English Quotes

It is this financially incentivized proliferation of chatter, and the utter speed at which waves of hysteria now happen online, that has so deeply horrified me and offended my senses and cognition as a human who dwells in human, bodily time. #JennyOdell — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 1, 2025

But in most contexts, we start to bristle when people get too full of themselves. It's part of that forager aversion to dominance, since bragging is a way to increase one's influence and dominance within a community. #KevinSimler

But in most contexts, we start to bristle when people get too full of themselves. It's part of that forager aversion to dominance, since bragging is a way to increase one's influence and dominance within a community. #KevinSimler — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 30, 2025

Replace your overdramatic worldview with a worldview based on facts. You will be able to get the world right without learning it by heart. You will make better decisions, stay alert to real dangers and possibilities and avoid being constantly stressed about the wrong #HansRosling

Replace your overdramatic worldview with a worldview based on facts. You will be able to get the world right without learning it by heart. You will make better decisions, stay alert to real dangers and possibilities and avoid being constantly stressed about the wrong #HansRosling — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 30, 2025

Nietzsche was a fervent admirer of individuality and would have considered the idea of the higher man as state creation both absurd and abhorrent. #JordanPeterson

Nietzsche was a fervent admirer of individuality and would have considered the idea of the higher man as state creation both absurd and abhorrent. #JordanPeterson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 30, 2025

As long as bad things have not vanished from the face of the earth, there will always be enough incidents to fill the news, especially when billions of smartphones turn most of the world's population into crime reporters and war correspondents. #StevenPinker

As long as bad things have not vanished from the face of the earth, there will always be enough incidents to fill the news, especially when billions of smartphones turn most of the world's population into crime reporters and war correspondents. #StevenPinker — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 30, 2025

Values cannot be changed through reason, only through experience. #MarkManson

Values cannot be changed through reason, only through experience. #MarkManson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 30, 2025

Each generation tends to see the one after it as weak, whiny, and lacking in resilience. #JonathanHaidt

Each generation tends to see the one after it as weak, whiny, and lacking in resilience. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 29, 2025

Lighthouses don't go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining. #AnneLamott

Lighthouses don't go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining. #AnneLamott — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 29, 2025

INTROVERTS are especially vulnerable to challenges like marital tension, a parent's death, or abuse. They're more likely than their peers to react to these events with depression, anxiety, and shyness. #SusanCain

INTROVERTS are especially vulnerable to challenges like marital tension, a parent's death, or abuse. They're more likely than their peers to react to these events with depression, anxiety, and shyness. #SusanCain — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 29, 2025

Our society is eloquent on the advantages of money; it pays desperately little attention to the advantages of bypassing certain opportunities to make it, especially in terms of the calm that might be gained. #TheSchoolOfLife

Our society is eloquent on the advantages of money; it pays desperately little attention to the advantages of bypassing certain opportunities to make it, especially in terms of the calm that might be gained. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 29, 2025

Newberg believes that rituals that involve repetitive movement and chanting, particularly when they are performed by many people at the same time, help to set up resonance patterns in the brains of the participants that make this mystical state more likely... #JonathanHaidt

Newberg believes that rituals that involve repetitive movement and chanting, particularly when they are performed by many people at the same time, help to set up resonance patterns in the brains of the participants that make this mystical state more likely... #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 29, 2025

The diminished economic and cultural status of working people in recent decades is not the result of inexorable forces; it is the result of the way mainstream political parties and elites have governed. #MichaelSandel

The diminished economic and cultural status of working people in recent decades is not the result of inexorable forces; it is the result of the way mainstream political parties and elites have governed. #MichaelSandel — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 29, 2025

It is the industry which is carried on for the benefit of the rich and powerful, that is principally encouraged by our mercantile system. That which is carried on for the benefit of the poor and the indigent, is too often, either neglected, or oppressed. #AdamSmith

It is the industry which is carried on for the benefit of the rich and powerful, that is principally encouraged by our mercantile system. That which is carried on for the benefit of the poor and the indigent, is too often, either neglected, or oppressed. #AdamSmith — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 28, 2025

Love is essential, gregariousness is optional. #SusanCain

Love is essential, gregariousness is optional. #SusanCain — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 28, 2025

Always take your job seriously, never yourself. #DavidBrooks

Always take your job seriously, never yourself. #DavidBrooks — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 28, 2025

Because the elephant has a tendency to over-indulge, the rider needs to encourage it to get up and move on to another activity. #JonathanHaidt

Because the elephant has a tendency to over-indulge, the rider needs to encourage it to get up and move on to another activity. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 28, 2025

Recall the richly compensated meth dealer and the modestly paid high school teacher. #MichaelSandel

Recall the richly compensated meth dealer and the modestly paid high school teacher. #MichaelSandel — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 27, 2025

This is the reverse of what tends to happen around adults; here we imagine that others have deliberately got us in their sights. But if we employed the infant model of interpretation, our first assumptions would be quite different. #TheSchoolOfLife

This is the reverse of what tends to happen around adults; here we imagine that others have deliberately got us in their sights. But if we employed the infant model of interpretation, our first assumptions would be quite different. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 27, 2025

Just as public space gives way to faux public retail spaces or weird corporate privatized parks, so we are sold the idea of compromised leisure, a freemium leisure that is a very far cry from what we will. #JennyOdell

Just as public space gives way to faux public retail spaces or weird corporate privatized parks, so we are sold the idea of compromised leisure, a freemium leisure that is a very far cry from what we will. #JennyOdell — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 27, 2025

It takes time and experience to absorb new technologies, so technologically backward producers need a period of protection from international competition during this period of learning. #HaJoonChang

It takes time and experience to absorb new technologies, so technologically backward producers need a period of protection from international competition during this period of learning. #HaJoonChang — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 27, 2025

People throughout history worried that unless we put all our faith in some set of absolute answers, human society will crumble. #YuvalNoahHarari

People throughout history worried that unless we put all our faith in some set of absolute answers, human society will crumble. #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 27, 2025

The recent debunking of beliefs that invite or tolerate violence call to mind Voltaire's quip that those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. #StevenPinker

