Goethe: "Treat people as if..."

"Treat people as if they were what they ought to be
and you help them to become what they are capable of being."

- Goethe

Ed Solomon: "A person is smart..."

"A person is smart. People are dumb. Everything they've ever "known" has been proven to be wrong. A thousand years ago everybody knew as a fact, that the earth was the center of the universe. Five hundred years ago, they knew it was flat. Fifteen minutes ago, you knew we humans were alone on it. Imagine what you'll know tomorrow."

—Ed Solomon, Kay in "Men in Black"

Deborah Reed: "People don't always have..."

"People don't always have good sense."

—Deborah Reed, Carry Yourself Back to Me (p208)

John Osborne: "Trouble is you get..."

"Trouble is you get used to people. Even their trivialities become indispensable to you. Indispensable, and a little mysterious."

—John Osborne, Look Back in Anger, Character of "Jimmy"