Sensitive Quotes - Page 14

• Man is more sensitive to the contempt of others than to self-contempt.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Self, Contempt

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.218, Courier Corporation

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• My biggest fear always is that I’ll photograph an idea rather than a person, so I try to be quite sensitive to how people are.

  Anton Corbijn

  Ideas, People, Trying

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• A truly peaceful mind is very sensitive, very aware.

  Dalai Lama

  Peaceful, Mind, Awareness

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• Birds ... are sensitive indicators of the environment, a sort of "ecological litmus paper," ... The observation and recording of bird populations over time lead inevitably to environmental awareness and can signal impending changes.

  Roger Tory Peterson

  Change, Science, Bird

  Roger Tory Peterson (2012). “Peterson Field Guide to Birds of Pennsylvania”, p.12, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Doing ill to those on whom we have to make our power felt; for pain is a far more sensitive means for that purpose than pleasure: pain always asks concerning the cause, while pleasure is inclined to keep within itself and not look backward.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Pain, Mean, Suffering

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• Remember, meditation will bring you more and more intelligence, infinite intelligence, a radiant intelligence. Meditation will make you more alive and sensitive; your life will become richer

  Rajneesh

  Infinite Intelligence, Meditation, Alive

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• What is courage? This courage will not be the opposite of despair. We shall often be faced with despair, as indeed every sensitive person has been during the last several decades in this country. Hence Kierkegaard and Nietzsche and Camus and Sartre have proclaimed that courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

  Rollo May

  Country, Courage, Moving

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• Error has made man so deep, sensitive, and inventive that he has put forth such blossoms as religions and arts. Pure knowledge could not have been capable of it.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Art, Knowledge, Science

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.32, Courier Corporation

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• Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; [but] a creed is always sensitive.

  James Anthony Froude

  Science, Opponents, Calm

  James Anthony Froude (2011). “Thomas Carlyle: A History of His Life in London, 1834-1881”, p.244, Cambridge University Press

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• To be born, to live and to die is merely to change forms... And what does one form matter any more than another?... Each form has its own sort of happiness and unhappiness. From the elephant down to the flea... from the flea down to the sensitive and living molecule which is the origin of all, there is not a speck in the whole of nature that does not feel pain or pleasure.

  John Dewey

  Life, Pain, Science

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• There is one experiment which I always like to try, because it proves something whichever way it goes. A solution of iodine in water is shaken with bone-black, filtered and tested with starch paste. If the colorless solution does not turn the starch blue, the experiment shows how completely charcoal extracts iodine from aqueous solution. If the starch turns blue, the experiment shows that the solution, though apparently colorless, still contains iodine which can be detected by means of a sensitive starch test.

  Wilder Dwight Bancroft

  Mean, Science, Iodine

  Wilder Dwight Bancroft (1926). “Applied Colloid Chemistry, General Theory”

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• A Jew must be sensitive to the pain of all human beings. A Jew cannot remain indifferent to human suffering... The mission of the Jewish people has never been to make the world more Jewish, but to make it more human.

  Elie Wiesel

  Pain, Compassion, People

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• In a spiritually sensitive culture, then, it might well be that age is something to be admired or envied.

  Rowan Williams

  Spiritual, Age, Culture

  Rowan Williams (2012). “Faith in the Public Square”, p.243, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I do think that in some ways, the complexity of technology, the things that we all have to deal with in media, have created a new kind of person that is sensitive to media, but also sensitive to the kind of beliefs that people have. And this person can put the two together.

  Jeff Goodby

  Technology, Thinking, Media

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• In discovering books, you became free to explore the full range of human motives, desires, secrets, and lies. All my life, people have scolded me for having an excess of feeling, saying that I was too sensitive - as if one could be in danger from feeling too much instead of too little. But my outsize emotions were well represented in books. [] there simmered all the feelings no one ever admits to.

  Betsy Lerner

  Lying, Book, People

  Betsy Lerner (2016). “The Forest for the Trees: An editor's advice to writers”, p.15, Pan Macmillan

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• Helpless, unknown, and unremembered, most human beings, however sensitive, idealistic, intelligent, go through life as passengers rather than chauffeurs. Although we may pretend that it is the chauffeur who is the social inferior, most of us, like Toad of Toad Hall, would not mind a turn at the wheel ourselves.

  Ralph Harper

  Intelligent, Mind, Wheels

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• Why are infectious disease doctors the best ones to date? They are the most cultured and sensitive.

  Peter Rogers MD

  Doctors, Disease, Infectious Diseases

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• I'm such an incredibly, stupidly sensitive person that everything that happens to me, I experience it really intensely. I feel everything very deeply. And when you feel things deeply and you think about things a lot and you think about how you feel, you learn a lot about yourself. And when you know yourself, you know life.

  Fiona Apple

  Thinking, Sensitive Person, How You Feel

  "Fiona Apple's Cinderella Story". MTV News Interview, www.mtv.com. October 4, 1996.

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• Our God is not made of stone. His heart is the most sensitive and tender of all. No act goes unnoticed, no matter how insignificant or small. A cup of cold water is enough to put tears in the eyes of God. God celebrates our feeble expressions of gratitude.

  Richard J. Foster

  Gratitude, Heart, Eye

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• I have always believed that socially unacceptable men make much better lovers because they are more sensitive.

  Candy Darling

  Men, Lovers, Always Believe

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I say to myself, go on seeking, be glad for being sensitive, be glad you're able to go beyond the resistance inside you. It is our resistance to what we experience that makes creativity possible. So don't get rid of resistance like that by going around it or trying to eliminate it. Our own limitations put up strong resistance, but it's because of that that we are creators

  Brother Roger

  Strong, Creativity, Trying

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• Many people think in terms of either/or: either you're nice or you're tough. Win-win requires that you be both. It is a balancing act between courage and consideration. To go for win-win, you not only have to be empathic, but you also have to be confident. You not only have to be considerate and sensitive, you also have to be brave. To do that-to achieve that balance between courage and consideration-is the essence of real maturity and is fundamental to win-win.

  Stephen Covey

  Real, Nice, Maturity

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• He should avail himself of their resources in such ways as to advance the expression of the spirit in the life of mankind. He should use them so as to afford to every human being the greatest possible opportunity for developing and expressing his distinctively human capacity as an instrument of the spirit, as a centre of sensitive and intelligent awareness of the objective universe, as a centre of love of all lovely things, and of creative action for the spirit.

  Olaf Stapledon

  Inspirational, Life, Intelligent

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• The empty mind - the pure mind - is not a blank, zero-land, where you're not feeling or caring about anything. It's an effulgence of the mind. It's a brightness that is truly sensitive and accepting. It's an ability to accept life as it is. When we accept life as it is, we can respond appropriately to the way we're experiencing it, rather than just reacting out of fear and aversion.

  Ajahn Sumedho

  Zero, Caring, Land

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• A mathematician is only perfect insofar as he is a perfect man, sensitive to the beauty of truth.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Perfect, Mathematician

  "Maxims and Reflections". Book by by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, translated by Elisabeth Stopp. Maxim 609, 1998.

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