers and they have thought, most of them have tried to mask it. #SimonedeBeauvoir

As long as there have been men and they have lived, they have all felt this tragic ambiguity of their condition, but as long as there have been philosophers and they have thought, most of them have tried to mask it. #SimonedeBeauvoir — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 25, 2025

As it is a major component of blood, water is vital for transporting oxygen to the brain. Heaven forbid that your blood should dry out. #BenGoldacre

As it is a major component of blood, water is vital for transporting oxygen to the brain. Heaven forbid that your blood should dry out. #BenGoldacre — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 25, 2025

Because in the twenty-first century, when we think by the seat of our pants, every correction can make things worse, and can send our democracy into a graveyard spiral. #StevenPinker

Because in the twenty-first century, when we think by the seat of our pants, every correction can make things worse, and can send our democracy into a graveyard spiral. #StevenPinker — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 25, 2025

Just improve yourself; that is the only thing you can do to better the world. #LudwigWittgenstein

Just improve yourself; that is the only thing you can do to better the world. #LudwigWittgenstein — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 25, 2025

You don't want the people you work with to merely pay lip service. #RayDalio

You don't want the people you work with to merely pay lip service. #RayDalio — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 24, 2025

The word slavery and right are contradictory, they cancel each other out. Whether as between one man and another, or between one man and a whole people, it would always be absurd... #JeanJacquesRousseau

The word slavery and right are contradictory, they cancel each other out. Whether as between one man and another, or between one man and a whole people, it would always be absurd... #JeanJacquesRousseau — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 24, 2025

There are also jobs where, beyond a certain skill level, the only path for growth is learning how to manage and coordinate the work of more and more people--for example, in customer support or retail sales #JulieZhuo

There are also jobs where, beyond a certain skill level, the only path for growth is learning how to manage and coordinate the work of more and more people--for example, in customer support or retail sales #JulieZhuo — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 24, 2025

One of the most common lessons people draw from bereavement or trauma is that they are much stronger than they realized, and this new appreciation of their strength then gives them confidence to face future challenges. #JonathanHaidt

One of the most common lessons people draw from bereavement or trauma is that they are much stronger than they realized, and this new appreciation of their strength then gives them confidence to face future challenges. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 24, 2025

Optimists are normally cheerful and happy, and therefore popular #DanielKahneman

Optimists are normally cheerful and happy, and therefore popular #DanielKahneman — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 24, 2025

Where the Greeks focused on the character of a person and asked what kind of person we should each aim to become, modern ethics focuses on actions, asking when a particular action is right or wrong. #JonathanHaidt

Where the Greeks focused on the character of a person and asked what kind of person we should each aim to become, modern ethics focuses on actions, asking when a particular action is right or wrong. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 24, 2025

We should give our children an early, gentle taste of how much unhappiness and resignation all halfway decent lives exact. #TheSchoolOfLife

We should give our children an early, gentle taste of how much unhappiness and resignation all halfway decent lives exact. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 23, 2025

When you're Singapore's leader and your existence depends on performance--extraordinary performance, better than your competitors--when that performance disappears because the system on which it's been based becomes eroded, then you've lost everything... #LeeKuanYew

When you're Singapore's leader and your existence depends on performance--extraordinary performance, better than your competitors--when that performance disappears because the system on which it's been based becomes eroded, then you've lost everything... #LeeKuanYew — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 23, 2025

They [women] haven't been encouraged since childhood to wear a total lack of self-awareness as a badge of pride. On the contrary, the message they've been getting is that they are 'intuitive'. They are 'nurturers' and 'good listeners'. #RobertWebb

They [women] haven't been encouraged since childhood to wear a total lack of self-awareness as a badge of pride. On the contrary, the message they've been getting is that they are 'intuitive'. They are 'nurturers' and 'good listeners'. #RobertWebb — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 23, 2025

The more you love, the more you can love. A person who has one child does not love that child less when the second and third child come along. #DavidBrooks

The more you love, the more you can love. A person who has one child does not love that child less when the second and third child come along. #DavidBrooks — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 23, 2025

Evolutionarily speaking, there is seldom any mystery in why we seek the goals we seek--why, for example, people would rather make love with an attractive partner than get a slap on the belly with a wet fish. #StevenPinker

Evolutionarily speaking, there is seldom any mystery in why we seek the goals we seek--why, for example, people would rather make love with an attractive partner than get a slap on the belly with a wet fish. #StevenPinker — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 23, 2025

What separates the sane insane from the simply insane is the honest, personable and accurate grasp they have on what is not entirely right with them. They may not be wholly balanced, but they don't have the additional folly of insisting on their normalcy. #TheSchoolOfLife

What separates the sane insane from the simply insane is the honest, personable and accurate grasp they have on what is not entirely right with them. They may not be wholly balanced, but they don't have the additional folly of insisting on their normalcy. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 23, 2025

This dual demand has ushered in a particular difficulty of modern life: that we must simultaneously pursue two very complicated ambitions, although these are far from inevitably aligned. We need to satisfy the soul and pay for our material existence. #TheSchoolOfLife

This dual demand has ushered in a particular difficulty of modern life: that we must simultaneously pursue two very complicated ambitions, although these are far from inevitably aligned. We need to satisfy the soul and pay for our material existence. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 22, 2025

