Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power.
Influence Quotes
I shall never have any real influence, because I have never killed anybody and don’t want to.
The influences that have lifted the race to a higher moral level are education, freedom, leisure, the humanizing tendency of a better-supplied and more interesting life. In a word, science and liberalism- the two forces, fundamentally skeptical, that we have seen continuously at work in human progress- have accomplished the very things for which religion […]
I am a part of all that I have met; Yet all experience is an arch wherethro’ Gleams that untravell’d world whose margin fades Forever and forever when I move. How dull it is to pause, to make an end.
It is not merely that Greece has a claim upon our attention because we are by our spiritual and mental inheritance partly Greek and cannot escape if we would that deep influence which worked with power through the centuries, teaching with light of reason and grace of beauty the wild Northern savages.
Do we move ourselves, or are moved by an unseen hand at a game that pushes us off from the board, and others ever succeed?
Be it true or false, what is said about men often has as much influence upon their lives, and especially upon their destinies, as what they do.
We perceive and are affected by changes too subtle to be described.
Do not be influenced by the importance of the writer, and whether his learning be great or small, but let the love of pure truth draw you to read. Do not inquire, “Who said this?” but pay attention to what is said.
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence in society.
