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We must not believe the many, who say that only free people ought to be educated, but we should rather believe the philosophers who say that only the educated are free.

– Epictetus

We must thank to all the failed people in the history as they showed us the true way to success!

– Mehmet Murat ildan

We pass the word around we ponder how the case is put by different people, we read the poetry we meditate over the literature we play the music we change our minds we reach an understanding. Society evolves this way, not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other.

– Lewis Thomas

We pass the word around; we ponder how the case is put by different people, we read the poetry; we meditate over the literature; we play the music; we change our minds; we reach an understanding. Society evolves this way, not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other.

– Lewis Thomas, The Medusa and the Snail (1979)

We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like. I have prepared one of my own. I have placed some rather large samples of dynamite, gunpowder, and nitroglycerin. My time capsule is set to go off in the year 3000. It will show them what we are really like.

– Alfred Hitchcock

We shall have to repent in this generation , not so much for the evil deeds of the wicked people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.

– Martin Luther King, Jr.

We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.

– Oscar Wilde

We think having faith means being convinced God exists in the same way we are convinced a chair exists. People who cannot be completely convinced of God's existence think faith is impossible for them. Not so. People who doubt can have great faith because faith is something you do, not something you think. In fact, the greater your doubt the more heroic your faith.

– Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, December 26, 2002

We think having faith means being convinced God exists in the same way we are convinced a chair exists. People who cannot be completely convinced of Gods existence think faith is impossible for them. Not so. People who doubt can have great faith because faith is something you do, not something you think. In fact, the greater your doubt the more heroic your faith.

– Real Live Preacher

We think so because other people all think so; or because after all, we do think so; or because we were told so, and think we must think so; or because we once thought so, and think we still think so; or because, having thought so, we think we will think so.

– Henry Sedgwick

We think very few people sensible, except those who are of our opinion.

– Francois De La Rochefoucauld

We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.

– Francois De La Rochefoucauld

We're a sentimental people. We like a few kind words better than millions of dollars given in a humiliating way.

– Gamal Abdel Nasser

We're actors - we're the opposite of people.

– Tom Stoppard

We're going to have the best-educated American people in the world.

– J Danforth Quayle

We're like the sea, people our waves Necessarily we are associated with everyone.

– Ni'matullah Wali

Weak people cannot be sincere.

– Le Rochefoucauld

Wealth and rank are what people desire, but unless they be obtained in the right way they may not be possessed.

– Confucius

What a pity that so many people rather believe their doubts And doubt their beliefs... Why don't we just decide to have no doubts, And believe your beliefs Fear and worry is just the mis-use of the creative powers We originally got to dream.

– Unknown

What are politicians going to tell people when the Constitution is gone and we still have a drug problem?

– William Simpson, A.C.L.U.

What children take from us, they give…We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.

– Sonia Taitz, O Magazine, May 2003

What I want to do is make people laugh so that they'll see things seriously.

– William Zinsser

What I'm concerned about is the people who don't dwell on the meaninglessness of their lives, or the meaningfulness of it-who just pursue mindless entertainment.

– Michael K. Hooker

What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little

– Stanislaus

What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.

– Leszezynski Stanislaus

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