Quotes about People
Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.
Very few people do anything creative after the age of thirty-five. The reason is that very few people do anything creative before the age of thirty-five.
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view - until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.
It's great when people appreciate your work, but I don't know how seriously to take it.
[You] could not help being amused every time another little human believed itself the center of its world, as each of us does.
It is a mistake, [...] to suppose that the public wants the environment protected or their lives saved and that they will be grateful to any idealist who will fight for such ends. What the public wants is their own individual comfort.
Young people often change their minds because they think they have all the time in the world.
Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labour; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.
Inanimate objects are harmless indeed [...]. But one cannot always say the same of the men who use them.