The moment the person leading a company thinks numbers have value in themselves, the company's done. The moment the CFO becomes CEO--it's done. Game over. #ElonMusk

The moment the person leading a company thinks numbers have value in themselves, the company's done. The moment the CFO becomes CEO--it's done. Game over. #ElonMusk — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 22, 2025

The most obvious reason for giving the best flutes to the best flute players is that doing so will produce the best music, making us listeners better off. #MichaelSandel

The most obvious reason for giving the best flutes to the best flute players is that doing so will produce the best music, making us listeners better off. #MichaelSandel — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 22, 2025

We cannot look squarely at either death or the sun. #FrancoisdeLaRochefoucauld

We cannot look squarely at either death or the sun. #FrancoisdeLaRochefoucauld — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 22, 2025

The indifference is the deadweight of history. The indifference operates with great power on history. The indifference operates passively, but it operates. It is fate, that which cannot be counted on. It twists programs and ruins the best-conceived plans. #AntonioGramsci

The indifference is the deadweight of history. The indifference operates with great power on history. The indifference operates passively, but it operates. It is fate, that which cannot be counted on. It twists programs and ruins the best-conceived plans. #AntonioGramsci — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 22, 2025

A world in which we keep our own wrongs firmly in mind becomes, paradoxically, a truly virtuous and humane place. #TheSchoolOfLife

A world in which we keep our own wrongs firmly in mind becomes, paradoxically, a truly virtuous and humane place. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 22, 2025

Existence becomes overcomplicated when we submit ourselves to tasks or possessions without having a clear sense of their purpose. [...] Simplicity, therefore, can be defined as the result and precious fruit of clarifying our goals. #TheSchoolOfLife

Existence becomes overcomplicated when we submit ourselves to tasks or possessions without having a clear sense of their purpose. [...] Simplicity, therefore, can be defined as the result and precious fruit of clarifying our goals. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 21, 2025

In order to improve for good, you need to solve problems at the systems level. Fix the inputs and the outputs will fix themselves. #JamesClear

In order to improve for good, you need to solve problems at the systems level. Fix the inputs and the outputs will fix themselves. #JamesClear — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 21, 2025

Some say the heart is the most selfish organ in the body because it keeps all the good blood for itself. It takes in all the good blood, the most oxygenated blood, and then distributes the rest to every other organ. #VishenLakhiani

Some say the heart is the most selfish organ in the body because it keeps all the good blood for itself. It takes in all the good blood, the most oxygenated blood, and then distributes the rest to every other organ. #VishenLakhiani — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 21, 2025

[Haidt's final project to make you] a better person, using all the tools of psychology, and then prove that you have done so... most successful ones usually either use cognitive behavioral therapy on themselves (it really does work!) or employ a strength, or both. #JonathanHaidt

[Haidt's final project to make you] a better person, using all the tools of psychology, and then prove that you have done so... most successful ones usually either use cognitive behavioral therapy on themselves (it really does work!) or employ a strength, or both. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 21, 2025

...human beings need loyalty. It does not necessarily produce happiness, and can even be painful, but we all require devotion to something more than ourselves for our lives to be endurable. Without it, we have only our desires to guide us, and they are fleeting... #AtulGawande

...human beings need loyalty. It does not necessarily produce happiness, and can even be painful, but we all require devotion to something more than ourselves for our lives to be endurable. Without it, we have only our desires to guide us, and they are fleeting... #AtulGawande — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 21, 2025

...what living things provide. In place of boredom, they offer spontaneity. In place of loneliness, they offer companionship. In place of helplessness, they offer a chance to take care of another being. #AtulGawande

...what living things provide. In place of boredom, they offer spontaneity. In place of loneliness, they offer companionship. In place of helplessness, they offer a chance to take care of another being. #AtulGawande — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 21, 2025

But just as our consciousness is a maze, so too is our body. Everywhere you turn there's darkness, and a blind spot. Everywhere you find silent hints, everywhere a surprise is waiting for you. #HarukiMurakami

But just as our consciousness is a maze, so too is our body. Everywhere you turn there's darkness, and a blind spot. Everywhere you find silent hints, everywhere a surprise is waiting for you. #HarukiMurakami — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 20, 2025

It is not the content of your life that matters. It is the context of your life that does. #Sadhguru

It is not the content of your life that matters. It is the context of your life that does. #Sadhguru — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 20, 2025

We have begun to know someone properly whenever they have started substantially to disappoint us. #TheSchoolOfLife

We have begun to know someone properly whenever they have started substantially to disappoint us. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 20, 2025

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread. #MahatmaGandhi

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread. #MahatmaGandhi — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 20, 2025

Racism has no place here. As though the fruit and nuts aisle of the Whole Foods in Seattle had been a known gathering place for the Klan. #DouglasMurray

Racism has no place here. As though the fruit and nuts aisle of the Whole Foods in Seattle had been a known gathering place for the Klan. #DouglasMurray — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 20, 2025

Well-meaning guides usually point out that sexual norms are too rigid and that everyone would be happier if we stopped worrying about having sex exactly like everyone else. However, almost no books go on to say that it's okay if someone doesn't want to have sex at all #AngelaChen

Well-meaning guides usually point out that sexual norms are too rigid and that everyone would be happier if we stopped worrying about having sex exactly like everyone else. However, almost no books go on to say that it's okay if someone doesn't want to have sex at all #AngelaChen — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 20, 2025

