Conformity Quote by Henry David Thoreau

The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, in-as-much as he who knows nothing is nearer…

— Thomas Jefferson

A man who has to go to the village to get the news hasn't heard from himself in a long time.

— Henry David Thoreau

I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.

— Samuel Johnson

Constancy in a man is rare.

— Catherine Cookson

It is surely a matter of common observation that a man who knows no one thing intimately has no views worth hearing on things…

— Charles Horton Cooley

Gentlemen don't read each other's mail.

— Henry L. Stimson

There may be other reasons for a man's not speaking in publick than want of resolution: he may have nothing to say.

— Samuel Johnson

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

— Oscar Wilde

But a stranger in a strange land, he is no one. Men know him not, and to know not is to care not for.

— Bram Stoker

Reading someone else's newspaper is like sleeping with someone else's wife. Nothing seems to be precisely in the right place, and when you find…

— Malcolm Bradbury

Men prominent in life are mostly hard to converse with. They lack small-talk, and at the same time one doesn't like to confront them…

— Max Beerbohm

Men more frequently require to be reminded than informed.

— Samuel Johnson