Eye Quote by Johann Kaspar Lavater

Only the individual who has come to terms with his self can have a dispassionate attitude toward the world.

— Eric Hoffer

There will always be some people who think for themselves, even among the self-appointed guardians of the great mass who, after having thrown off…

— Immanuel Kant

“What I must do, is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The fact is that everyone is much too busily preoccupied with himself to be able to form a serious opinion about another person. The…

— Thomas Mann

Every one is well or ill at ease, according as he finds himself! not he whom the world believes, but he who believes himself…

— Michel de Montaigne

It is remarkable, that persons who speculate the most boldly often conform with the most perfect quietude to the external regulations of society. The…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

It is the man who is sure of himself who disregards the opinion of the world. To be sure is to have power.

— Patricia Wentworth

A respectable person is invariably unrespectable within.

— Anonymous

Anyone must be mainly ignorant or thoughtless, who is surprised at everything he sees; or wonderfully conceited who expects everything to conform to his…

— William Hazlitt

He who doesn't consider himself is seldom considerate of others.

— David Seabury

One should examine oneself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others.

— Moliere

All the great masters in the world have been saying only one thing down the centuries, "Have your own mind and have your own…

— Rajneesh