Quotes about People
A man is made of many things
None of which can be seen at a glance
Even a rose can grow from concrete
If watered and given the chance
The best gifts of all find the fewest admirers, and that most men mistake the bad for the good, - a daily evil that nothing can prevent, like a plague which no remedy can cure. There is but one thing to be done, though how difficult! - the foolish must become wise, - and that they can never be. The value of life they never know; they see with the outer eye but never with the mind, and praise the trivial because the good is strange to them.
It`s human nature to want to fix what`s broken. We may not be able to replicate exactly what we lost. But in its place will grow something new. It`s a long process, but it happens. Slowly, but surely until we have what we need.
Where people are baffled, they are often tempted to resort to mystical explanations.
If your private life conflicts with your intellectual opinion, it cancels your intellectual ideas, not your private life.
some people can do bad things when they`re desperate or scared. [...] I`m not saying all people are good people or even that most people are, but if we help people, then maybe they`ll help people.
I`m interested in people`s darker side, the ones that aren`t easy and well balanced. The cracks.
The quality of one`s emotional life changes over the years [...], but the basic instincts and desires, greed and hope, seem to remain constant.
We only see two things in people: what we wanna see and what they wanna show us.
The nature of how we are as human beings is that we`re much more interested in being critical rather than praising something.
The rising sun can dispel the darkness of night, but it cannot banish the blackness of malice, hatred, bigotry, and selfishness from the hearts of humanity.