The recent debunking of beliefs that invite or tolerate violence call to mind Voltaire's quip that those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. #StevenPinker — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 26, 2025

...to live lives of decency and dignity [without great wealth]--developing and exercising their abilities in work that wins social esteem, sharing in a widely diffused culture of learning, and deliberating with their fellow citizens about public affairs. #MichaelSandel

...to live lives of decency and dignity [without great wealth]--developing and exercising their abilities in work that wins social esteem, sharing in a widely diffused culture of learning, and deliberating with their fellow citizens about public affairs. #MichaelSandel — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 26, 2025

Everyone could, in theory, behave with benevolence and sensitivity. But this doesn't come naturally when a person has had to wait for the bus for forty minutes in the rain, when they haven't had sex in a month, when the boiler has broken again... #TheSchoolOfLife

Everyone could, in theory, behave with benevolence and sensitivity. But this doesn't come naturally when a person has had to wait for the bus for forty minutes in the rain, when they haven't had sex in a month, when the boiler has broken again... #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 26, 2025

...a knifefish will never see through the eyes of a mantis shrimp, a mantis shrimp will never smell the way a dog can, and a dog will never understand what it is to be a bat. We will never fully do any of these things either, but we are the only animal that can try. #EdYong

...a knifefish will never see through the eyes of a mantis shrimp, a mantis shrimp will never smell the way a dog can, and a dog will never understand what it is to be a bat. We will never fully do any of these things either, but we are the only animal that can try. #EdYong — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 26, 2025

Nowhere is our concern for how others treat others more apparent than in our intense engagement with fiction. Were we purely selfish, we wouldn't pay good money to hear a made-up story about a ragtag group of orphans who [...] outfox a criminal gang. #JoshuaGreene

Nowhere is our concern for how others treat others more apparent than in our intense engagement with fiction. Were we purely selfish, we wouldn't pay good money to hear a made-up story about a ragtag group of orphans who [...] outfox a criminal gang. #JoshuaGreene — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 26, 2025

When you make your bed each day, you embody the identity of an organized person. When you write each day, you embody the identity of a creative person. When you train each day, you embody the identity of an athletic person. #JamesClear

When you make your bed each day, you embody the identity of an organized person. When you write each day, you embody the identity of a creative person. When you train each day, you embody the identity of an athletic person. #JamesClear — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 26, 2025

To will is to engage myself to persevere in my will. #SimonedeBeauvoir

To will is to engage myself to persevere in my will. #SimonedeBeauvoir — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 25, 2025

When all goes smoothly, which is most of the time, System 2 [i.e. deliberate thinking] adopts the suggestions of System 1 [intuitive thinking] with little or no modification. #DanielKahneman

When all goes smoothly, which is most of the time, System 2 [i.e. deliberate thinking] adopts the suggestions of System 1 [intuitive thinking] with little or no modification. #DanielKahneman — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 25, 2025

(It's not just Hollywood that perpetrates the myth [of true love]; Bollywood, the Indian film industry, is even more romanticized.) But if true love is defined as eternal passion, it is biologically impossible. #JonathanHaidt

(It's not just Hollywood that perpetrates the myth [of true love]; Bollywood, the Indian film industry, is even more romanticized.) But if true love is defined as eternal passion, it is biologically impossible. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 25, 2025

There is also a good case to be made for the importance of imaginative or pretend play, which is found not only in less rambunctious kinds of indoor free play but often in rough-and-tumble outdoor free play as well. #JonathanHaidt

There is also a good case to be made for the importance of imaginative or pretend play, which is found not only in less rambunctious kinds of indoor free play but often in rough-and-tumble outdoor free play as well. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 25, 2025

The rain that fell on the city runs down the dark gutters and empties into the sea without even soaking the ground. #HarukiMurakami

- September 24, 2025

The rain that fell on the city runs down the dark gutters and empties into the sea without even soaking the ground. #HarukiMurakami — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 24, 2025

Pennebaker asked people to write about the most upsetting or traumatic experience of your entire life, preferably one they had not talked about [...] The people who wrote about traumas went to the doctor or the hospital fewer times in the following year. #JonathanHaidt

- September 24, 2025

Pennebaker asked people to write about the most upsetting or traumatic experience of your entire life, preferably one they had not talked about [...] The people who wrote about traumas went to the doctor or the hospital fewer times in the following year. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 24, 2025

The most emotionally mature parent should still hang a sign: 'I love you--but I will give you issues.' #TheSchoolOfLife

The most emotionally mature parent should still hang a sign: 'I love you--but I will give you issues.' #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 24, 2025

Accept what is bigger that you and what you do not understand. The world may appear illogical to you, but it does not follow that it is illogical per se. Our life is not the measure of all things: consider sublime places a reminder of human insignificance #AlaindeBotton

Accept what is bigger that you and what you do not understand. The world may appear illogical to you, but it does not follow that it is illogical per se. Our life is not the measure of all things: consider sublime places a reminder of human insignificance #AlaindeBotton — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 23, 2025

Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all. #AdamSmith

Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all. #AdamSmith — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 23, 2025

The melancholy have advanced knowledge of their impurity and are experts in their own sinfulness. They can't forget how silly they have been at many moments and with what lack of thought they have treated others. This self-knowledge isn't fun, but [keeps honesty] #TheSchoolOfLife

The melancholy have advanced knowledge of their impurity and are experts in their own sinfulness. They can't forget how silly they have been at many moments and with what lack of thought they have treated others. This self-knowledge isn't fun, but [keeps honesty] #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 23, 2025

In a sense we are all like a Flo Rida song: The more time you spend with us, the more you see how special we are. Social scientists refer to this as the Flo Rida Theory of Acquired Likability Through Repetition. #AzizAnsari

In a sense we are all like a Flo Rida song: The more time you spend with us, the more you see how special we are. Social scientists refer to this as the Flo Rida Theory of Acquired Likability Through Repetition. #AzizAnsari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 23, 2025

There are several reasons why real human love might make philosophers uncomfortable. First, passionate love is notorious for making people illogical and irrational, and Western philosophers have long thought that morality is grounded in rationality. #JonathanHaidt

