People Quotes

The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.

Albert Einstein

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.

Robertson Davies, "A Voice from the Attic", 1960

The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way.

Henry David Thoreau

And that this country shall have a new birth of freedom, and that this government, of the people, for the people, by the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address

It is foolish to wish for beauty. Sensible people never either desire it for themselves or care about it in others. If the mind be but well cultivated, and the heart well disposed, no one ever cares for the exterior.

Anne Bronte, Agnes Grey

The best way not to have people in your way is to let them into your heart.

Alessandro Pronzato

A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices.

Edward R. Murrow

Generous people are rarely mentally ill.

Dr. Karl Menninge

Those who really deserve praise are the people who, while human enough to enjoy power, nevertheless pay more attention to justice than they are compelled to do by their situation.

Thucyclides

Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

People unfit for freedom - who cannot do much with it - Are hungry for power. The desire for freedom is an attribute of a have type of self. It says: leave me alone and I shall grow, learn, and realize my capacities. The desire for power is basically an attribute of a have not type of self.

Eric Hoffe

In Britain, the segregated world of public schools crops up in all kinds of institutions A boy can pass from Eton to the Guards to the Middle Temple to Parliament and still retain the same male world of leather armchairs, teak tables and nicknames. They need never deal closely with other kinds of people, and some never do.

Anthony Sampson

What people say behind your back is your standing in the community.

Edgar Watson Howe

There is incredible value in being of service to others. I think if most of the people in therapy offices were dragged out to put their finger in a dike, take up their place in a working line, they would be relieved of terrible burdens.

Elizabeth Berg

Old age equalizes - we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.

Jane Harrison

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

Johann von Goethe

We have achieved the most amazing things, a few million people opening up half a continent. But we have not yet found a Canadian soul except in time of war. On lack of national identity.

Lester Bowles Pearson

A hundred years for now? All new people.

Anne Lamott

The only people who seem to have nothing to do with the education of the children are the parents.

G. K. Chesterton

I think that the Communist Party as a political organization is of no danger to the United States. It has no following and has been disregarded by the American people for many, many years.

Robert F. Kennedy, "A Thousand Days, " by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. [1965]

Humility is the embarrassment you feel when you tell people how wonderful you are.

Laurence Pete

Never tell a man you can read him through and through; most people prefer to be thought enigmas.

Marchioness Townsend

Many people seem to think that opportunity means a chance to get money without earning it.

Author Unknown

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything - - Or nothing.

Nancy Asto

The only way most people recognize their limits is by trespassing on them.

Tom Morris

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.

Bokonon

Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness.

Rabbi Harold Kushne

Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort that I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought.

Alexander Hamilton

The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge, Speech in Washington, Jan. 17, 1925

When you tell the truth, people listen.

Jose Raul Bernardo, Silent Wing (Simon & Schuster, 1998)

What other people think about me is not my business.

Michael J. Fox, Lucky Man - A memoi

The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make.

Dan Quayle

Treat people as if they were what they should be, and you help them become what they are capable of becoming.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There is nothing more unequal, than the equal treatment of unequal people.

Thomas Jefferson

Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned, for we have spoken against the Lord, and against thee; pray unto the Lord, that he take away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people. Lesson of trust.

Numbers 21: 7, Holy Bible

My home is not a place, it is people.

Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991

As A general rule, people marry most hapily with their own kind. The trouble lies in the fact that people usually marry at an age where they do not really know what their own kind is.

Robertson Davies

I feel about airplaines the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.

Jean Ke