It may be the work of decades to develop a wiser power to feel sad about, rather than eternally responsible for, those we love but cannot change. And perhaps, at points, in the interests of self-preservation, to move on. #TheSchoolOfLife

It may be the work of decades to develop a wiser power to feel sad about, rather than eternally responsible for, those we love but cannot change. And perhaps, at points, in the interests of self-preservation, to move on. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 19, 2025

You foolishly judge other people by their abilities, not by their worth. You do not have a strategy to build character, and without that, not only your inner life but also your external life will eventually fall to pieces. #DavidBrooks

You foolishly judge other people by their abilities, not by their worth. You do not have a strategy to build character, and without that, not only your inner life but also your external life will eventually fall to pieces. #DavidBrooks — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 19, 2025

While we may think we know what we want, we're often wrong. #AzizAnsari

While we may think we know what we want, we're often wrong. #AzizAnsari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 19, 2025

...because the poor having nothing but their liberty to lose, it would have been the height of madness in them to give up willingly the only blessing they had left without obtaining some consideration for it #JeanJacquesRousseau

...because the poor having nothing but their liberty to lose, it would have been the height of madness in them to give up willingly the only blessing they had left without obtaining some consideration for it #JeanJacquesRousseau — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 19, 2025

Because the news is about the exceptional, and the more exceptional an event is--be it a terrorist attack, violent uprising, or natural disaster--the bigger its newsworthiness. #RutgerBregman

Because the news is about the exceptional, and the more exceptional an event is--be it a terrorist attack, violent uprising, or natural disaster--the bigger its newsworthiness. #RutgerBregman — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 19, 2025

Improving by 1 percent isn't particularly notable--sometimes it isn't even noticeable--but it can be far more meaningful, especially in the long run. The difference a tiny improvement can make over time is astounding. #JamesClear

Improving by 1 percent isn't particularly notable--sometimes it isn't even noticeable--but it can be far more meaningful, especially in the long run. The difference a tiny improvement can make over time is astounding. #JamesClear — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 18, 2025

It's great that our economic system produces an abundance of food at low prices, but the flip side is an epidemic of obesity. #JonathanHaidt

It's great that our economic system produces an abundance of food at low prices, but the flip side is an epidemic of obesity. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 18, 2025

Our gut reactions were not designed to form a coherent moral philosophy. Thus, any truly coherent philosophy is bound to offend us, sometimes in the real world but especially in the world of philosophical thought experiments. #JoshuaGreene

Our gut reactions were not designed to form a coherent moral philosophy. Thus, any truly coherent philosophy is bound to offend us, sometimes in the real world but especially in the world of philosophical thought experiments. #JoshuaGreene — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 18, 2025

Do you really want to be anything you could be? Is that not too much? Might it not be better to be something specific (and then, perhaps, to add to that)? Would that not come as a relief--even though it is also a sacrifice? #JordanPeterson

Do you really want to be anything you could be? Is that not too much? Might it not be better to be something specific (and then, perhaps, to add to that)? Would that not come as a relief--even though it is also a sacrifice? #JordanPeterson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 18, 2025

The myth of pure evil is the ultimate self-serving bias, the ultimate form of naive realism. And it is the ultimate cause of most long-running cycles of violence because both sides use it to lock themselves into a Manichaean struggle. #JonathanHaidt

- August 17, 2025

The myth of pure evil is the ultimate self-serving bias, the ultimate form of naive realism. And it is the ultimate cause of most long-running cycles of violence because both sides use it to lock themselves into a Manichaean struggle. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 18, 2025

Body language, however, is mostly not arbitrary. Instead, nonverbal behaviors are meaningfully, functionally related to the messages they're conveying. We show emotional excitement, for example, by being physically excited: making noise, waving our arms... #KevinSimler

- August 17, 2025

Body language, however, is mostly not arbitrary. Instead, nonverbal behaviors are meaningfully, functionally related to the messages they're conveying. We show emotional excitement, for example, by being physically excited: making noise, waving our arms... #KevinSimler — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 17, 2025

The natural processes of context and attention are lost. But from the point of view of Twitter's financial model, the storm is nothing but a bounteous uptick in engagement. #JennyOdell

- August 16, 2025

The natural processes of context and attention are lost. But from the point of view of Twitter's financial model, the storm is nothing but a bounteous uptick in engagement. #JennyOdell — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 16, 2025

...do things spontaneously and have them work, odd as that may appear to others at times. As Piglet put it in Winnie-the-Pooh, Pooh hasn't much Brain, but he never comes to any harm. He does silly things and they turn out right. #BenjaminHoff

- August 16, 2025

...do things spontaneously and have them work, odd as that may appear to others at times. As Piglet put it in Winnie-the-Pooh, Pooh hasn't much Brain, but he never comes to any harm. He does silly things and they turn out right. #BenjaminHoff — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 16, 2025

People no longer needed to marry in order to construct successful lives or long-lasting sexual relationships. With that, thousands of years of tradition came to an end. #StephanieCoontz

- August 16, 2025

People no longer needed to marry in order to construct successful lives or long-lasting sexual relationships. With that, thousands of years of tradition came to an end. #StephanieCoontz — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 16, 2025