There are several reasons why real human love might make philosophers uncomfortable. First, passionate love is notorious for making people illogical and irrational, and Western philosophers have long thought that morality is grounded in rationality. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 23, 2025

Being properly mature involves a frank, unfrightened relationship with one's own darkness, complexity and ambition. #AlaindeBotton

Being properly mature involves a frank, unfrightened relationship with one's own darkness, complexity and ambition. #AlaindeBotton — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 22, 2025

As a medium, it's safe to say, texting facilitates flakiness and rudeness and many other personality traits that would not be expressed in a phone call or an in-person interaction. #AzizAnsari

As a medium, it's safe to say, texting facilitates flakiness and rudeness and many other personality traits that would not be expressed in a phone call or an in-person interaction. #AzizAnsari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 22, 2025

One hundred year ago or less, people went to church, where they were told how to conduct their lives. Today we watch television; it is our new live guru. Where every house once had a Bible, there is now a television. #PaulArden

One hundred year ago or less, people went to church, where they were told how to conduct their lives. Today we watch television; it is our new live guru. Where every house once had a Bible, there is now a television. #PaulArden — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 22, 2025

No matter where you go, there's a five-hundred-pound load of shit waiting for you. And that's perfectly fine. The point isn't to get away from the shit. The point is to find the shit you enjoy dealing with. #MarkManson

- September 21, 2025

No matter where you go, there's a five-hundred-pound load of shit waiting for you. And that's perfectly fine. The point isn't to get away from the shit. The point is to find the shit you enjoy dealing with. #MarkManson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 22, 2025

Thus, the Mars and Venus terminology with which we have tried to explain and soothe our differences will obviously not do; in fact, it only serves to further naturalize the culturally engineered differences between men and women. #EvaIllouz

- September 21, 2025

Thus, the Mars and Venus terminology with which we have tried to explain and soothe our differences will obviously not do; in fact, it only serves to further naturalize the culturally engineered differences between men and women. #EvaIllouz — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 21, 2025

War is obsolete. You are more likely to commit suicide than be killed in conflict. Famine is disappearing. You are at more risk of obesity than starvation. Death is just a technical problem Equality is out--but immortality is in. What does our future hold? #YuvalNoahHarari

- September 21, 2025

War is obsolete. You are more likely to commit suicide than be killed in conflict. Famine is disappearing. You are at more risk of obesity than starvation. Death is just a technical problem Equality is out--but immortality is in. What does our future hold? #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 21, 2025

Morality doesn't mean 'following divine commands'. It means 'reducing suffering'. Hence in order to act morally, you don't need to believe in any myth or story. You just need to develop a deep appreciation of suffering. #YuvalNoahHarari

- September 20, 2025

Morality doesn't mean 'following divine commands'. It means 'reducing suffering'. Hence in order to act morally, you don't need to believe in any myth or story. You just need to develop a deep appreciation of suffering. #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 20, 2025

...each of us has unique neural networks, which are formed, reinforced, and constantly updated by the eclectic circumstances of our lives. Once circuits are formed, that increases the chances the same circuits will fire in the future. #DavidBrooks

- September 20, 2025

...each of us has unique neural networks, which are formed, reinforced, and constantly updated by the eclectic circumstances of our lives. Once circuits are formed, that increases the chances the same circuits will fire in the future. #DavidBrooks — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 20, 2025

But in many cases there is a method to people's madness. A problem may have been presented to them in a deceptive format, and when it is translated into a mind-friendlier guise, they solve it. #StevenPinker

But in many cases there is a method to people's madness. A problem may have been presented to them in a deceptive format, and when it is translated into a mind-friendlier guise, they solve it. #StevenPinker — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 20, 2025

Not shackled to a one-track mind, he always applied two, three, or four #DavidBrooks

Not shackled to a one-track mind, he always applied two, three, or four #DavidBrooks — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 20, 2025

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. #WinstonChurchill

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. #WinstonChurchill — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 19, 2025

The American housewife--freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth and the illnesses of her grandmother. She was healthy, beautiful, educated, concerned only about her husband, her children, her home. #BettyFriedan

The American housewife--freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth and the illnesses of her grandmother. She was healthy, beautiful, educated, concerned only about her husband, her children, her home. #BettyFriedan — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 19, 2025

...Decker, author of The Invisible Orientation: An introduction to Asexuality, tells me, we're whole people who just lack that driving force... and it's understandable in the same way that it's understandable that someone doesn't have rafts as their driving force. #AngelaChen

...Decker, author of The Invisible Orientation: An introduction to Asexuality, tells me, we're whole people who just lack that driving force... and it's understandable in the same way that it's understandable that someone doesn't have rafts as their driving force. #AngelaChen — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 19, 2025

iGen is growing up more slowly. On average, eighteen-year-olds today have spent less time unsupervised and have hit fewer developmental milestones on the path to autonomy (such as getting a job or a driver's license), compared with eighteen-year-olds [previously] #JonathanHaidt

iGen is growing up more slowly. On average, eighteen-year-olds today have spent less time unsupervised and have hit fewer developmental milestones on the path to autonomy (such as getting a job or a driver's license), compared with eighteen-year-olds [previously] #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 19, 2025

War, then, is not a relation between men, but between states; in war individuals are enemies wholly by chance, not as men, not even as citizens, but only as soldiers; not as member of their country, but only as its defenders. #JeanJacquesRousseau

War, then, is not a relation between men, but between states; in war individuals are enemies wholly by chance, not as men, not even as citizens, but only as soldiers; not as member of their country, but only as its defenders. #JeanJacquesRousseau — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 19, 2025

As Nietzsche observed, He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how. #DavidBrooks

As Nietzsche observed, He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how. #DavidBrooks — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 18, 2025

...perhaps the granularity of attention we achieve outward also extends inward, so that as the perceptual details of our environment unfold in surprising ways, so too do our own intricacies and contradictions. #JennyOdell

...perhaps the granularity of attention we achieve outward also extends inward, so that as the perceptual details of our environment unfold in surprising ways, so too do our own intricacies and contradictions. #JennyOdell — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 18, 2025

