Put an underdog on top and it makes no difference whether his name is Russian, Jewish, Negro, Management, Labor, Mormon, Baptist he goes haywire. I’ve found very, very few who remember their past condition when prosperity comes.
Others Quotes
Some of us learn from the mistakes of others; the rest of us have to be the others.
Learn to see in another’s calamity the ills which you should avoid.
Most people can’t understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do.
A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Difference between savage and civilized man: one is painted, the other gilded.
At sixteen, the adolescent knows about suffering because he himself has suffered, but he barely know that other being also suffer; seeing without feeling is not knowledge.
There is a seeking out of the best in others, of that which is most ultimate in them, and exposing oneself to it, to learn from it and be made over by it, which brings friendship very close to the mood of prayer.
I look at what I have and think myself unhappy; others look at what I have and think me happy.
Keep the other person’s well being in mind when you feel an attack of soul-purging truth coming on.
