Famous Quotes

"If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you know already."

Johann Kaspar Lavater on Society

More quotes about Society

• "You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty."

  Mahatma Gandhi on Society

• "An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life."

  Robert A. Heinlein on Society

• "It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society."

  Jiddu Krishnamurti on Society

• "A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both."

  Dwight D. Eisenhower on Society

• "There is more to life than increasing its speed."

  Mahatma Gandhi on Society

More quotes by Johann Kaspar Lavater

• "Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers."

• "You may tell a man thou art a fiend, but not your nose wants blowing to him alone who can bear a thing of that kind, you may tell all."

• "I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness."

• "Neatness begets order but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship."

• "The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time."