...from Hegel to Catholic social teaching, theories of contributive justice teach us that we are most fully human when we contribute to the common good and earn the esteem of our fellow citizens for the contributions we make. #MichaelSandel

- September 17, 2025

...from Hegel to Catholic social teaching, theories of contributive justice teach us that we are most fully human when we contribute to the common good and earn the esteem of our fellow citizens for the contributions we make. #MichaelSandel — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 17, 2025

[We are led to believe] that communities and the principles underpinning them are, practically speaking, immutable--even, somehow, natural. #AlaindeBotton

[We are led to believe] that communities and the principles underpinning them are, practically speaking, immutable--even, somehow, natural. #AlaindeBotton — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 17, 2025

No one should have to pass someone else's ideological purity test to be allowed to speak. University life--along with civic life--dies without the free exchange of ideas. In the face of intimidation, educators must speak up, not shut down. #JonathanHaidt

No one should have to pass someone else's ideological purity test to be allowed to speak. University life--along with civic life--dies without the free exchange of ideas. In the face of intimidation, educators must speak up, not shut down. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 17, 2025

Whatever else [people] lacked, the grand narratives of the past at least gave life meaning. The question of what exactly we are meant to do now--other than get rich where we can and have whatever fun is on offer--was going to have to be answered by something. #DouglasMurray

Whatever else [people] lacked, the grand narratives of the past at least gave life meaning. The question of what exactly we are meant to do now--other than get rich where we can and have whatever fun is on offer--was going to have to be answered by something. #DouglasMurray — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 16, 2025

Transference makes it possible for the intellectual to be much more nationalistic--more vulgar, more silly, more malignant, more dishonest--than he could ever be on behalf of his native country, or any unit of which he had real knowledge. #GeorgeOrwell

Transference makes it possible for the intellectual to be much more nationalistic--more vulgar, more silly, more malignant, more dishonest--than he could ever be on behalf of his native country, or any unit of which he had real knowledge. #GeorgeOrwell — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 16, 2025

We are parts of one universe, true enough. We stand within an almost infinite network of relationships. Yet each of us is a single point of consciousness, a unique event, a private, unrepeatable world. This is the essence of our aloneness. #NathanielBranden

We are parts of one universe, true enough. We stand within an almost infinite network of relationships. Yet each of us is a single point of consciousness, a unique event, a private, unrepeatable world. This is the essence of our aloneness. #NathanielBranden — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 16, 2025

Once the storm is over, you won't remember how you made it through [...] You won't even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won't be the same person who walked in. That's what [it is] all about. -body2

Once the storm is over, you won't remember how you made it through [...] You won't even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won't be the same person who walked in. That's what [it is] all about. -body2 — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 16, 2025

The impression somehow prevails that the true believer, particularly the religious individual, is a humble person. The truth is the surrendering and humbling of the self breed pride and arrogance. The true believer is apt to see himself as one of the chosen... #EricHoffer

The impression somehow prevails that the true believer, particularly the religious individual, is a humble person. The truth is the surrendering and humbling of the self breed pride and arrogance. The true believer is apt to see himself as one of the chosen... #EricHoffer — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 16, 2025

We grieve because we have loved. We grieve because the person we have lost mattered to us. To say that grief should disappear on a neat timetable is an insult to the love we felt. #JohannHari

We grieve because we have loved. We grieve because the person we have lost mattered to us. To say that grief should disappear on a neat timetable is an insult to the love we felt. #JohannHari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 16, 2025

It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. #RalphWaldoEmerson

It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. #RalphWaldoEmerson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 15, 2025

[We don't have think we are] awful because we did a genuinely very stupid and pretty nasty thing. The evolutionary story gives a more helpful explanation [...] your modern brain is not as strong as it needs to be--and your reptilian brain is far too strong. #TheSchoolOfLife

[We don't have think we are] awful because we did a genuinely very stupid and pretty nasty thing. The evolutionary story gives a more helpful explanation [...] your modern brain is not as strong as it needs to be--and your reptilian brain is far too strong. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 15, 2025

Attachments bring pain, but they also bring our greatest joys #JonathanHaidt

Attachments bring pain, but they also bring our greatest joys #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 15, 2025

Through money, democracy becomes its own destroyer, after money has destroyed intellect. #OswaldSpengler

Through money, democracy becomes its own destroyer, after money has destroyed intellect. #OswaldSpengler — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 15, 2025

The next time you open your browser, you can be sure that the colors. images, text, perhaps even the prices you see--and certainly the ads--have come from an explore/exploit algorithm, tuning itself to your clicks. #BrianChristian

The next time you open your browser, you can be sure that the colors. images, text, perhaps even the prices you see--and certainly the ads--have come from an explore/exploit algorithm, tuning itself to your clicks. #BrianChristian — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 15, 2025

Woman who spends six months backpacking across Asia sends a powerful message about her curiosity, open-mindedness, and even courage. Similar (if weaker) signals can be bought for less time and money simply by eating strange foods, watching foreign films, and reading #KevinSimler

Woman who spends six months backpacking across Asia sends a powerful message about her curiosity, open-mindedness, and even courage. Similar (if weaker) signals can be bought for less time and money simply by eating strange foods, watching foreign films, and reading #KevinSimler — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 15, 2025

Man's first language, the most universal, the most energetic and the only language he needed before it was necessary to persuade men assembled together, is the cry of nature. #JeanJacquesRousseau

Man's first language, the most universal, the most energetic and the only language he needed before it was necessary to persuade men assembled together, is the cry of nature. #JeanJacquesRousseau — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 14, 2025

...leadership on virtue can never come from the major political actors; it will have to come from a movement of people, such as the people of a town who come together and agree to create moral coherence across the many areas of children's lives. #JonathanHaidt

...leadership on virtue can never come from the major political actors; it will have to come from a movement of people, such as the people of a town who come together and agree to create moral coherence across the many areas of children's lives. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 14, 2025

In the long run, many countries will slowly begin to find nuclear energy more attractive. The shale revolution may have pushed this further down the road, but the share of nuclear energy in the world's total power output is likely to grow. #LeeKuanYew

In the long run, many countries will slowly begin to find nuclear energy more attractive. The shale revolution may have pushed this further down the road, but the share of nuclear energy in the world's total power output is likely to grow. #LeeKuanYew — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 14, 2025

