person quotes

7 quotes

The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a person.

Blaise Pascal

The 14th Amendment was recognized right away to be problematic. The concept of person was both too narrow and too broad, and the courts went to work to overcome both of those flaws.

Noam Chomsky

A person’s a person, no matter how small.

Dr. Seuss

Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is.

Thomas Carlyle

What I call my ‚self‘ now is hardly a person at all. It’s mainly a meeting place for various natural forces, desires, and fears, etcetera, some of which come from my ancestors, and some from my education, some perhaps from devils. The self you were really intended to be is something that lives not from nature but from God.

C. S. Lewis

An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.

Aldous Huxley