Acquaintance Quote by Anuj

A man known to us only as a celebrity in politics or in trade, gains largely in our esteem if we discover that he…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The world sees only the reflection of merit; therefore when you come to know a really great man intimately, you may as often find…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“He shows much more of Himself to some people than to others-not because He has favourites, but because it is impossible for Him to…

— C.S. Lewis

Rare almost as great poets, rarer, perhaps, than veritable saints and martyrs; are consummate men of business. A man, to be excellent in this…

— Arthur Helps

Every man is prompted by the love of himself to imagine that he possesses some qualities, superior, either in kind or degree, to those…

— Samuel Johnson

“The impression forces itself upon one that men measure by false standards, that everyone seeks power, success, riches for himself, and admires others who…

— Anonymous

“The man who is known, and has the confidence of the public, can, if he does not allow himself to be fooled by his…

— Booker T. Washington

A man's most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe.

— Anonymous

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself, and a mean man, by one lower than himself.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Whenever a man is known to seek promotion by intrigue, by temporizing, or by resorting to the haunts of vulgarity and vice for support,…

— Noah Webster

A man of genuine literary genius, since he possesses a temperament whose susceptibilities are of wider area than those of any other, is inevitably…

— James Branch Cabell

Though men of delicate taste be rare, they are easily to be distinguished in society by the soundness of their understanding, and the superiority…

— David Hume