For even the mass movement of millions of people into Europe would not sound such a final note for the continent were it not for the fact that (coincidentally or otherwise) at the same time Europe lost faith in its beliefs, traditions and legitimacy. #DouglasMurray

For even the mass movement of millions of people into Europe would not sound such a final note for the continent were it not for the fact that (coincidentally or otherwise) at the same time Europe lost faith in its beliefs, traditions and legitimacy. #DouglasMurray — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 14, 2025

Children are coached on how to jump through a thousand scholastic hoops. Yet by far the most important decisions they will make are about whom to marry and whom to befriend, what to love and what to despise, and how to control impulses. #DavidBrooks

Children are coached on how to jump through a thousand scholastic hoops. Yet by far the most important decisions they will make are about whom to marry and whom to befriend, what to love and what to despise, and how to control impulses. #DavidBrooks — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 14, 2025

Marriage was too vital an economic and political institution to be entered into solely on the basis of something as irrational as love, writes Coontz. #AzizAnsari

Marriage was too vital an economic and political institution to be entered into solely on the basis of something as irrational as love, writes Coontz. #AzizAnsari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 13, 2025

Indeed, [for the introverted] your biggest challenge may be to fully harness your strengths. You may be so busy trying to appear like a zestful, reward-sensitive extrovert that you undervalue your own talents, or feel underestimated by those around you. #SusanCain

Indeed, [for the introverted] your biggest challenge may be to fully harness your strengths. You may be so busy trying to appear like a zestful, reward-sensitive extrovert that you undervalue your own talents, or feel underestimated by those around you. #SusanCain — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 13, 2025

Free will is an illusion. Our wills are simply not of our own making. #SamHarris

Free will is an illusion. Our wills are simply not of our own making. #SamHarris — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 13, 2025

Biology enables, Culture forbids. #YuvalNoahHarari

Biology enables, Culture forbids. #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 13, 2025

Russia will never be really civilized, because it was civilized too soon. Peter [the Great] has a genius for imitation; but he lacked true genius, which is creative and makes all from nothing. #JeanJacquesRousseau

Russia will never be really civilized, because it was civilized too soon. Peter [the Great] has a genius for imitation; but he lacked true genius, which is creative and makes all from nothing. #JeanJacquesRousseau — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 13, 2025

Very young children love and demand stories, and can understand complex matters presented as stories, when their powers of comprehending general concepts, paradigms, are almost nonexistent. #OliverSacks

Very young children love and demand stories, and can understand complex matters presented as stories, when their powers of comprehending general concepts, paradigms, are almost nonexistent. #OliverSacks — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 13, 2025

The stock that is laid out in a house, if it is to be the dwelling-house of the proprietor, ceases from that moment to serve in the function of a capital, or to afford any revenue to its owner. #AdamSmith

The stock that is laid out in a house, if it is to be the dwelling-house of the proprietor, ceases from that moment to serve in the function of a capital, or to afford any revenue to its owner. #AdamSmith — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 12, 2025

It is with acts of attention that we decide who to hear, who to see, and who in our world has agency. In this way, attention forms the ground not just for love, but for ethics. #JennyOdell

It is with acts of attention that we decide who to hear, who to see, and who in our world has agency. In this way, attention forms the ground not just for love, but for ethics. #JennyOdell — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 12, 2025

Typically, these are crimes of intent. If you just happen to be friendly with someone else's spouse, no big deal. But if you're friendly with romantic or sexual intentions, that's inappropriate. #RobinHanson

Typically, these are crimes of intent. If you just happen to be friendly with someone else's spouse, no big deal. But if you're friendly with romantic or sexual intentions, that's inappropriate. #RobinHanson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 12, 2025

Love really does have universal power, but that it is simply the opportunity we are given to enjoy a positive, creative, affirmative experience of difference. The Other, no doubt, but without the Almighty-Other, without the Great Other of transcendence. #AlainBadiou

Love really does have universal power, but that it is simply the opportunity we are given to enjoy a positive, creative, affirmative experience of difference. The Other, no doubt, but without the Almighty-Other, without the Great Other of transcendence. #AlainBadiou — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 12, 2025

What would baby chimpanzees look like if they were shaved? #TheSchoolOfLife

What would baby chimpanzees look like if they were shaved? #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 12, 2025

Also, reading so widely helped to relativize my point of view, and I think that was very significant for me back when I was a teenager. I experienced all the emotions depicted in books almost as if they were my own #HarukiMurakami

Also, reading so widely helped to relativize my point of view, and I think that was very significant for me back when I was a teenager. I experienced all the emotions depicted in books almost as if they were my own #HarukiMurakami — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 12, 2025

I have never met a woman, or man, who stated emphatically, Yes, I have it all. Because no matter what any of us has--and how grateful we are for what we have--no one has it all. #SherylSandberg

I have never met a woman, or man, who stated emphatically, Yes, I have it all. Because no matter what any of us has--and how grateful we are for what we have--no one has it all. #SherylSandberg — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 11, 2025

Where there's humility there is majesty; where there's weakness, there's might; where there is death, there's life. If you want to get these things don't disdain those. #Augustine

Where there's humility there is majesty; where there's weakness, there's might; where there is death, there's life. If you want to get these things don't disdain those. #Augustine — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 11, 2025

By enmeshing ourselves tightly with other humans, we not only cut ourselves off from fresh air, we deny ourselves the experience of 'otherness', of creatures who can put our own melodramas into perspective via their haughty disregard for our existence #TheSchoolOfLife

By enmeshing ourselves tightly with other humans, we not only cut ourselves off from fresh air, we deny ourselves the experience of 'otherness', of creatures who can put our own melodramas into perspective via their haughty disregard for our existence #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 11, 2025

If the value of the services rendered exceeds the pay, then both consumers and stockholders are better off, not worse off, whether the person hired is a corporate CEO or a production line employee. #ThomasSowell

If the value of the services rendered exceeds the pay, then both consumers and stockholders are better off, not worse off, whether the person hired is a corporate CEO or a production line employee. #ThomasSowell — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 11, 2025

