Knowledge-of-people Quote by Dennis Lehane

“This is when I learned that nice people sometimes felt they had to pretend to be mean and awful.”

— Matthew Quick

“The world is beautiful and glorious. Humanity can be mean, and turn away from what's good.”

— Dean Koontz

“Then tell them we've all got meanness in us...But tell them we have some good in us too. And the only thing worth living…

— Billie Letts

“It was a lesson the world had already taught me and was teaching me still. You don't know what's possible until you actually see…

— Amanda Lindhout

“We were taught to be good, and we were taught to be careful. But in this world, sometimes, I do not think we can…

— Marguerite Bennett

“For some people,being mean to others is the point of their lives.”

— Jacqueline Rayner

“And I'd learned, the hard way, that sometimes, even with the purest intentions, we make things worse when we do our best to make…

— Gregory David Roberts

“So learn one thing, that to expect is bad and that the world is not here to fulfill your expectations.”

— Osho

“Western arrogance of feeling that it has everything to teach others and nothing to learn from them is not just.”

— Martin Luther King Jr

“I asked her to teach me, too, but she said it was something you taught yourself by keeping your eyes and ears open, and…

— Victoria Holt

“We mutinied quietly, using every lesson we’d been taught by every person who’d ever used us for their own benefit.”

— Laura Wiess

“we were all destined to just keep doing the same stupid things, over and over again, never really learning a single thing.”

— Sarah Dessen