imitation

It is not so much the example of others we imitate as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

Good taste is the modesty of the mind; that is why it cannot be either imitated or acquired.

Biophilia: the innate pleasure from living abundance and diversity as manifested by the human impulse to imitate Nature with gardens.

Sincerity is an open heart. Few people show it; usually what we see is an imitation put on to snare the confidence of others.

Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and Third, by experience, which is the bitterest.

If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire. A generous habit of thought and action carries with it an incalculable influence.

We have seen that the senses and intuitions, the various emotions and faculties, such as love, memory, attention and curiosity, imitation, reason, etc., of which man boasts, may be found in an incipient, or even sometimes in a well-developed condition, in the lower animals.