637 quotes found
“[Snobbishness] is the desire for what divides men and the inability to value what unites them.”
“We've all got our own brand of crazy.”
“Theres something about human nature which draws us to people who are authentic and makes us want to repel those that arent.”
“Never in your life have you been helplessunder somebodys heel. You never lived where your enemies held power over you, power to run your life or wipe it out. You cant understand. Thats how come you...”
“Pride, observed Mary, who piqued herself upon the solidity of her reflections, is a very common failing, I believe. By all that I have ever read, I am convinced that it is very common indeed; that ...”
“Humankind spends so much time admiring and ritualizing the inventions of humankind! And yet humankind is such a tiny part of all there is. -- Nigel S. Hey, Wonderment(Matador, 2012)”
“To believe that mans aggressiveness or territoriality is in the nature of the beast is to mistake some men for all men, contemporary society for all possible societies, and, by a remarkable transfo...”
“I think the need to believe in religion is and always was a need to know.Satisfying the NEED TO KNOW, be it by really knowing, by thinking we know or by believing we know, is very comforting for ma...”
“A lifetime isn't enough to know how a person will behave.”
“1887A lifetime isn't enough to know how a person will behave.”
“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
“The more one judges, the less one loves.”
“It seems that a profound, impartial, and absolutely just opinion of our fellow-creatures is utterly unknown. Either we are men, or we are women. Either we are cold, or we are sentimental. Either we...”
“No passion is stronger in the breast of a man than the desire to make others believe as he believes. Nothing so cuts at the root of his happiness and fills him with rage as the sense that another r...”
“Unfortunately for the good sense of mankind, the fact of their fallibility is far from carrying the weight in their practical judgement, which is always allowed to it in theory; for while every one...”
“Bizim hepimizin içinde zübüklük olmasa, bizler de birer zübük olmasak, aramızdan böyle zübükler büyüyemezdi. Hepimizde birer parça olan zübüklük birleşip işte başımıza böyle zübükler çıkıyor. Oysa ...”
“Humanity has many shortcomings, but none is stronger than pride.”
“After 40 years of marriage, isn’t it amazing when you can look at your partner sound asleep next to you and still believe they have potential.”
“Disappointed in his hope that I would give him the fictional equivalent of “One Hundred Ways of Cooking Eggs” or the “Carnet de la Ménagère,” he began to cross-examine me about my methods of “colle...”