But women do not say 'We', except at some congress of feminists or similar formal demonstration; men say 'women', and women use the same word in referring to themselves. #SimonedeBeauvoir

But women do not say 'We', except at some congress of feminists or similar formal demonstration; men say 'women', and women use the same word in referring to themselves. #SimonedeBeauvoir — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 16, 2025

We think we want ease and comfort, and of course we do from time to time, but there is something inside us that longs for some calling that requires dedication and sacrifice. #DavidBrooks

We think we want ease and comfort, and of course we do from time to time, but there is something inside us that longs for some calling that requires dedication and sacrifice. #DavidBrooks — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 16, 2025

Aim. Point. All this is part of maturation and discipline, and something to be properly valued. #JordanPeterson

Aim. Point. All this is part of maturation and discipline, and something to be properly valued. #JordanPeterson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 15, 2025

Our attention is focused on classifying, analyzing, and determining levels of wrongness rather than on what we and others need and are not getting. #MarshallRosenberg

Our attention is focused on classifying, analyzing, and determining levels of wrongness rather than on what we and others need and are not getting. #MarshallRosenberg — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 15, 2025

The more we have been humiliated, especially when young, the more the goodwill of strangers will matter; and--conversely--the more we have tasted genuine affection, the less interesting reputation can be. #TheSchoolOfLife

The more we have been humiliated, especially when young, the more the goodwill of strangers will matter; and--conversely--the more we have tasted genuine affection, the less interesting reputation can be. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 15, 2025

When we fail to set boundaries and hold people accountable, we feel used and mistreated. This is why we sometimes attack who they are, which is far more hurtful than addressing a behavior or a choice. #BreneBrown

When we fail to set boundaries and hold people accountable, we feel used and mistreated. This is why we sometimes attack who they are, which is far more hurtful than addressing a behavior or a choice. #BreneBrown — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 15, 2025

But it is possible to create a society in which everybody is given not equal rewards, but equal opportunities, and where rewards vary not in accordance with the ownership of property, but with the worth of a person's contribution to that society. #LeeKuanYew

But it is possible to create a society in which everybody is given not equal rewards, but equal opportunities, and where rewards vary not in accordance with the ownership of property, but with the worth of a person's contribution to that society. #LeeKuanYew — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 15, 2025

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware. #HenryMiller

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware. #HenryMiller — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 15, 2025

Human thinking depends on metaphor. We understand new or complex things in relation to things we already know. #JonathanHaidt

Human thinking depends on metaphor. We understand new or complex things in relation to things we already know. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 14, 2025

Real love--This kind of love is emotional in nature but not obsessional. It is a love that unites reason and emotion. It involves an act of the will and requires discipline, and it recognizes the need for personal growth. #GaryChapman

Real love--This kind of love is emotional in nature but not obsessional. It is a love that unites reason and emotion. It involves an act of the will and requires discipline, and it recognizes the need for personal growth. #GaryChapman — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 14, 2025

...for the shield may be as important for victory, as the sword or spear. #CharlesDarwin

...for the shield may be as important for victory, as the sword or spear. #CharlesDarwin — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 14, 2025

If you have a society where people can't agree on the basic facts, how do you have a functioning democracy? #MartinBaron

If you have a society where people can't agree on the basic facts, how do you have a functioning democracy? #MartinBaron — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 14, 2025

No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it. #PauloCoelho

No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it. #PauloCoelho — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 14, 2025

The science is so clear on this that a recent summary explained: It is now obvious that stress can cause structural changes in the brain with long-term effects. #JohannHari

The science is so clear on this that a recent summary explained: It is now obvious that stress can cause structural changes in the brain with long-term effects. #JohannHari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 14, 2025

'Climate change is...' you're going to see different results depending on where you live. In certain cities, you're gonna see it autocomplete with 'climate change is a hoax'. In other cases, you're gonna see 'climate change is causing the destruction of nature'. #DerrenBrown

'Climate change is...' you're going to see different results depending on where you live. In certain cities, you're gonna see it autocomplete with 'climate change is a hoax'. In other cases, you're gonna see 'climate change is causing the destruction of nature'. #DerrenBrown — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 13, 2025

Witnessing extraordinarily skillful actions gives people the drive and energy to try to copy those actions. Elevation, in contrast, is a calmer feeling, not associated with signs of physiological arousal. #JonathanHaidt

Witnessing extraordinarily skillful actions gives people the drive and energy to try to copy those actions. Elevation, in contrast, is a calmer feeling, not associated with signs of physiological arousal. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 13, 2025

To be loved means to be recognized as existing. #ThichNhatHanh

To be loved means to be recognized as existing. #ThichNhatHanh — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 13, 2025

[Being properly mature] involves accepting that not everything that makes us happy will please others or be honoured as especially 'nice', but it can be important to explore and hold on to it nevertheless. #AlaindeBotton

[Being properly mature] involves accepting that not everything that makes us happy will please others or be honoured as especially 'nice', but it can be important to explore and hold on to it nevertheless. #AlaindeBotton — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 13, 2025

There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved. #GeorgeSand

There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved. #GeorgeSand — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 13, 2025

...workers were paid the least possible amounts; only the responsibilities enforced by law were embraced; governments were lobbied to reduce consumer and environmental protection; quality was reduced as low as the market would allow... #TheSchoolOfLife

