Person - Quotes
I think to be a well-rounded person, you have to experience good and bad, wonderful moments and pain. You need to meet people who have no exposure to kindness, who lack any opportunity and have no way out - like the homeless, the mentally ill - and you`ve got to learn empathy for them.
If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to the rest of his fellow men, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.
There`s always a moment when you start to fall out of love, whether it`s with a person or an idea or a cause, even if it`s one you only narrate to yourself years after the event: a tiny thing, a wrong word, a false note, which means that things can never be quite the same again.
If you build a person without any bones in him he may look fair enough to the eye, but he will be limber and cannot stand up; and I consider that evidence is the bones of an opinion.
Just as I had long suspected, a person didn`t really need math for anything anyway. Maybe some people did. Some limited people.
The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions.
If you want to stay in for the long haul, and lead a life that is free from illusions either propagated by you or embraced by you, then I suggest you learn to recognize and avoid the symptoms of the zealot and the person who knows he is right.
The less competent a person is in a given domain, the more he will tend to overestimate his abilities. This often produces an ugly marriage of confidence and ignorance that is very difficult to correct for.
Before we met, I was as lost as a person could be and yet you saw something in me that somehow gave me direction again.
If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person?
The only blind person at Christmastime is he who has not Christmas in his heart.
Traveling is all very well and good as long as you knew there is a place or person you can call home.
Every person is a book with thousands of pages and on each lies an irreparable truth.