Esteem Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man ranks lowest on the credibility index; if he refrains to appreciate the creative instinct of his acquaintances jealously, but likes the similar…

— Anuj

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

A man of the best parts and greatest learning, if he does not know the world by his own experience and observation, will be…

— Lord Chesterfield

He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

— George Bernard Shaw

A man of refined taste and judgment.

— Horace

Those same forces that drive a genius to create the things or ideas that entertain or enlighten us often gobble so much of his…

— Tom Robbins

A celebrity is one who is known by many people he is glad he doesn't know

— Henry Louis Mencken

He who expects from a great name in politics, in philosophy, in art, equal greatness in other things, is little versed in human nature.…

— William Hazlitt

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

it is usually in better taste to praise an isolated action or a production of genius, than a man's character as a whole.

— Elizabeth Wordsworth

A man who has trained himself in goodness come to have certain direct intuitions about character, about the relations between human beings, about his…

— Aldous Huxley

Goodness is always an asset. A man who is straight, friendly and useful may never be famous, but he is respected and liked by…

— Herbert Newton Casson