“Every man I meet is in some way my superior; and in that I can learn of him.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
As quoted in Think, Vol. 4-5 (1938), p. 32
“Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: Every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him.”
Greatness <br class="br">1870s, Society and Solitude (1870), Books, Letters and Social Aims http://www.rwe.org/comm/index.php?option=com_content&task=category&sectionid=5&id=74&Itemid=149 (1876)
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