Best "People" Quotes - Carefully Curated by Real People (-:
Welcome to our curated collection of great quotes about "people" -- with free shareable picture quotes -- for you to ponder and be inspired by.
Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational.
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
I think time management as a label encourages people to view each 24-hour period as a slot in which they should pack as much as possible.
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
It is very hard to explain to people who have never known serious depression or anxiety the sheer continuous intensity of it. There is no off switch.
The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.
If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effective in helping them to become better than they are.
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
Longer Version/[Notes]:
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little. It is plain than an ignorant person thinks everything he does know important, and he tells it to everybody. But a well-educated man is not so ready to display his learning; he would have too much to say, and he sees that there is much more to be said, so he holds his peace.
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
Longer Version/[Notes]:
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest. It was a scandal that a breed of fearless and sinister people ran around freely, so they attached a nickname and a myth to these people to get even with them, to make up for the many times they had felt afraid.
Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.
We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.
Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.
Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
I believe that Gandhi was correct. Non-violent civil disobedience is the only way to bring about change that allows people to enjoy the change and not get killed in the process.
I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.
History is formed by the people, those who have power and those without power. Each one of us makes history.
I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays.
Longer Version/[Notes]:
I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. You can’t go anywhere without meeting clever people. The thing has become an absolute public nuisance. I wish to goodness we had a few fools left.
In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.
I discourage passive skepticism, which is the armchair variety where people sit back and criticize without ever subjecting their theories or themselves to real field testing.
All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.
Astronauts are like these mythic legends, but really, they are just regular people, people who wear chinos.
Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.

Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.
To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions.
There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
It is not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute.
People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.
Longer Version/[Notes]:
People with goals succeed because they know where they are going. It's as simple as that.
There are many people making a difference. I mean, Dr. King never held an office. Gandhi never held an office. There are people who are archetypes in our society who have never held office and made a difference.
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
