People - Quotes and Proverbs

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A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

Douglas Adams

A delusion is something that people believe in despite a total lack of evidence.

Richard Dawkins

A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.

Thomas Jefferson

A generalist knows nothing about everything.
A specialist knows everything about nothing.
I know nothing about nothing.

Minkukel

Active people never have louse bites.

All people smile in the same language.

Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.

John Stuart Mill

Among the perquisites of freedom is the freedom of people to screw up their own lives.

Steven Pinker
Source: Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

An onion can make people cry but there's never been a vegetable that can make people laugh.

Will Rogers

And the LORD did what Moses asked: The flies left Pharaoh and his officials and his people; not a fly remained.

Bible
Source: Exodus 8:31

Angry people are not always wise.

Jane Austen
Source: Pride and Prejudice

Any curriculum will be pedagogically ineffective if it consists of a lecturer yammering in front of a blackboard, or a textbook that students highlight with a yellow marker. People understand concepts only when they are forced to think them through, to discuss them with others, and to use them to solve problems.

Steven Pinker
Source: Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

As people age, they confuse changes in themselves with changes in the world, and changes in the world with moral decline - the illusion of the good old days.

Steven Pinker

Assume you aren't "normal" and that other people aren't idiots.

Hans Rosling

Backpacking: An extended form of hiking in which people carry double the amount of gear they need for half the distance they planned to go in twice the time it should take.

(unknown author)

Before most people had ever tasted a potato, the Royal Society debated the practicality of making it a staple crop in Ireland (ironically, as a hedge against famine).

Bill Bryson
Source: Seeing further: the story of science & the Royal Society

Beware of people who dislike cats.

Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest.

Larry Lorenzoni

Bureaucracy is more people doing less things, and taking more time to do them worse.

Evan Esar

But on that day I will deal differently with the land of Goshen, where my people live; no swarms of flies will be there, so that you will know that I, the LORD, am in this land.

Bible
Source: Exodus 8:22

By 2029, computers will have emotional intelligence and be convincing as people.

Ray Kurzweil

Can there anywhere be a breed of people more irritating and imbecilic than disc jockeys?

Bill Bryson
Source: Lost Continent

Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.

George Bernard Shaw

Conscience keeps more people awake than coffee.

Democracy is a government of the people, by the people, for the people.

Abraham Lincoln

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

H.L. Mencken

Do you want zillions off your state taxes even at the risk of crippling education?
'Oh, yes!' the people cry.
Do you want TV that would make an imbecile weep?
'Yes, please!'
Shall we indulge ourselves with the greatest orgy of consumer spending that the world has ever known?
'Sounds neat! Let's go for it!'

Bill Bryson
Source: Lost Continent

Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.

Konrad Lorenz

Feminism is not just about women; it’s about letting all people lead fuller lives.

Jane Fonda

Goodbye cruel world
I'm leaving you today
Goodbye
Goodbye
Goodbye

Goodbye, all you people
There's nothing you can say
To make me change my mind
Goodbye

Pink Floyd
Source: Lyrics: Goodbye Cruel World

Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them.

Walter Kerr

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

Robert Frost

Hammers, axes, swords, daggers, pickaxes, tongs, and also instruments of torture, they make very well, or get other people to make to their design, prisoners and slaves that have to work till they die for want of air and light.

J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Hobbit - Chapter 4 - Over Hill and Under Hill

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

Ernest Hemingway

He that withholdeth corn, the people shall curse him: but blessing shall be upon the head of him that selleth it.

Hell is other people.

Jean-Paul Sartre

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.

George Santayana

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Hobbies of any kind are boring except to people who have the same hobby. This is also true of religion, although you will not find me saying so in print.

Dave Barry

Honest people don't hide their deeds.

Emily Brontë
Source: Wuthering Heights

I am for people. I can't help it.

Charlie Chaplin

I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.

Jane Austen
Source: Letter to Cassandra (1798-12-24) - Letters of Jane Austen

I don't mind if other people call me an atheist, but I call myself a naturalist. Atheism doesn't tell you much about what I do believe in; the term naturalist opens up the discussion better.

Greg Graffin

I have a zero tolerance for sanctimonious morons who try to scare people.

Pat Robertson

I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.

Mark Twain

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.

Stephen Hawking

I hope I have helped to raise the profile of science and to show that physics is not a mystery but can be understood by ordinary people.

Stephen Hawking

I owe my solitude to other people.

Alan Watts

I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

Stephen Hawking

I reprimand people, even those working with me, for littering the roads.

Amisha Patel

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