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Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Albert Einstein

An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi

The vast majority of human beings dislike and even dread all notions with which they are not familiar. Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have always been derided as fools and madmen.
Aldous Huxley

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
Rudyard Kipling

All the people like us are We, and everyone else is They.
Rudyard Kipling

To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.
Leo Tolstoy

To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.
Stephen Hawking

Above all, be suspicious of your fatherland. Nobody is more inclined to become a murderer than a fatherland.
Friedrich Durrenmatt

If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.
Carl Jung

Great is the man who has not lost his childlike heart.
Mencius

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.
Confucius

The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort. The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.
Confucius

The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which they have obtained liberation from the self.
Albert Einstein

Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.
Blaise Pascal

Great things are done when men and mountains meet; This is not done by jostling in the street.
William Blake

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
Albert Einstein

... the fault is not in our stars but in ourselves.
William Shakespeare (in Julius Caesar)