English Quotes

When we did the large focus group where we split the room by generation--kids on the left, parents on the right--a strange thing happened [...] the parents' side of the room was full of chatter [...] On the kids' side, everyone was buried in their phones #AzizAnsari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 7, 2025

Problem #1: Winners and losers have the same goals. #JamesClear

Problem #1: Winners and losers have the same goals. #JamesClear — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 6, 2025

[Self-care] is poised to be wrenched away from activists and turned into an excuse to buy an expensive bath oil. #GabrielleMoss

[Self-care] is poised to be wrenched away from activists and turned into an excuse to buy an expensive bath oil. #GabrielleMoss — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 6, 2025

You don't need a Bill of Rights to protect the rights of the majority in a democracy, because the vote already does that. #JonathanHaidt

You don't need a Bill of Rights to protect the rights of the majority in a democracy, because the vote already does that. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 6, 2025

In the global digital network, labor is transformed into small parcels of nervous energy picked up by the recombining machine... The workers are deprived of every individual consistency. Strictly speaking, the workers no longer exist. Their time exists... #FrancoBerardi

In the global digital network, labor is transformed into small parcels of nervous energy picked up by the recombining machine... The workers are deprived of every individual consistency. Strictly speaking, the workers no longer exist. Their time exists... #FrancoBerardi — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 6, 2025

[A good life needs to] know how to go along with the rules sufficiently well so as not to get mired in needless fights with authority; and simultaneously never to believe too blindly or too passively in the long-term validity of everything we're asked to study. #TheSchoolOfLife

[A good life needs to] know how to go along with the rules sufficiently well so as not to get mired in needless fights with authority; and simultaneously never to believe too blindly or too passively in the long-term validity of everything we're asked to study. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 6, 2025

The point is, our minds aren't as private as we like to imagine. Other people have partial visibility into what we're thinking. Faced with the translucency of our own minds, then, self-deception is often the most robust way to mislead others. #RobinHanson

The point is, our minds aren't as private as we like to imagine. Other people have partial visibility into what we're thinking. Faced with the translucency of our own minds, then, self-deception is often the most robust way to mislead others. #RobinHanson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 5, 2025

[The U.S.] will progressively reduce its forces and military installations on Taiwan as the tension in the area diminishes. #HenryKissinger

[The U.S.] will progressively reduce its forces and military installations on Taiwan as the tension in the area diminishes. #HenryKissinger — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 5, 2025

It is time to reject conventional wisdom and incrementalism. It is time to fundamentally rethink our adherence to the system of unfettered capitalism, and to address the unspeakable harm that system is doing to us all. #BernieSanders

It is time to reject conventional wisdom and incrementalism. It is time to fundamentally rethink our adherence to the system of unfettered capitalism, and to address the unspeakable harm that system is doing to us all. #BernieSanders — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 5, 2025

...any man who has known real loves, real revolts, real desires, and real will knows quite well that he has no need of any outside guarantee to be sure of his goals; their certitude comes from his own drive. #SimonedeBeauvoir

...any man who has known real loves, real revolts, real desires, and real will knows quite well that he has no need of any outside guarantee to be sure of his goals; their certitude comes from his own drive. #SimonedeBeauvoir — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 5, 2025

There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other. #EricHoffer

There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other. #EricHoffer — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 5, 2025

The cognitive sciences have replaced literature as the way many people attempt to understand their own minds. #DavidBrooks

The cognitive sciences have replaced literature as the way many people attempt to understand their own minds. #DavidBrooks — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 5, 2025

The paradoxes embedded into any situation do not allow for a clean and ultimate resolution. You expand liberty at the cost of encouraging license. You crack down on license at the cost of limiting liberty. There is no escaping this sort of trade-off. #DavidBrooks

The paradoxes embedded into any situation do not allow for a clean and ultimate resolution. You expand liberty at the cost of encouraging license. You crack down on license at the cost of limiting liberty. There is no escaping this sort of trade-off. #DavidBrooks — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 4, 2025

Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize? #MarcusAurelius

Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize? #MarcusAurelius — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 4, 2025

As technology accumulates and people in more parts of the planet become interdependent, the hatred between them tends to decrease, for the simple reason that you can't kill someone and trade with him too. #StevenPinker

As technology accumulates and people in more parts of the planet become interdependent, the hatred between them tends to decrease, for the simple reason that you can't kill someone and trade with him too. #StevenPinker — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 4, 2025

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. #Plato

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. #Plato — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 4, 2025

If we shift as we age toward appreciating everyday pleasures and relationships rather than toward achieving, having and getting, and if we find this more fulfilling, then why do we take so long to do it? Why do we wait until we're old? [...] lessons are hard to learn #AtulGawande

If we shift as we age toward appreciating everyday pleasures and relationships rather than toward achieving, having and getting, and if we find this more fulfilling, then why do we take so long to do it? Why do we wait until we're old? [...] lessons are hard to learn #AtulGawande — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 4, 2025

