Common Herd Quotes

11 quotes by 11 authors

To see victory only when it is within the ken of the common herd is not the acme of excellence. — Sun Tzu
Society is a republic. When an individual endeavors to lift himself above his fellows, he is dragged down by the mass, either by means of… — Heinrich Heine
I agree with you that it is important to examine our presuppositions, throughly and once for all, in order to establish something solid. For I… — Gottfried Leibniz
They have done their worst, and continued to deny me even the privileges accorded to the common herd . . . but I am sustained… — Michael Davitt
Ensor sees with his imagination, but his vision is perfectly accurate, of an almost geometric precision. He is one of the very few who can… — Jean Lorrain
Every man, however hopeless his pretensions may appear, has some project by which he hopes to rise to reputation; some art by which he imagines… — Samuel Johnson
There are innumerable instances suggesting that modern intellectuals do not believe themselves, that they don't really believe what they say, that they say certain things… — John Lukacs
...Hard people are weak people whom nobody wants, and the strong, caring little whether they are wanted or not, have alone that meekness which the… — Marcel Proust
Once a man strays out of the common herd, he's more likely to meet wolves in the thickets than angels. — Walter de La Mare
But who will dare to speak the truth out clear? The few who anything of truth have learned, And foolishly did not keep truth concealed,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the… — Wislawa Szymborska

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