Quotes about People, page 69

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

Quote by Jean-Henri Casimir Fabre about people

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 people

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

Quote by Isaac Newton about 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 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 people

Humans: become atheists each and all! God will nevertheless welcome you with all his heart!

Quote by Giovanni Papini about people

There are two insults no human being will endure: that he has no sense of humor, and that he has never known trouble.

Quote by Sinclair Lewis about 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 people

Man is a bad animal.

Quote by Molière about people

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

Quote by Galileo Galilei about people

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

Quote by Charles Montesquieu about people

The less men think, the more they talk.

Quote by Charles Montesquieu about people

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

Quote by William Somerset Maugham about 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 people

The human race is the basis on which heaven is founded, is because man was last created, and that which is last created is the basis of all that precedes.

Quote by Emanuel Swedenborg about people

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

Quote by Pierre de Marivaux about people

Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative.

Quote by Alfred Adler about people

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

Quote by Thomas J. Watson about people

Only as an individual can man become a philosopher.

Quote by Karl Jaspers about people

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 people