To discover the rules of society that are best suited to nations, there would need to exist a superior intelligence, who could understand the passions of men without feeling any of them, who had no affinity with our nature but knew it to the full... #JeanJacquesRousseau

To discover the rules of society that are best suited to nations, there would need to exist a superior intelligence, who could understand the passions of men without feeling any of them, who had no affinity with our nature but knew it to the full... #JeanJacquesRousseau — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 3, 2025

We should afford more regularly to exchange self-hatred for lawful and honourable expressions of annoyance. #TheSchoolOfLife

We should afford more regularly to exchange self-hatred for lawful and honourable expressions of annoyance. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 3, 2025

[Hume and Kant] helped to expose [racism's] fundamental flaws. For instance, Hume argued that morality is based on humans' natural attunement to one another's feelings and a discomfort at sensing others' discomfort that can be elevated into more impartial justice. #DouglasMurray

[Hume and Kant] helped to expose [racism's] fundamental flaws. For instance, Hume argued that morality is based on humans' natural attunement to one another's feelings and a discomfort at sensing others' discomfort that can be elevated into more impartial justice. #DouglasMurray — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 3, 2025

...we rely for our self-esteem and sense of comfort on the love of people we cannot control and whose needs and hopes will never align seamlessly with our own. #AlaindeBotton

...we rely for our self-esteem and sense of comfort on the love of people we cannot control and whose needs and hopes will never align seamlessly with our own. #AlaindeBotton — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 3, 2025

Much of what Freud believed to be biological, instinctual, and changeless has been shown by modern research to be a result of specific cultural causes. #BettyFriedan

Much of what Freud believed to be biological, instinctual, and changeless has been shown by modern research to be a result of specific cultural causes. #BettyFriedan — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 3, 2025

...the rich countries liberalized their trade only when their producers were ready, and usually only gradually even then. In other words, historically, trade liberalization has been the outcome rather than the cause of economic development. #HaJoonChang

...the rich countries liberalized their trade only when their producers were ready, and usually only gradually even then. In other words, historically, trade liberalization has been the outcome rather than the cause of economic development. #HaJoonChang — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 3, 2025

In the nineteenth century, the central moral challenge was slavery. In the twentieth century, it was the battle against totalitarianism. We believe that in this century the paramount moral challenge will be the struggle for gender equality around the world. #NicholasDKristof

In the nineteenth century, the central moral challenge was slavery. In the twentieth century, it was the battle against totalitarianism. We believe that in this century the paramount moral challenge will be the struggle for gender equality around the world. #NicholasDKristof — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 2, 2025

Don't think of introversion as something that needs to be cured. #SusanCain

Don't think of introversion as something that needs to be cured. #SusanCain — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 2, 2025

There's nothing special about race. You can make people care less about race by drowning race differences in a sea of similarities, shared goals, and mutual interdependencies. #JonathanHaidt

There's nothing special about race. You can make people care less about race by drowning race differences in a sea of similarities, shared goals, and mutual interdependencies. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 2, 2025

A 2011 study that boyd conducted with Alice E. Marwick found that Twitter users who had built the most successful personal brands did so by recognizing the fact that they no longer really knew who their audience was. #JennyOdell

A 2011 study that boyd conducted with Alice E. Marwick found that Twitter users who had built the most successful personal brands did so by recognizing the fact that they no longer really knew who their audience was. #JennyOdell — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 2, 2025

It's strange, isn't it?' the woman said in a pensive voice. 'Everything is blowing up around us, but there are still those who care about a broken lock, and others who are dutiful enough to try to fix it... But maybe that's the way it should be. #HarukiMurakami

It's strange, isn't it?' the woman said in a pensive voice. 'Everything is blowing up around us, but there are still those who care about a broken lock, and others who are dutiful enough to try to fix it... But maybe that's the way it should be. #HarukiMurakami — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 2, 2025

The challenge posed to humankind in the twenty-first century by infotech and biotech is arguably much bigger than the challenge posed in the previous era by steam engines, railways and electricity. #YuvalNoahHarari

The challenge posed to humankind in the twenty-first century by infotech and biotech is arguably much bigger than the challenge posed in the previous era by steam engines, railways and electricity. #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 1, 2025

I do not come in saying, 'I'm so sorry.' Instead, it's: 'I'm the hospice nurse, and here's what I have to offer you to make your life better. And I know we don't have a lot of time to waste. #AtulGawande

I do not come in saying, 'I'm so sorry.' Instead, it's: 'I'm the hospice nurse, and here's what I have to offer you to make your life better. And I know we don't have a lot of time to waste. #AtulGawande — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 1, 2025

I will repeat the following until I am hoarse: it is contagion that determines the fate of a theory in social science, not its validity. #NassimNicholasTaleb

I will repeat the following until I am hoarse: it is contagion that determines the fate of a theory in social science, not its validity. #NassimNicholasTaleb — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 1, 2025

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. #Plato