We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself.
Others Quotes
Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even to the dull and ignorant; they too have their story. Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit. If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain and bitter, for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.
I love to lose myself in other men’s minds.
A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the measure as I have received and am still receiving.
We like to read others but we do not like to be read.
If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
To others we are not ourselves but performers in their lives cast for a part we do not even know we are playing.
It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.
A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
