People

You can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time.
– Abraham Lincoln

Destiny

Character is destiny.
– Heraclitus

Character

A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
– Jean Paul Richter

Bias

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.
– Winston Churchill

Sensibility

The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.
– George Bernard Shaw

Courage

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
– Winston Churchill

Good

He was such a good man that people hated to see him coming.
– Mark Twain

Reasonableness

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
– George Bernard Shaw

Truth

They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth.
– Plato

Slavery

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Travel

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.
– Mark Twain

Solitude

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
– Arthur Schopenhauer

Esteem

The average estimate themselves by what they do, the above average by what they are.
– Johann Friedrich von Schiller