...workers were paid the least possible amounts; only the responsibilities enforced by law were embraced; governments were lobbied to reduce consumer and environmental protection; quality was reduced as low as the market would allow... #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 13, 2025

The path to confidence is not to build up a child; it is to knock down society as a whole. #TheSchoolOfLife

The path to confidence is not to build up a child; it is to knock down society as a whole. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 12, 2025

[A movement] grows because of the habits of a community, and the weak ties that hold neighborhoods and clans together. And it endures because a movement's leaders give participants new habits that create a fresh sense of identity and a feeling of ownership. #CharlesDuhigg

[A movement] grows because of the habits of a community, and the weak ties that hold neighborhoods and clans together. And it endures because a movement's leaders give participants new habits that create a fresh sense of identity and a feeling of ownership. #CharlesDuhigg — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 12, 2025

If you're chasing the forward gap, the chase will never end. No matter how good life gets, you'll always be chasing the next idea on the horizon. And just like the actual horizon, you can't catch it. It will always remain ahead of you. #VishenLakhiani

If you're chasing the forward gap, the chase will never end. No matter how good life gets, you'll always be chasing the next idea on the horizon. And just like the actual horizon, you can't catch it. It will always remain ahead of you. #VishenLakhiani — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 12, 2025

The task is not to tell children that they are amazing; it is to model for them how one might live a decent, self-accepting, humour-filled and confident life knowing one is very imperfect--but, fortunately, so is everyone else. #TheSchoolOfLife

The task is not to tell children that they are amazing; it is to model for them how one might live a decent, self-accepting, humour-filled and confident life knowing one is very imperfect--but, fortunately, so is everyone else. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 12, 2025

Women are always saying, we can do anything that men can do. But Men should be saying, we can do anything that women can do. #GloriaSteinem

Women are always saying, we can do anything that men can do. But Men should be saying, we can do anything that women can do. #GloriaSteinem — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 12, 2025

Tea is an act complete in its simplicity. When I drink tea, there is only me and the tea. The rest of the world dissolves. #ThichNhatHanh

Tea is an act complete in its simplicity. When I drink tea, there is only me and the tea. The rest of the world dissolves. #ThichNhatHanh — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 12, 2025

The imagination which causes so many ravages among us, never speaks to the heart of savages #JeanJacquesRousseau

The imagination which causes so many ravages among us, never speaks to the heart of savages #JeanJacquesRousseau — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 11, 2025

Poor old Germany. Too big for Europe, too small for the world. #HenryKissinger

Poor old Germany. Too big for Europe, too small for the world. #HenryKissinger — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 11, 2025

The antidote to a meaningless and lawless existence was provided by humanism, a revolutionary new creed that conquered the world during the last few centuries. #YuvalNoahHarari

The antidote to a meaningless and lawless existence was provided by humanism, a revolutionary new creed that conquered the world during the last few centuries. #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 11, 2025

Truly great works that have stood the test of time, on the other hand, are lodged in our memory forever. #HarukiMurakami

Truly great works that have stood the test of time, on the other hand, are lodged in our memory forever. #HarukiMurakami — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 11, 2025

If you say that something is technically correct, you are suggesting that it is wrong--the adverb before correct implies a but. #MoiraWeigel

If you say that something is technically correct, you are suggesting that it is wrong--the adverb before correct implies a but. #MoiraWeigel — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 11, 2025

A nation is great not by its size alone. It is the will, the cohesion, the stamina, the discipline of its people and the quality of their leaders which ensure it an honourable place in history. #LeeKuanYew

A nation is great not by its size alone. It is the will, the cohesion, the stamina, the discipline of its people and the quality of their leaders which ensure it an honourable place in history. #LeeKuanYew — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 11, 2025

What's not acceptable is sycophancy: brown-nosing, bootlicking, groveling, toadying, and sucking up. #RobinHanson

What's not acceptable is sycophancy: brown-nosing, bootlicking, groveling, toadying, and sucking up. #RobinHanson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 10, 2025

One study found that most of us working in offices never get a whole hour uninterrupted in a normal day. #JohannHari

One study found that most of us working in offices never get a whole hour uninterrupted in a normal day. #JohannHari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 10, 2025

The right part of the jungle is where your work and home environments are happy places to be. #StevePeters

The right part of the jungle is where your work and home environments are happy places to be. #StevePeters — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 10, 2025

By becoming more conscious of ourselves, we apply our will: we create value and fashion our futures. This deliberate engagement with a fuller self is similar to the path that Jung envisioned for what he called 'the second half of life'. #DerrenBrown

By becoming more conscious of ourselves, we apply our will: we create value and fashion our futures. This deliberate engagement with a fuller self is similar to the path that Jung envisioned for what he called 'the second half of life'. #DerrenBrown — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 10, 2025

Choose not to be harmed--and you won't feel harmed. Don't feel harmed--and you haven't been. #JonathanHaidt

Choose not to be harmed--and you won't feel harmed. Don't feel harmed--and you haven't been. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 10, 2025

Everything in my own immediate experience supports my deep belief that I am the absolute center of the universe; the realest, most vivid and important person in existence. #DavidBrooks

Everything in my own immediate experience supports my deep belief that I am the absolute center of the universe; the realest, most vivid and important person in existence. #DavidBrooks — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 10, 2025

