Quotes: admiration
Quotes 1 till 15 of 31.
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As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children
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A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.
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A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.
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Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.
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Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.
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Admiration spoils all from infancy. Ah! How well said! Ah! How well done! How well-behaved he is! etc.
Source: Pensees (1669) -
As biologists, we contemplate with admiration and awe the wondrous array of sophisticated cell interactions and recognitions evolved in the T cell immune system, which must be a model for other similarly complex biological systems of highly differentiated organisms.
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Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt.
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Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.
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Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.
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How useless is painting, which attracts admiration by the resemblance of things, the originals of which we do not admire!
Source: Pensees (1669) -
I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don't know where I would be without it.
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If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.
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It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent ambitious, that the harvest is still so abundant.
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It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.
Source: The Human Side (1954)
