Despise Quotes - Page 10

• I despise the cowardly clinging to life, purely for the sake of life, that seems so deeply ingrained in the American temperament.

  Christopher Lasch

  Sake, Clinging, Temperament

  8 Copy quote

• What female heart can gold despise? What cat 's averse to fish?

  Thomas Gray

  Heart, Cat, Gold

  1747 Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes, l.23-4.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• On why I don't trust democracy without extremely powerful systems of accountability and recall What seems to be generosity is often only disguised ambition - which despises small interests to gain great ones.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Powerful, Ambition, Generosity

  8 Copy quote

• I have been accused of being a ‘black magician.’ No more foolish statement was ever made about me. I despise the thing to such an extent that I can hardly believe in the existence of people so debased and idiotic as to practice it.

  Aleister Crowley

  Believe, Practice, People

  "The Worst Man in the World". The Sunday Dispatch, July 02, 1933.

  57 Copy quote

  Show source

• If the term education may be understood in so large a sense as to include all that belongs to the improvement of the mind, either by the acquisition of the knowledge of others or by increase of it through its own exertions, we learn by them what is the kind of education science offers to man. It teaches us to be neglectful of nothing - not to despise the small beginnings, for they precede of necessity all great things in the knowledge of science, either pure or applied.

  Michael Faraday

  Knowledge, Science, Men

  20 Copy quote

• Science even more than the Gospel teaches us humility. She cannot look down on anything, she does not know what superiority means, she despises nothing, never lies for the sake of a pose, and conceals nothing out of coquetry. She stops before the facts as an investigator, sometimes as a physician, never as an executioner, and still less with hostility and irony.

  Alexander Herzen

  Lying, Teaching, Mean

  36 Copy quote

• It is folly to use as one's guide in the selection of fundamental science the criterion of utility. Not because (scientists)... despise utility. But because. .. useful outcomes are best identified after the making of discoveries, rather than before.

  John Charles Polanyi

  Science, Discovery, Use

  4 Copy quote

• Oh despise not election! therein lies all your hope, that there is a remnant who shall infallibly be saved.

  Thomas Goodwin

  Lying, Election, Remnants

  41 Copy quote

• Colombe Josse is the older Jesse daughter. Colombe Jesse is also a sort of tall blonde leek who dresses like a penniless Bohemian. If there is one thing I despise, it is the perverse affectation of rich people who go around dressing as if they were poor, in second-hand clothes, ill-fitting gray bonnets, socks full of holes, and flowered shirts under threadbare sweaters. Not only is it ugly, it is also insulting: nothing is more despicable than a rich man's scorn for a poor man's longing.

  Muriel Barbery

  Daughter, Gratitude, Men

  14 Copy quote

• Regaining favor with your worst enemy is a satisfactory but short lived relief.

  Joseph O. Shelby

  Hate, Worst Enemy, Relief

  5 Copy quote

• The settled man can cope with love and hate from others, but never with their indifference.

  James Huxley

  Hate, Men, Indifference

  5 Copy quote

• Let us not forget such words, and all they mean, as hatred, bitterness, and rancor greed, intolerance, bigotry; let us renew our faith and pledge to man, his right to be himself and free.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Hate, Mean, Equality

  4 Copy quote

• If Islam despises Christianity, it has a thousandfold right to do so: Islam at least assumes that it is dealing with men.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Islam, Assuming

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “The Antichrist”, p.96, Friederich Nietzsche

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• The theoretician believes in logic and believes that he despises dreams, intuition, and poetry. He does not recognize that these three fairies have only disguised themselves in order to dazzle him.... He does not know that he owes his greatest discoveries to them.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Dream, Believe, Ignorance

  12 Copy quote

• Men despise great projects when they do not feel themselves capable of great successes.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Life, Men, Great Success

  Jean de La Bruyère, Luc de Clapiers marquis de Vauvenargues (1903). “La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• That a person cannot and consequently will not defend himself, does not yet cast disgrace upon him in our eyes ; but we despise the person who has neither the ability nor the good will for revenge whether it be a man or a woman.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Revenge, Eye, Men

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “The Gay Science”, p.55, Courier Corporation

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• 'Tis more noble to forgive, and more manly to despise, than to revenge an Injury.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Revenge, Forgiving, Noble

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.211, Barnes & Noble Publishing

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• There is harm not only in trying to gain wealth but also in excessive concern with even the most necessary things. It is not enough to despise wealth, but you must also feed the poor and, more importantly, you must follow Christ.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Spiritual, Trying, Gains

  16 Copy quote

• I despise people who depend on these things [heroin and cocaine]. If you really want a mind-altering experience, look at a tree.

  A.C. Grayling

  Science, People, Tree

  34 Copy quote

• Seeing the lightest and gayest purple was then most in fashion, he would always wear that which was the nearest black; and he would often go out of doors, after his morning meal, without either shoes or tunic; not that he sought vain-glory from such novelties, but he would accustom himself to be ashamed only of what deserves shame, and to despise all other sorts of disgrace.

  Plutarch

  Fashion, Morning, Doors

  Plutarch (2011). “Plutarch's Lives”, p.528, Bantam

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• [Hermogenes] despises God's law in his painting, maintains repeated marriages [almost certainly a reference to remarrying after divorce or perhaps even widowhood, which Tertullian, who became a Montanist, opposed], alleges the law of God in defense of lust [likely same reference], and yet despises it in respect of his art.

  Tertullian

  Religious, Art, Divorce

  13 Copy quote

• It never was our guise to slight the poor, or aught humane despise.

  Homer

  Charity, Philanthropy, Poor

  Homer (1811). “The Odyssey of Homer, translated by Alexander Pope”, p.274

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Never fear another challenger, no matter how large; Never despise another challenger, no matter how small.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Matter, Never Fear

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.65, Shambhala Publications

  27 Copy quote

  Show source

• To despise all effort is the greatest effort of all.

  John Fowles

  Effort

  John Fowles (1968). “The Magus”, Pan

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Retirement accords with the tone of my mind; I will not descend to a world I despise.

  Lord Byron

  Retirement, Mind, World

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.138, Delphi Classics

  4 Copy quote

  Show source