We are a bit overpopulated. Here are some proverbs and quotes about people.
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The real war is not between the West and the East. The real war is between intelligent and stupid people.
Marjane SatrapiThe thing about smart people is that they seem like crazy people to dumb people.
Stephen HawkingThere are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.
Josh BillingsThere are more fools in the world than there are people.
Heinrich HeineThere are people that fish and those who just disturb the water.
There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
Leonardo da VinciThere is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.
Jane AustenSource: Northanger Abbey
This is the essence of the Agricultural Revolution: the ability to keep more people alive under worse conditions.
Yuval Noah HarariSource: Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity.
John MuirTime is what life is made of, and one metric of progress is a reduction in the time people must devote to keeping themselves alive at the expense of the other, more enjoyable things in life.
Steven PinkerSource: Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
To learn about other people is science, to learn to know yourself is intelligence.
Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat.
Ernest BevinWe are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.
Gerald BrenanWhat I'd really like to control is not machines, but people.
Stephen HawkingWhen it comes to mathematics, there are three kinds of people: those who can count and those who can't.
(unknown author)When planning for a year, plant maize. When planning for a decade, plant trees. When planning for life, train and educate people.
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
Oscar WildeWhile physics and mathematics may tell us how the universe began, they are not much use in predicting human behavior because there are far too many equations to solve. I'm no better than anyone else at understanding what makes people tick, particularly women.
Stephen HawkingWise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.
Michel de MontaigneWise people can’t answer the most foolish questions.
With 17 million residents and 23 million bicycles, the Netherlands already has more bikes than people. Now, it wants to get even more cyclists on the roads -- and will pay people to do it.
CNNWith or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
Steven WeinbergYou can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
Abraham LincolnYou can fool some people some times but you can't fool all the people all the time
Bob MarleyYou don't catch people's religions the way you catch their fleas.
Ken FollettSource: The Pillars of the Earth