Every man Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is one mind common to all individual men

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

All men are really most attracted by the beauty of plain speech, and they even write in a florid style in imitation of this.…

— Henry David Thoreau

Philosophy would solidly be established, if men would more carefully distinguish those things that they know from those that they ignore.

— Robert Boyle

Men best show their character in trifles, where they are not on their guard. It is in the simplest habits, that we often see…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

The views of men can only be known, or guessed at, by their words or actions.

— George Washington

The understanding of some men is clear, that of others brilliant. The former illumines its surroundings; the latter obscures them.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

This very certain that each man carries in his eye the exact indication of his rank in the immense scale of men, and we…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I knew the mass of men conceal'd Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal'd They would by other men be met With blank indifference.

— Matthew Arnold

There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Whoever thinks that he alone has speech, or possesses speech or mind above others, when unfolded such men are seen to be empty.

— Sophocles

There is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

If a man really knew himself he would utterly despise the ignorant notions others might form on a subject in which he had such…

— George Santayana