Quotes about People
There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.
There are some people you like immediately, some whom you think you might learn to like in the fullness of time, and some that you simply want to push away from you with a sharp stick.
One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.
The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.
It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people.
Don`t be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you.
Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something and has lost something.
Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof [is] to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.
If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
[People] seek within the short span of life to satisfy a thousand desires; each of which alone is insatiable.