Quotes About People

... there is wisdom in madness and strong probability of truth in all accusations, for people are complete, and everyone is capable of everything.

The people must fight for their laws as for their walls.

Affery, like greater people, had always been right in her facts, and always wrong in the theories she deduced from them.

To me physical beauty is not the issue, vibrational beauty is and the most beautiful people I meet are those who are radiating the love and wisdom of the Divine force that breathes them.

How could a society escape destruction if, when political ties are relaxed, moral ties are not tightened, and what can be done with a people master of itself if it not subject to God?

The mind of the people is like mud, from which arises strange and beautiful things.

preach, my dear Sir, a crusade against ignorance; establish & improve the law for educating the common people.

If the good people in their wisdom shall see fit to keep me in the background, I have been too familiar with disappointments to bevery much chagrined.

I don't think of compassion as sympathy but rather as empathy. An understanding of how people are feeling, which often translates into action.

Wisdom is what separates average people from extraordinary people.

To give oneself ernestly to securing righteousness and justice among the people, and while respecting the gods and demons, to keep aloof from them, that may be called wisdom.

there rose this man Krishna, and in the Gita he tries to reconcile the ceremony and the philosophy of the priests and the people.

It is not the building, but the people that make a church, and that is what we always forget.

My interest in how people lived was nourished quite literally by the food I shared with them.

cuando se trata de talento: cuanto más ayude usted a las personas a ser mejores, más se ayudan ellas entre sí a ser mejores.

The truly terrible thing about the war spirit, about the fear and hate hysteria it generates, is that it forces us to think and talk and feel in terms of abstractions—those "communists" this time, those "fascists" last time. But those we are fighting and killing are people—men, women and children—not political, geographic or economic abstractions. They are, in the main, as decent and fearful and confused as we are. And they regard us as abstractions as much as we do them.

If the price is high, that doesn't mean that it isn't worth paying. We've the freedom of the universe, and it's a fascinating universe. You'll see much that's good, and you'll never be faced with boredom. And there are great satisfactions. If we can save the people of this world from slavery, for instance

If one were to include one-tenth of the remarkable people one knows, in one's fiction, no one would accept it. Real life remains one's private menagerie.

Dame Salome, with one of those flashes of worldly wisdom which at times emerge from very stupid well-meaning people

It is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.

And the wind shall say Here were decent godless people. Their only monument the asphalt road. And a thousand lost golf balls.

Most of the people in the world are poor, so if we knew the economics of being poor we would know much of the economics that really matters.

Greatness inspires greatness. Creativity inspires creativity. When you align yourself with people who inspire you and help draw out the best in you, you find your best self.

You can take the people out of the city, but you can't take the soul — that remains here.