The “sociable” man, always outside himself, is capable of living only in the opinions of others and, so to speak, derives the sentiment of his own existence solely from their judgment.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.
—Nikolai Gogol
Don’t think that your good attitude toward others is your gift to them. It’s a gift you give to yourself.
—Leo Tolstoy
Although it is easy to deceive one another and to be deceived by others, there is one thing we cannot do – we cannot deceive God.
—D. L. Moody
Many persons are misled by the favourable opinions entertained of them by others; many, it is to be feared, mistake a hot zeal for orthodoxy, for a cordial acceptance of the great truths of the gospel.
—William Wilberforce
There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun.
—Pablo Picasso
Man should not consider his material possessions as his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need.
—Thomas Aquinas
MAN is born free; and everywhere he is in chains. One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Worry more about your conscience than your reputation. Because your conscience is what you are, your reputation is what others think of you. And what others think of you is their problem.
—Charlie Chaplin
A good and wise person can be recognized by the fact that he considers others better and wiser than he is.
—Leo Tolstoy
The artist sees what others only catch a glimpse of.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.
—Plato
It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other.
—Plato
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have laboured hard for.
—Socrates
Would you have ever learned or discovered anything, if you had not been willing to learn from others?
—Socrates
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
—Socrates
Those who reason most powerfully and are the most successful at ordering their thoughts so as to make them clear and intelligible will always be best able to persuade others of what they say, even if they speak in the thickest of dialects.
It is enough that I can understand one thing, clearly and distinctly, without another in order to be certain that one thing is distinct from the other.
—René Descartes
Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never merely as a means to an end, but always at the same time as an end.
—Immanuel Kant
I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery.
—René Descartes
Let us ask that the stillness in which only His lights can shine may be ever around us, the stillness of the calm of His presence. And oh, let us ask that in this dark world we may so shine that others may see to read His love in the face of our loving Jesus.
—Amy Carmichael
Freely give means to give lavishly. What do I need today? Strength? Peace? Patience? Heavenly joy? Industry? Good temper? Power to help others? Inward contentment? Courage? Whatever it be, my God will lavish it upon me.
—Amy Carmichael
And in the one kind or the other, every follower of Christ will surely have need to take up his cross daily.
—John Wesley
He cannot, at one and the same time, follow his own will, and follow the will of God: He must choose the one or the other; denying God’s will, to follow his own; or denying himself, to follow the will of God.
—John Wesley
Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.
—Mark Twain
I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinion of himself than on the opinion of others.
—Marcus Aurelius
Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself.
—Marcus Aurelius
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.
—Cicero
God has made me willing to do any thing that I can do, consistent with truth, for the sake of peace, and that I might not be a stumbling-block to others.
—David Brainerd
To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after than to explain all things by conjecture without making sure of any thing.
—Isaac Newton