The first half of doing nothing is about disengaging from the attention economy; the other half is about reengaging with something else... something else is nothing less than time and space, a possibility only once we meet each other there on the level of attention #JennyOdell

The first half of doing nothing is about disengaging from the attention economy; the other half is about reengaging with something else... something else is nothing less than time and space, a possibility only once we meet each other there on the level of attention #JennyOdell — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 11, 2025

Both [charity and conspicuous consumption] are great ways to show off surplus wealth, but consumption is largely selfish, whereas charity is the opposite. #KevinSimler

Both [charity and conspicuous consumption] are great ways to show off surplus wealth, but consumption is largely selfish, whereas charity is the opposite. #KevinSimler — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 10, 2025

[Each of us believes] that the facts as we see them are there for all to see, therefore others should agree with us. If they don't agree, it follows either that they have not yet been exposed to the relevant facts or else that they are blinded by their interests... #JonathanHaidt

[Each of us believes] that the facts as we see them are there for all to see, therefore others should agree with us. If they don't agree, it follows either that they have not yet been exposed to the relevant facts or else that they are blinded by their interests... #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 10, 2025

[There're moments] when you feel the presence of the eternal harmony... a terrible thing is the frightful clearness with which it manifests itself and the rapture with which it fills you. If this state were to last more than five seconds, the soul could not endure it #OliverSacks

[There're moments] when you feel the presence of the eternal harmony... a terrible thing is the frightful clearness with which it manifests itself and the rapture with which it fills you. If this state were to last more than five seconds, the soul could not endure it #OliverSacks — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 10, 2025

But unlike Machiavelli, Confucius was concerned more with the cultivation of social harmony than with the machinations of power. His themes were the principles of compassionate rule, the performance of correct rituals, and the inculcation of filial piety. #HenryKissinger

But unlike Machiavelli, Confucius was concerned more with the cultivation of social harmony than with the machinations of power. His themes were the principles of compassionate rule, the performance of correct rituals, and the inculcation of filial piety. #HenryKissinger — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 10, 2025

But the fact is that we care a lot about what others think of us. The only people known to have no sociometer are psychopaths. #JonathanHaidt

But the fact is that we care a lot about what others think of us. The only people known to have no sociometer are psychopaths. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 10, 2025

I value bioregionalism for the even more basic reason that, just as attention may be the last resource we have to withhold, the physical world is our last common reference point. #JennyOdell

I value bioregionalism for the even more basic reason that, just as attention may be the last resource we have to withhold, the physical world is our last common reference point. #JennyOdell — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 10, 2025

We are suddenly showing unprecedented interest in the fate of so-called lower life forms, perhaps because we are about to become one. #YuvalNoahHarari

We are suddenly showing unprecedented interest in the fate of so-called lower life forms, perhaps because we are about to become one. #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 9, 2025

Morality is not a set of freestanding abstract truths we can somehow access with our limited human mind. Moral psychology is not something that occasionally intrudes into the abstract realm of moral philosophy. Moral philosophy is a manifestation of moral psychology #JoshuaGreene

Morality is not a set of freestanding abstract truths we can somehow access with our limited human mind. Moral psychology is not something that occasionally intrudes into the abstract realm of moral philosophy. Moral philosophy is a manifestation of moral psychology #JoshuaGreene — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 9, 2025

I'd like to submit to Bad Science my teacher who gave us a handout which says that 'Water is best absorbed by the body when provided in frequent small amounts.' What I want to know is this. If I drink too much in one go, will it leak out off my arsehole instead? #BenGoldacre

I'd like to submit to Bad Science my teacher who gave us a handout which says that 'Water is best absorbed by the body when provided in frequent small amounts.' What I want to know is this. If I drink too much in one go, will it leak out off my arsehole instead? #BenGoldacre — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 9, 2025

The mandate is not to be perfect and raise happy children. Perfection doesn't exist, and I've found what makes children happy doesn't always prepare them to be courageous, engaged adults. #BreneBrown

The mandate is not to be perfect and raise happy children. Perfection doesn't exist, and I've found what makes children happy doesn't always prepare them to be courageous, engaged adults. #BreneBrown — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 9, 2025

In the minds of geniuses, we find--once more--our own neglected thoughts. #TheSchoolOfLife

In the minds of geniuses, we find--once more--our own neglected thoughts. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 9, 2025

Even if [...] this sort of life looks pointless or futile, or even extremely inefficient, it doesn't bother me. Maybe it's some pointless act like [...] pouring water in to an old pan that has a hole in the bottom, but at least the effort you put into it remains. #HarukiMurakami

Even if [...] this sort of life looks pointless or futile, or even extremely inefficient, it doesn't bother me. Maybe it's some pointless act like [...] pouring water in to an old pan that has a hole in the bottom, but at least the effort you put into it remains. #HarukiMurakami — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 8, 2025

You can't think decently if you're not willing to hurt yourself. #LudwigWittgenstein

You can't think decently if you're not willing to hurt yourself. #LudwigWittgenstein — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 8, 2025

Once we are used to being undressed around someone, the wonder they've allowed us into their lives is liable to get lost and taken for granted. We might end up watching TV naked after a shower, with no one caring to note how special our unclothed selves still are #TheSchoolOfLife

Once we are used to being undressed around someone, the wonder they've allowed us into their lives is liable to get lost and taken for granted. We might end up watching TV naked after a shower, with no one caring to note how special our unclothed selves still are #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 8, 2025

If you want to inculcate character in someone else, teach them how to form commitments--temporary ones in childhood, provisional ones in youth, permanent ones in adulthood. Commitments are the school for moral formation. #DavidBrooks

If you want to inculcate character in someone else, teach them how to form commitments--temporary ones in childhood, provisional ones in youth, permanent ones in adulthood. Commitments are the school for moral formation. #DavidBrooks — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 8, 2025

On the surface of our lives most of us build the hard shell. It is built to cover fear and insecurity and win approval and success. When you get down to the core of yourself, you find a different, more primeval country, and in it a deep yearning to care and connect. #DavidBrooks

