• One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite.

  

  Jorge Luis Borges

  WriterArgentinian1899 · 19th century

  3.7 · 11 votes · 38 reads

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• People exercise an unconscious selection in being influenced.

  

  Susan Sontag

  AuthorAmerican1933 · 20th century

  3.6 · 15 votes · 71 reads

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• Some wisdom you must learn from one who's wise.

  

  Euripides

  PoetGreek-484 · 5th century BC

  4.6 · 42 votes · 102 reads

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• The best efforts of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.5 · 52 votes · 15 reads

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• The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher

  PoliticianAmerican1813 · 19th century

  5.0 · 45 votes · 12 reads

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• The influential man is the successful man, whether he be rich or poor.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

  AuthorAmerican1809 · 19th century

  4.4 · 39 votes · 129 reads

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• The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.

  

  Blaise Pascal

  PhilosopherFrench1623 · 17th century

  3.0 · 9 votes · 139 reads

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• The person who lives with cripples will soon learn to limp.

  

  Italian proverb

  Italian

  3.6 · 58 votes · 84 reads

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• The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.

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  Salman Rushdie

  NovelistIndian1947 · 20th century

  4.2 · 37 votes · 68 reads

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• The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity.

  

  Jean Paul

  ComedianGerman1763 · 18th century

  4.3 · 34 votes · 182 reads

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• We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us.

  

  John Locke

  PhilosopherEnglish1632 · 17th century

  3.8 · 9 votes · 12 reads

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• We live in a world which is full of misery and ignorance, and the plain duty of each and all of us is to try to make the little corner he can influence somewhat less miserable and somewhat less ignorant than it was before he entered it.

  

  Thomas Fuller

  AuthorBritish1608 · 17th century

  3.2 · 57 votes · 157 reads

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• We perceive and are affected by changes too subtle to be described.

  

  Henry David Thoreau

  PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

  4.8 · 50 votes · 171 reads

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• What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher

  PoliticianAmerican1813 · 19th century

  3.4 · 10 votes · 188 reads

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• What little Jack does not learn, big John will never.

  

  German proverb

  German

  3.0 · 28 votes · 55 reads

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• Who shall set a limit to the influence of a human being?

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.8 · 37 votes · 178 reads

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