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We have within us, from the start, that which will distinguish us from the vulgar herd.

Quote by Jean-Henri Casimir Fabre about people, vulgarity

The common people have no history: persecuted by the present, they cannot think of preserving the memory of the past.

Quote by Jean-Henri Casimir Fabre about past, common sense, memory, present, history, people

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.

Quote by Isaac Newton about opinion, people

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.

Quote by Khalil Gibran about death, poets, people

As a teenager I was more of an anarchist, but now I want people to thrive and be harmonious.

Quote by Nicolas Cage about opinion, teenager, people

The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.

Quote by Thomas Hardy about olderness, end, value, age, old, people, man

Man is a bad animal.

Quote by Molière about people, bad luck, bad, man

You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him discover it in himself.

Quote by Galileo Galilei about people, help, contentment, man

To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.

Quote by Charles Montesquieu about opinion, people

The less men think, the more they talk.

Quote by Charles Montesquieu about people, man

You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.

Quote by William Somerset Maugham about humor, tolerance, contentment, people

We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.

Quote by William Somerset Maugham about time, people, chance, love, happiness

The worse enemy of a bad man is the one who is just like him.

Quote by Pierre de Marivaux about people, enemies, bad luck, bad, man

The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.

Quote by Thomas J. Watson about people, enthusiasm, man

Only as an individual can man become a philosopher.

Quote by Karl Jaspers about people, man

You can point out to people how to make what they do better, but you can't teach somebody how to be a great writer, just like you can't teach somebody how to be a fast runner. You can work on their technique, but either they're fast or they're...

Quote by Richard Price about literature, fasting, writers, contentment, work, people

The man when came into life, the Father conferred the seeds of all kinds and the germs of every way of life.

Quote by Giovanni Pico della Mirandola about people, life, man

Whatever seeds each man cultivates will grow to maturity and bear in him their own fruit. If they be vegetative, he will be like a plant.

Quote by Giovanni Pico della Mirandola about people, man

No art that is not in the end understood by the People can live or ever did live a single generation.

Quote by Frank Norris about art, magic, end, people

The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Quote by Frank Norris about people, rightness, liberty, happiness, truth, life