An American professor of political science did a survey in China and found that most Chinese believed in democracy but simultaneously endorsed unified thinking. Almost nobody recognized the inconsistency between the two notions. #QianNing

An American professor of political science did a survey in China and found that most Chinese believed in democracy but simultaneously endorsed unified thinking. Almost nobody recognized the inconsistency between the two notions. #QianNing — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 9, 2025

In his 1923 book I and Thou, the philosopher Martin Buber draws a distinction between what he calls I-It and I-Thou ways of seeing. In I-It, the other (a thing or a person) is an it that exists only as an instrument or means to an end #JennyOdell

In his 1923 book I and Thou, the philosopher Martin Buber draws a distinction between what he calls I-It and I-Thou ways of seeing. In I-It, the other (a thing or a person) is an it that exists only as an instrument or means to an end #JennyOdell — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 9, 2025

It is not for its own sake that men desire money, but for the sake of what they can purchase with it. #AdamSmith

It is not for its own sake that men desire money, but for the sake of what they can purchase with it. #AdamSmith — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 9, 2025

...caution is the proper attitude, an awareness of the limits the foundation of wisdom. #DavidBrooks

...caution is the proper attitude, an awareness of the limits the foundation of wisdom. #DavidBrooks — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 9, 2025

[Nasty people's] punishment lies in the pain they must be enduring in order to have such an urgent need to lash out. We, who have no wish to hurt, are in fact the stronger party; we, who have no wish to diminish others, are truly powerful. #AlaindeBotton

[Nasty people's] punishment lies in the pain they must be enduring in order to have such an urgent need to lash out. We, who have no wish to hurt, are in fact the stronger party; we, who have no wish to diminish others, are truly powerful. #AlaindeBotton — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 9, 2025

Love is by definition an unmerited gift; being loved without meriting it is the very proof of real love. If a woman tells me: I love you because you're intelligent, because you're decent... then I'm disappointed; such love seems a rather self-interested business. #MilanKundera

Love is by definition an unmerited gift; being loved without meriting it is the very proof of real love. If a woman tells me: I love you because you're intelligent, because you're decent... then I'm disappointed; such love seems a rather self-interested business. #MilanKundera — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 9, 2025

...I adopted a policy of circulating through the whole force to the full limit imposed by physical considerations. I did my best to meet everyone from general to private with a smile, a pat on the back and a definite interest in his problems. #DavidBrooks

...I adopted a policy of circulating through the whole force to the full limit imposed by physical considerations. I did my best to meet everyone from general to private with a smile, a pat on the back and a definite interest in his problems. #DavidBrooks — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 8, 2025

Differ though we might with Christianity's view of what precisely our souls need [...] which seems no less relevant in the secular realm than in the religious one--that we have within us a precious, childlike, vulnerable core which we should nourish and nurture... #AlaindeBotton

Differ though we might with Christianity's view of what precisely our souls need [...] which seems no less relevant in the secular realm than in the religious one--that we have within us a precious, childlike, vulnerable core which we should nourish and nurture... #AlaindeBotton — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 8, 2025

I never wavered in my certainty that God did not exist. I was simply liberated by the thought that there might be a way to engage with religion without having to subscribe to its supernatural content #AlaindeBotton

I never wavered in my certainty that God did not exist. I was simply liberated by the thought that there might be a way to engage with religion without having to subscribe to its supernatural content #AlaindeBotton — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 8, 2025

...a mind confused by knowledge, cleverness and abstract ideas tends to go chasing after things that don't matter, or that don't even exists, instead of seeing, appreciating, and making use of what is fit in front of it. #BenjaminHoff

...a mind confused by knowledge, cleverness and abstract ideas tends to go chasing after things that don't matter, or that don't even exists, instead of seeing, appreciating, and making use of what is fit in front of it. #BenjaminHoff — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 8, 2025

...'science' seems to many less a creative ethos and a manner of orientation than a set of Science Machines, operated by technicians and controlled by economic and military men who neither embody nor understand science as ethos and orientation. #CWrightMills

...'science' seems to many less a creative ethos and a manner of orientation than a set of Science Machines, operated by technicians and controlled by economic and military men who neither embody nor understand science as ethos and orientation. #CWrightMills — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 8, 2025

When you inflict suffering on yourself in the name of some story, it give you a choice: 'Either the story is true, or I am a gullible fool.' And just as we don't want to admit we are fools [...] so we prefer to believe that the story is true. #YuvalNoahHarari

When you inflict suffering on yourself in the name of some story, it give you a choice: 'Either the story is true, or I am a gullible fool.' And just as we don't want to admit we are fools [...] so we prefer to believe that the story is true. #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 8, 2025

Positive psychologists insisted that people need to increase their happiness not only when things go wrong, but also when things go well, thus introducing a fundamentally new role to academic psychology: not only correcting suffering, but maximizing selfhood. #EvaIllouz

Positive psychologists insisted that people need to increase their happiness not only when things go wrong, but also when things go well, thus introducing a fundamentally new role to academic psychology: not only correcting suffering, but maximizing selfhood. #EvaIllouz — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 7, 2025

In the same way that differing, developed individuals contribute to Mill's view of society and make it worth belonging to, so too the differences between people in a relationship can be precisely the substance of what makes it valuable. #DerrenBrown