On the surface of our lives most of us build the hard shell. It is built to cover fear and insecurity and win approval and success. When you get down to the core of yourself, you find a different, more primeval country, and in it a deep yearning to care and connect. #DavidBrooks — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 8, 2025

Scrolling through the feed, I can't help but wonder: What am I supposed to think of all this? How am I supposed to think of all this? I imagine different parts of my brain lighting up in a pattern that doesn't make sense, that forecloses any possible understanding. #JennyOdell

Scrolling through the feed, I can't help but wonder: What am I supposed to think of all this? How am I supposed to think of all this? I imagine different parts of my brain lighting up in a pattern that doesn't make sense, that forecloses any possible understanding. #JennyOdell — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 8, 2025

So little pains do the vulgar take in the investigation of truth, accepting readily the first story that comes to hand. #Thucydides

So little pains do the vulgar take in the investigation of truth, accepting readily the first story that comes to hand. #Thucydides — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 7, 2025

Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos--the trees, the clouds, everything. #ThichNhatHanh

Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos--the trees, the clouds, everything. #ThichNhatHanh — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 7, 2025

[On shift away from Tacit Knowledge] ... the Greek mind that gave us moral inquiry also gave us the beginnings of scientific inquiry. Science values parsimony, but virtue theories, with their long lists of virtues, were never parsimonious. #JonathanHaidt

[On shift away from Tacit Knowledge] ... the Greek mind that gave us moral inquiry also gave us the beginnings of scientific inquiry. Science values parsimony, but virtue theories, with their long lists of virtues, were never parsimonious. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 7, 2025

The genius of Peterson and Seligman's classification is to get the conversation going, to propose a specific list of strengths and virtues, and then let the scientific and therapeutic communities work out the details. #JonathanHaidt

The genius of Peterson and Seligman's classification is to get the conversation going, to propose a specific list of strengths and virtues, and then let the scientific and therapeutic communities work out the details. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 7, 2025

Every proud man, Augustine writes, heeds himself, and he who pleases himself seems great to himself. But he who pleases himself pleases a fool, for he himself is a fool when he is pleasing himself. #DavidBrooks

Every proud man, Augustine writes, heeds himself, and he who pleases himself seems great to himself. But he who pleases himself pleases a fool, for he himself is a fool when he is pleasing himself. #DavidBrooks — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 6, 2025

In the flow experience, elephant and rider are in perfect harmony. #JonathanHaidt

In the flow experience, elephant and rider are in perfect harmony. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 6, 2025

If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle. #SamuelJohnson

If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle. #SamuelJohnson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 6, 2025

Your beliefs can influence both you and the people around you. What you expect, you get. #VishenLakhiani

Your beliefs can influence both you and the people around you. What you expect, you get. #VishenLakhiani — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 6, 2025

Introverts, in contrast, may have strong social skills and enjoy parties and business meetings, but after a while wish they were home in their pajamas. They prefer to devote their social energies to close friends, colleagues, and family. #SusanCain

Introverts, in contrast, may have strong social skills and enjoy parties and business meetings, but after a while wish they were home in their pajamas. They prefer to devote their social energies to close friends, colleagues, and family. #SusanCain — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 6, 2025

It is better to do nothing than to contribute to the invention of formal ways of rendering visible that which Empire already recognizes as existent. #AlainBadiou

It is better to do nothing than to contribute to the invention of formal ways of rendering visible that which Empire already recognizes as existent. #AlainBadiou — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 6, 2025

[In a series of children experiments,] five-year-old children prefer to be friends with children who lack foreign accents. It seems that human brains, even before they can generate speech, use language to distinguish trustworthy Us from untrustworthy Them. #JoshuaGreene

[In a series of children experiments,] five-year-old children prefer to be friends with children who lack foreign accents. It seems that human brains, even before they can generate speech, use language to distinguish trustworthy Us from untrustworthy Them. #JoshuaGreene — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 5, 2025

Occasionally, even today, you come across certain people who seem to possess an impressive inner cohesion. They are not leading fragmented, scattershot lives. They have achieved inner integration. They are calm, settled, and rooted. #DavidBrooks

Occasionally, even today, you come across certain people who seem to possess an impressive inner cohesion. They are not leading fragmented, scattershot lives. They have achieved inner integration. They are calm, settled, and rooted. #DavidBrooks — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 5, 2025

The replacement of horses by automobiles made it possible to restore more than 80 million acres of forestlands that had once been cleared for horse pasture. #ThomasSowell

The replacement of horses by automobiles made it possible to restore more than 80 million acres of forestlands that had once been cleared for horse pasture. #ThomasSowell — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 5, 2025

It is a grim paradox that the worst deeds that humans have ever been guilty of have been carried out by people with an easy conscience, people who felt they were definitely on the side of angels. #TheSchoolOfLife

It is a grim paradox that the worst deeds that humans have ever been guilty of have been carried out by people with an easy conscience, people who felt they were definitely on the side of angels. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 5, 2025

[Our reluctance to engage in moral and spiritual argument, together with our embrace of markets] has drained public discourse of moral and civic energy, and contributed to the technocratic, managerial politics that afflicts many societies today. #MichaelSandel

[Our reluctance to engage in moral and spiritual argument, together with our embrace of markets] has drained public discourse of moral and civic energy, and contributed to the technocratic, managerial politics that afflicts many societies today. #MichaelSandel — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 5, 2025

[Unshackle ourselves and aspire instead:] we could retire to connect more deeply with our own minds, to develop our creative potential, to keep a handle on anxiety or to explore who we could be if we stopped caring so much about what other people thought of us. #TheSchoolOfLife

[Unshackle ourselves and aspire instead:] we could retire to connect more deeply with our own minds, to develop our creative potential, to keep a handle on anxiety or to explore who we could be if we stopped caring so much about what other people thought of us. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 4, 2025

Society teaches what sex is, how to have sex, how much sex to have, how to feel about that sex, and what a good sex life is. It provides sexual scripts and rules to follow. Sex advice books, which frequently push the narrative of sex as a primal act, socialize us too. #AngelaChen

Society teaches what sex is, how to have sex, how much sex to have, how to feel about that sex, and what a good sex life is. It provides sexual scripts and rules to follow. Sex advice books, which frequently push the narrative of sex as a primal act, socialize us too. #AngelaChen — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 4, 2025

