Acquaintance Quote by Thomas Carlyle

To every man in the world there is one person of whom he knows little: whom he would never recognize if he met him…

— Rebecca West

“no one worth knowing can be quite known, no one worth possessing can be quite possessed—but”

— William Landay

The real wealth or worth of a person is a candid and collective opinion of his closest companions ab..

— Ritu Ghatourey

Every one is least known to himself, and it is very difficult for a man to know himself.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

He that has never known adversity is but half acquainted with others, or with himself.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Spintharus, speaking in commendation of Epaminondas, says he scarce ever met with any man who knew more and spoke less.

— Plutarch

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, while he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There seems to be hardly any one among my acquaintance from whom I have not learned.

— C. S. Lewis

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere

— Anonymous

“acquaintance, n.: A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.”

— Ambrose Bierce

“He who has a thousand friends     has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy     shall meet him everywhere.”

— Warren W. Wiersbe

We may have many acquaintances, but we can have but few friends; this made Aristotle say that he that hath many friends hath none.

— Samuel Johnson