In the same way that differing, developed individuals contribute to Mill's view of society and make it worth belonging to, so too the differences between people in a relationship can be precisely the substance of what makes it valuable. #DerrenBrown — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 7, 2025

...dysfunctional habits can't turn around simply because a leader orders it. Rather, wise executives seek out moments of crisis--or create the perception of crisis--and cultivate the sense that something must change, until everyone is finally ready to overhaul... #CharlesDuhigg

...dysfunctional habits can't turn around simply because a leader orders it. Rather, wise executives seek out moments of crisis--or create the perception of crisis--and cultivate the sense that something must change, until everyone is finally ready to overhaul... #CharlesDuhigg — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 7, 2025

Life is complex, and if you want to understand it, you have to set aside a fair bit of time to think deeply about it. You need to slow down. #JohannHari

Life is complex, and if you want to understand it, you have to set aside a fair bit of time to think deeply about it. You need to slow down. #JohannHari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 7, 2025

Spend your free time the way you like, not the way you think you're supposed to. Stay home on New Year's Eve if that's what makes you happy. Skip the committee meeting. Cross the street to avoid making aimless chitchat with random acquaintances. #SusanCain

Spend your free time the way you like, not the way you think you're supposed to. Stay home on New Year's Eve if that's what makes you happy. Skip the committee meeting. Cross the street to avoid making aimless chitchat with random acquaintances. #SusanCain — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 7, 2025

...there is no conflict between someone being a racist (say) and his being a misogynist. On the contrary, it makes sense that a person would be fixated on his position in multiple salient social hierarchies. #KateManne

...there is no conflict between someone being a racist (say) and his being a misogynist. On the contrary, it makes sense that a person would be fixated on his position in multiple salient social hierarchies. #KateManne — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 7, 2025

It can even be embarrassing to demonstrate poor aesthetic judgment. We don't want others to know that we're inept at telling good art from bad, skilled artists from amateurs. #RobinHanson

It can even be embarrassing to demonstrate poor aesthetic judgment. We don't want others to know that we're inept at telling good art from bad, skilled artists from amateurs. #RobinHanson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 6, 2025

We do not live our lives and experience our existence as solved beings. #DouglasMurray

We do not live our lives and experience our existence as solved beings. #DouglasMurray — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 6, 2025

What barrier is there that love cannot break? #MahatmaGandhi

What barrier is there that love cannot break? #MahatmaGandhi — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 6, 2025

A common tenet of Western philosophies: you can remove an item from its environment and analyze it separately... Cultural theorists call this specific thinking. Chinese [...] by contrast, have traditionally emphasized interdependencies and interconnectedness. #ErinMeyer

A common tenet of Western philosophies: you can remove an item from its environment and analyze it separately... Cultural theorists call this specific thinking. Chinese [...] by contrast, have traditionally emphasized interdependencies and interconnectedness. #ErinMeyer — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 6, 2025

Cultural frames name and define the emotion, set the limits of its intensity, specify the norms and values attached to it, and provide symbols and cultural scenarios that make it socially communicative. #EvaIllouz

Cultural frames name and define the emotion, set the limits of its intensity, specify the norms and values attached to it, and provide symbols and cultural scenarios that make it socially communicative. #EvaIllouz — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 6, 2025

Death solves all problems--no man, no problem. #JosefStalin

Death solves all problems--no man, no problem. #JosefStalin — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 6, 2025

Others think that the bases track neatly onto emotions so that holding hands is a little bit intimate and kissing more intimate and having sex the most intimate thing of all. Reality is rarely this neat or linear. #AngelaChen

Others think that the bases track neatly onto emotions so that holding hands is a little bit intimate and kissing more intimate and having sex the most intimate thing of all. Reality is rarely this neat or linear. #AngelaChen — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 5, 2025

If we want to do what matters in any domain--any context in life--we have to be able to give attention to the right things... If we can't do that, it's really hard to do anything. #JohannHari

If we want to do what matters in any domain--any context in life--we have to be able to give attention to the right things... If we can't do that, it's really hard to do anything. #JohannHari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 5, 2025

It is the secular whose longing for perfection has grown so intense as to lead them to imagine that paradise might be realized on this earth after just a few more years of financial growth and medical research. #AlaindeBotton

It is the secular whose longing for perfection has grown so intense as to lead them to imagine that paradise might be realized on this earth after just a few more years of financial growth and medical research. #AlaindeBotton — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 5, 2025

Our life is what our thoughts make it. #MarcusAurelius

Our life is what our thoughts make it. #MarcusAurelius — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 5, 2025

The inability of a young man to settle down in a family may increase the likelihood of his drifting toward violence. #NicholasDKristof

The inability of a young man to settle down in a family may increase the likelihood of his drifting toward violence. #NicholasDKristof — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 5, 2025

When examining how people from different cultures relate to one another, what matters is not the absolute position of either culture on the scale but rather the relative position of the two... It is this relative positioning that determines how people view one another. #ErinMeyer

When examining how people from different cultures relate to one another, what matters is not the absolute position of either culture on the scale but rather the relative position of the two... It is this relative positioning that determines how people view one another. #ErinMeyer — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 5, 2025

Woman's sexual problems are, in this sense, by-products of the suppression of her basic need to grow and fulfill her potentialities as a human being, potentialities which the mystique of feminine fulfillment ignores. #BettyFriedan