Your job is to figure certain things out: What does this environment need in order to be made whole? What is it that needs repair? What tasks are lying around waiting to be performed? [...] At what points do my talents and deep gladness meet the world's deep need? #DavidBrooks

Your job is to figure certain things out: What does this environment need in order to be made whole? What is it that needs repair? What tasks are lying around waiting to be performed? [...] At what points do my talents and deep gladness meet the world's deep need? #DavidBrooks — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 4, 2025

Being in love is not the foundation for a happy marriage. #GaryChapman

Being in love is not the foundation for a happy marriage. #GaryChapman — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 4, 2025

...as a solution to inequality and the plight of workers who lost out in the decades of globalization, the single-minded focus on education had a damaging side effect: eroding the social esteem accorded those who had not gone to college. #MichaelSandel

...as a solution to inequality and the plight of workers who lost out in the decades of globalization, the single-minded focus on education had a damaging side effect: eroding the social esteem accorded those who had not gone to college. #MichaelSandel — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 4, 2025

The day you find yourself sitting on your feedback because you're worried you'll be unpopular is the day you'll need to leave Netflix. We hire you for your opinions. Every person in that room is responsible for telling me frankly what they think. #ErinMeyer

The day you find yourself sitting on your feedback because you're worried you'll be unpopular is the day you'll need to leave Netflix. We hire you for your opinions. Every person in that room is responsible for telling me frankly what they think. #ErinMeyer — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 4, 2025

We all need people to tell us when we are wrong, to advise us on how to do right, and to encourage, support, arouse, cooperate, and inspire us along the way. #DavidBrooks

We all need people to tell us when we are wrong, to advise us on how to do right, and to encourage, support, arouse, cooperate, and inspire us along the way. #DavidBrooks — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 3, 2025

In America, Chinese students who were accustomed to a collective life and the care of their institutions turned to other groups to satisfy the need to belong. #QianNing

In America, Chinese students who were accustomed to a collective life and the care of their institutions turned to other groups to satisfy the need to belong. #QianNing — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 3, 2025

But I am trying to understand the mutual incomprehension of the two sides in the culture war, and I believe that Shweder's three ethics--particularly the ethic of divinity--are the key to it. #JonathanHaidt

But I am trying to understand the mutual incomprehension of the two sides in the culture war, and I believe that Shweder's three ethics--particularly the ethic of divinity--are the key to it. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 3, 2025

It is useless to you only because you want to make it into something else and do not use it in its proper way. #BenjaminHoff

It is useless to you only because you want to make it into something else and do not use it in its proper way. #BenjaminHoff — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 3, 2025

Every ideal is a judge, after all: the judge who says, 'You are not manifesting your true potential.' No ideals? No judge. But the price paid for that is purposelessness. This is a high price. #JordanPeterson

Every ideal is a judge, after all: the judge who says, 'You are not manifesting your true potential.' No ideals? No judge. But the price paid for that is purposelessness. This is a high price. #JordanPeterson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 2, 2025

Christianity opens up vital space in our imaginations by making a distinction between two kinds of poverty: what it terms voluntary poverty on the one hand and involuntary poverty on the other. #TheSchoolOfLife

Christianity opens up vital space in our imaginations by making a distinction between two kinds of poverty: what it terms voluntary poverty on the one hand and involuntary poverty on the other. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 2, 2025

He continually finds that his feelings are hurt. He is perpetually putting up a front. The self-cultivator spends more energy trying to display the fact that he is happy--posting highlight reel Facebook photos and all the rest--than he does actually being happy. #DavidBrooks

He continually finds that his feelings are hurt. He is perpetually putting up a front. The self-cultivator spends more energy trying to display the fact that he is happy--posting highlight reel Facebook photos and all the rest--than he does actually being happy. #DavidBrooks — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 2, 2025

How do you cause people to believe in an imagined order such as Christianity, democracy or capitalism? First, you never admit that the order is imagined. #YuvalNoahHarari

How do you cause people to believe in an imagined order such as Christianity, democracy or capitalism? First, you never admit that the order is imagined. #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 2, 2025

It is relatively easy to accept that money is an intersubjective reality [& ancient Greek gods exist in imagination]. Yet we don't want to accept that our God, our nation or our values are mere fictions, because these are the things that give meaning to our lives #YuvalNoahHarari

It is relatively easy to accept that money is an intersubjective reality [& ancient Greek gods exist in imagination]. Yet we don't want to accept that our God, our nation or our values are mere fictions, because these are the things that give meaning to our lives #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 2, 2025

The idea that large historical events are determined by luck is profoundly shocking, although it is demonstrably true. #DanielKahneman

The idea that large historical events are determined by luck is profoundly shocking, although it is demonstrably true. #DanielKahneman — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 2, 2025

We can be inspired by leaders we've never met and devoted to organizations with no fixed membership, such as nations, churches, corporations, and schools. #JoshuaGreene

We can be inspired by leaders we've never met and devoted to organizations with no fixed membership, such as nations, churches, corporations, and schools. #JoshuaGreene — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 1, 2025

Those who believe Europe is for the world have never explained why this process should be one way: why Europeans going anywhere else in the world is colonialism whereas the rest of the world coming to Europe is just and fair. #DouglasMurray

Those who believe Europe is for the world have never explained why this process should be one way: why Europeans going anywhere else in the world is colonialism whereas the rest of the world coming to Europe is just and fair. #DouglasMurray — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 1, 2025

We constantly search for that elusive holy grail quaintly described by magazines as 'work/life balance'. But anyone who sincerely believes that such an equilibrium might be possible has not begun to understand the logic of capitalism. #TheSchoolOfLife

We constantly search for that elusive holy grail quaintly described by magazines as 'work/life balance'. But anyone who sincerely believes that such an equilibrium might be possible has not begun to understand the logic of capitalism. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 1, 2025

Those who wounded us were not superior, impressive beings who knew our special weaknesses and justly targeted them. They were themselves highly frantic, damaged creatures trying their best to cope with the litany of private sorrows to which every life condemns us. #AlaindeBotton