“In most cases, people, even the most vicious, are much more naive and simple-minded than we assume them to be. And this is true of ourselves too.”
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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“Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.”
— Eric Hoffer
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“What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do.”
— John Ruskin
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“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.”
— Charles Dickens
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“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.”
— Simone Weil
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“An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.”
— James A. Michener
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“The more I think it over, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.”
— Vincent van Gogh
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“Love, work and knowledge are the well-springs of our life. They should also govern it.”
— Wilhelm Reich
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“The difference between the insane and the not-insane person is that the latter doesn't do or say the things he thinks.”
— Clarice Lispector
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“Education: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.”
— Ambrose Bierce
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“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”
— Carl Jung
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“The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man.”
— William Beveridge
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“The greatest lie ever told about love is that it sets you free.”
— Zadie Smith
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“To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.”
— Henri Poincaré
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“Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.”
— B. F. Skinner
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“To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.”
— Anatole France
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“Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.”
— Thomas Jefferson
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