
I think and think for months and years.
Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false.
The hundredth time I am right.
- Albert Einstein
When I examine myself and my methods of thought,
I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy
has meant more to me than
any talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
- Albert Einstein
A discussion of philosophy is like a cat chasing its tail -
it may be an amusing diversion but
it has no chance for a satisfying conclusion.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People do not like to think.
If one thinks, one must reach conclusions.
Conclusions are not always pleasant.
- Helen Keller
I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts
and grinding out conclusions.
- Charles Darwin
Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training,
for it trains people as to how they should think.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Life is like jumping out of an airplane without a parachute -
only the last couple seconds are fatal,
but most people are scared to death the whole way down.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt
towards people whom we personally dislike.
- Oscar Wilde
One good reason to only maintain a small circle of friends
is that three out of four murders
are committed by people who know the victim.
- George Carlin
Half the world is composed of idiots,
the other half, of people clever enough
to take indecent advantage of them.
- Walter Kerr
In critical moments men sometimes see
exactly what they wish to see.
- the character Spock of the television series Star Trek
The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.
- Mark Twain
Too bad all the people who know how to run this country
are busy running taxicabs or cutting hair.
- George Burns
I wanted to see exotic Vietnam, the jewel of Southeast Asia.
I, uh, I wanted to meet interesting
and stimulating people of an ancient culture,
and kill them.
- the movie Full Metal Jacket
Half the people you know are below average.
- Anonymous
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
- Albert Einstein
Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands?
And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry.
- John Lennon
We make our friends; we make our enemies;
but God makes our next-door neighbor.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
Some cause happiness wherever they go;
others whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde
I think you're the opposite of a paranoid.
I think you go around with the insane delusion that people like you.
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry
The Lord prefers common-looking people.
That is why he makes so many of them.
- Abraham Lincoln
Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
- Mark Twain
When two people decide to get a divorce,
it isn't a sign that they "don't understand" one another,
but a sign that they have, at last, begun to.
- Helen Rowland
The trouble with the world is not
that people know too little,
but that they know so many things that ain't so.
- Mark Twain
Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.
- Albert Schweitzer
Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.
- Lord Chesterfield
Most of what we call management consists of
making it difficult for people to get their work done.
- Peter F. Drucker
Gods always behave like the people who make them.
- Zora Neale Hurston
There are two kinds of people,
those who do the work,
and those who take the credit.
Try to be in the first group;
there is less competition there.
- Indira Gandhi
I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man,
and I hate people like that!
- Tom Lehrer
History is the version of past events
that people have decided to agree upon.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
Most people's historical perspective
begins with the day of their birth.
- Rush Limbaugh
I was wise enough to never grow up
while fooling most people into believing I had.
- Margaret Mead
Thinking is what most people resort to after all else fails.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is no use whatsoever trying to help
people who do not help themselves.
You cannot push anyone up a ladder
unless he is willing to climb himself.
- Andrew Carnegie
I love mankind, it's people I can't stand.
- Charles M. Schulz
Common looking people are the best in the world:
that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
- Abraham Lincoln
In religion and politics, people's belief's and convictions
are in almost every case gotten at second hand,
and without examination
- Mark Twain
Contrary to general belief,
I do not believe that friends are necessarily
the people you like best,
they are merely the people who got there first.
- Peter Ustinov
Interesting.
You Earth people glorify organized violence for 40 centuries,
but you imprison those who employ it privately.
- the character Spock in the television series Star Trek
"But I don't want to go among mad people," said Alice.
"Oh, you can't help that," said the cat. "We're all mad here."
- Lewis Carroll
Too many people spend money they haven't earned,
to buy things they don't want,
to impress people they don't like.
- Will Rogers
Join the army. Visit strange and exotic places.
Meet fascinating people. And kill them.
- Anonymous
People say conversation is a lost art;
how often I have wished it were.
- Edward R. Murrow
I only wish that ordinary people
had an unlimited capacity for doing harm;
then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
- Socrates
A common denominator of all religions is that
they have the power to bring out the best and the worst in people.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Oh, you weak, beautiful people
who give up with such grace.
What you need is someone to take hold of you -
gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.
- Tennessee Williams
Be smarter than other people, just don't tell them so.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
People who say it cannot be done should not
interrupt those who are doing it.
- George Bernard Shaw
Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money
they don't have for something they don't need.
- Will Rogers
Love is what makes two people
sit in the middle of a park bench
when there is plenty of room at both ends.
- Anonymous
Being a leader is like being a lady,
if you have to go around telling people you are one, you aren't.
- Margaret Thatcher
These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert,
to fleece the people.
- Abraham Lincoln
The whole problem with the world is that
fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves,
but wiser people so full of doubts.
- Bertrand Russell
I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out
in a war fought with the atomic bomb.
Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.
- Albert Einstein
You know your god is man-made when he
hates all the same people you do.
- Anonymous
People living their lives for you on TV;
They say they're better than you, and you agree.
- Jewel
Unless they share our opinions,
we seldom find people sensible.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Might I perhaps win my wings?
I've been waiting for over 200 years now, sir,
and people ARE beginning to talk.
- It's a Wonderful Life (1946 movie)
Smile, it makes people wonder what you are thinking.
- Anonymous
Always do the right thing.
It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
- Mark Twain
Most people with low self-esteem have earned it.
- George Carlin
People who are wrapped up in themselves make small packages.
- Benjamin Franklin
The trouble with having an open mind, of course,
is that people will insist on coming along
and trying to put things in it.
- Terry Pratchett
Religion is regarded by the common people as true,
by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White
The most important service rendered
by the press and the magazines
is that of educating people
to approach printed matter with distrust.
- Samuel Butler
Knowing your own darkness is the best method
for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
- Carl Jung
If you're going to tell people the truth,
be funny or they'll kill you.
- Billy Wilder
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people
by the people for the people.
- Oscar Wilde
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems,
but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
- Herm Albright
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