Despise Quotes

• Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  People

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• Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.

  Khalil Gibran

  Wisdom, Turns, Words Of Wisdom

  "What Has Wisdom Got to Do with It? - 365 Daily Wisdom Confessions and Declarations". Book by Jasmine Renner, p. 85, 2013.

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• We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Fear

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.421

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• So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.

  Charles Dickens

  People, Expectations, Words Of Wisdom

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.7278, Delphi Classics

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• O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.

  William Penn

  Wise, Wisdom, Understanding

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• Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Pain, Power, Bears

  "Dictionary Of Latin Quotations Proverbs Maximus And Mottos, Classical And Medieval, Including Law Terms And Phrases". Book by H. Z Riley, November 5, 2015.

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• When you locate good in yourself, approve of it with determination. When you locate evil in yourself, despise it as something detestable.

  Confucius

  Determination, Evil

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• If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.

  Abraham Maslow

  Determination, Life And Love, Ocean

  "A History of Psychology: A Global Perspective". Book by Eric Shiraev (p. 431),

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• People generally despise where they flatter.

  Aristotle

  People, Flattery

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• I love and treasure individuals as I meet them, I loath and despise the groups they identify or belong to.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Humor, Groups

  George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion

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• A wise traveler never despises his own country.

  William Hazlitt

  Wise, Country, Travel

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• Allah says in the Qur'an not to despise one another. So the criterion in Islam is not color or social status. It's who is most righteous. If I go to a mosque - and I'm a basketball player with money and prestige - if I go to a mosque and see an imam, I feel inferior. He's better than me. It's about knowledge.

  Hakeem Olajuwon

  Basketball, Player, Color

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• Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.

  George Santayana

  Men, Dignity, Capacity

  George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.230, Рипол Классик

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• Dangers by being despised grow great.

  Edmund Burke

  Hate, Danger, Grows

  Speech on the Petition of the Unitarians, 11 May 1792, in 'The Works' vol. 5 (1812)

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• It is fair to despise a cowardly man, but the female sex is strongest when it's weak.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Strength, Sex, Men

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• I see myself capable of arrogance and brutality... That's a fierce thing, to discover within yourself that which you despise the most in others.

  George Stevens

  Arrogance, Brutality, Fierce

  George Cooper Stevens, Paul Cronin (2004). “George Stevens: Interviews”, p.13, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.

  Blaise Pascal

  Fear, Hate, Men

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pensées”, p.300, Courier Corporation

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• Hanging onto resentment is letting someone you despise live rent-free in your head.

  Ann Landers

  Moving On, Forgiveness, Letting Go

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• Just as a child respects his father even when he perceives his weaknesses and faults, so a German will not despise the old Germany which was once a symbol of greatness to him.

  Gustav Stresemann

  Children, Father, Greatness

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• They don't ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise.

  Boris Pasternak

  Hate, Want, Things You Love

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• The men resent a woman getting any honour in what they consider is essentially their field. Men painters mostly despise women painters. So I have decided to stop squirming, to throw any honour in with Canada and women.

  Emily Carr

  Men, Canada, Fields

  Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.383, D & M Publishers

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• There are more things to admire in men than to despise.

  Albert Camus

  Men, Admire, Plague

  "The Plague".

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• If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

  Hermann Hesse

  Spiritual, Hate, Hatred

  Demian ch. 6 (1919)

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• Only the elites despise earning money.

  Newt Gingrich

  Earning, Earning Money, Elites

  "Race raised in US election year". "AM" with Lisa Millar, www.abc.net.au. January 18, 2012.

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• Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Inspirational, Courage, Men

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.92

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