Woman's sexual problems are, in this sense, by-products of the suppression of her basic need to grow and fulfill her potentialities as a human being, potentialities which the mystique of feminine fulfillment ignores. #BettyFriedan — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 4, 2025

...deeper in are the circles that contain our more intimate selves, involving feelings about parents, secret fears, daydreams, ambitions that might never be realized, the stranger recesses of our sexual imagination and all that we find beautiful and moving. #AlaindeBotton

...deeper in are the circles that contain our more intimate selves, involving feelings about parents, secret fears, daydreams, ambitions that might never be realized, the stranger recesses of our sexual imagination and all that we find beautiful and moving. #AlaindeBotton — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 4, 2025

Large angels take a long time unfolding their wings, but when they do, soar out of sight. #DavidBrooks

Large angels take a long time unfolding their wings, but when they do, soar out of sight. #DavidBrooks — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 4, 2025

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge. #CarlSagan

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge. #CarlSagan — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 4, 2025

As the body disappears, so does our ability to empathize. #JennyOdell

As the body disappears, so does our ability to empathize. #JennyOdell — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 4, 2025

Chris [a man using shame to control women, the literal voice of compulsory sexuality] took the idea that women should be free to pursue sex and turned it into the idea that women aren't free unless they have sex--with him. #AngelaChen

Chris [a man using shame to control women, the literal voice of compulsory sexuality] took the idea that women should be free to pursue sex and turned it into the idea that women aren't free unless they have sex--with him. #AngelaChen — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 4, 2025

But the process [of sexual liberation] remains half-finished. Only when we make sure that being single can be potentially as secure, warm and fulfilling as being in a couple will we know that people are choosing to pair up for the right reasons. #TheSchoolOfLife

But the process [of sexual liberation] remains half-finished. Only when we make sure that being single can be potentially as secure, warm and fulfilling as being in a couple will we know that people are choosing to pair up for the right reasons. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 3, 2025

Once we relinquish our egos, and loosen ourselves from the grip of our primitive defensive and aggressive thought-processes, we are free to consider humanity in a much more benign light. #TheSchoolOfLife

Once we relinquish our egos, and loosen ourselves from the grip of our primitive defensive and aggressive thought-processes, we are free to consider humanity in a much more benign light. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 3, 2025

Changing any habit requires determination. #CharlesDuhigg

Changing any habit requires determination. #CharlesDuhigg — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 3, 2025

I shall always reign through the intellect, but the life! The life! O my god! Shall that never be sweet? #MargeretFuller

I shall always reign through the intellect, but the life! The life! O my god! Shall that never be sweet? #MargeretFuller — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 3, 2025

The problem with the Americans is that they go in believing they have the power to change the system. #LeeKuanYew

The problem with the Americans is that they go in believing they have the power to change the system. #LeeKuanYew — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 3, 2025

...when your hand or mind wanders, my importance is shattered. Conversely, if I no longer feel special, my own hands and mind tingle with curiosity. The disillusioned are prone to roam. Might someone else restore my significance #EstherPerel

...when your hand or mind wanders, my importance is shattered. Conversely, if I no longer feel special, my own hands and mind tingle with curiosity. The disillusioned are prone to roam. Might someone else restore my significance #EstherPerel — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 3, 2025

If [Children] just hold on long enough, and are sufficiently polite and compliant, then the difficult adult will take mercy and alter. These suffering souls then take their misguided patience out into their adult relationships, with similarly negligible results. #TheSchoolOfLife

If [Children] just hold on long enough, and are sufficiently polite and compliant, then the difficult adult will take mercy and alter. These suffering souls then take their misguided patience out into their adult relationships, with similarly negligible results. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 2, 2025

True love often finds its expression in acts of serve. It is service freely given, not out of fear but out of choice. It comes out of personal discovery that it is more blessed to give than to receive #GaryChapman

True love often finds its expression in acts of serve. It is service freely given, not out of fear but out of choice. It comes out of personal discovery that it is more blessed to give than to receive #GaryChapman — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 2, 2025

What if you didn't have to prove anything to the people in your life for them to like you? #MarkManson

What if you didn't have to prove anything to the people in your life for them to like you? #MarkManson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 2, 2025

A small island is not just a place on the map; it's a psychological destination, a model of simplifying your life and making do with what is immediately to hand. You may not even have to take a plane or a boat to get there. #TheSchoolOfLife

A small island is not just a place on the map; it's a psychological destination, a model of simplifying your life and making do with what is immediately to hand. You may not even have to take a plane or a boat to get there. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 2, 2025

All men are intellectuals, but not all men have in society the function of intellectuals #AntonioGramsci

All men are intellectuals, but not all men have in society the function of intellectuals #AntonioGramsci — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 1, 2025

In America, freedom carries with it a certain weight. Not every mainland Chinese could bear that burden. #QianNing

In America, freedom carries with it a certain weight. Not every mainland Chinese could bear that burden. #QianNing — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 1, 2025

Men should think twice before making widowhood women's only path to power. #GloriaSteinem

Men should think twice before making widowhood women's only path to power. #GloriaSteinem — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 1, 2025

Another study, of 38,000 knowledge workers across different sectors, found that the simple act of being interrupted is one of the biggest barriers to productivity. Even multitasking, that prized feat of modern-day office warriors, turns out to be a myth. #SusanCain