Most people can’t understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do.
Others Quotes
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.
In all societies, it is advisable to associate if possible with the highest; not that the highest are always the best, but because, if disgusted there, we can descend at any time; but if we begin with the lowest, to ascend is impossible.
The truth is, that no man is much regarded by the rest of the world. He that considers how little he dwells upon the condition of others will learn how little the attention of others is attracted by himself. While we see multitudes passing before us, of whom perhaps not one appears to deserve our […]
The price of seeking to force our beliefs on others is that someday they might force their beliefs on us.
