“I can calculate the movement of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of men.”— Isaac Newton, amazon.com
“I’m just a human being trying to make it in a world that is very rapidly losing its understanding of being human.”— John Trudell, amazon.com
“I still believe in man in spite of man. I believe in language even though it has been wounded, deformed, and perverted by the enemies of mankind. And I continue to cling to words because it is up to us to transform them into instruments of comprehension rather than contempt. It is up to us to choose…”— Elie Wiesel, amazon.com
“Mankind needs peace more than ever, for our entire planet, threatened by nuclear war, is in danger of total destruction.”— Elie Wiesel, nobelprize.org
“Empathy is a special way of coming to know another and ourself, a kind of attuning and understanding. When empathy is extended, it satisfies our needs and wish for intimacy, it rescues us from our feelings of aloneness.”— Carl Rogers, stepbystepcounselling.co.uk
“Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.”— Bertrand Russell, amazon.com
“No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one’s life is nothing. Even the most evil of men and women, if you understand their hearts, had some generous act that redeems them, at least a little, from their sins.”— Orson Scott Card, amazon.com
“A new type of thinking is essential if mankind is to survive and move toward higher levels.”— Albert Einstein, amazon.com
“People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can’t be fixed.”— Rick Riordan, amazon.com
“On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.”— George Orwell, amazon.com
“People who are aware of, and ashamed of, their prejudices are well on the road to eliminating them.”— Gordon Allport, amazon.com
“Let no one think of me that I am humble or weak or passive; let them understand I am of a different kind: dangerous to my enemies, loyal to my friends.”— Euripides, amazon.com
“Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.”— Plato, goodreads.com
“I don’t understand a thing about this world: about people, and why they do the things they do. The more I find out, the more I uncover, the more I know, the less I understand.”— Craig Silvey, amazon.com
“Every man’s world picture is and always remains a construct of his mind and cannot be proved to have any other existence.”— Erwin Schrodinger, amazon.com
“Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.”— Bertrand Russell, amazon.com