Whoever despises the high wisdom of mathematics nourishes himself on delusion and will never still the sophistic sciences whose only product is… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
What can be happier than for a man, conscious of virtuous acts, and content with liberty, to despise all human affairs? [Lat.,… — Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger Copy Share Image
“If a man acts in a purely mechanical way, reacting to external demands or instruction rather than in ways determined by his… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“I despise this false lucidity that comes with age. The truth is that they are just like everyone else: nothing more than… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
Every child was taught from his cradle that money was Mammon, the chief agent of the flesh and the devil. As he… — Rebecca Harding Davis Copy Share Image
I particularly scorn my fondness for paradox. I despise pessimism, narcissism, solipsism, truculence, word-play, and pusillanimity, my chiefer inclinations; loathe self-loathers ergo… — John Barth Copy Share Image
There are persons whom in my heart I despise, others I abhor. Yet I am not obliged to inform the one of… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Never despise small beginnings, and don't belittle your own accomplishments. Remember them and use them as inspiration as you go on to… — Chris Guillebeau Copy Share Image
The applause of list'ning senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land,… — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
Would-be income guarantors ignore or despise the capitalistic system that makes their dreams dreamable and gives their redistribute-the-income proposals whatever plausibility they… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Human life is but of brief duration. 'All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
If a man sets out to hate all the miserable creatures he meets, he will not have much energy left for anything… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Nothing that we despise in other men is inherently absent from ourselves. We must learn to regard people less in the light… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
I could see that making judgments about people so that they are tried and sentenced in your head, without asking them for… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
Most men unconsciously judge the world from themselves, and it will be very generally found that those who sneer habitually at human… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I despise hip hop. Loathe it. Eminem is an idiot and I find 50 Cent the most distasteful character I have ever… — Noel Gallagher Copy Share Image
Sounded like girls. Mixed feelings on that score. He didn't despise them with the same passion he used to. In fact, Benny… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
I know the compassion of others is a relief at first. I don't despise it. But it can't quench pain, it slips… — Georges Bernanos Copy Share Image
“That's what I thought, too when I was your age. If there's just one kind of folks, why can't they get along… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
A good youth ought to have a fear of God, to be subject to his parents, to give honor to his elders,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Then my verse I dishonor, my pictures despise, my person degrade and my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the… — William Blake Copy Share Image
I honestly believe that the doctrine of hell was born in the glittering eyes of snakes that run in frightful coils watching… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Nothing but real love--(how rare it is; has one human heart in a million ever known it?) nothing but real love can… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wretched life. [Lat., Rebus in angustis… — Martial Copy Share Image
He went out with a variety of women, slept with some of them, hated the whole meaningless process. Drinks, dinners, plays and… — Ken Grimwood Copy Share Image
I began to despise Lenin, even when I was in the first grade, not so much because of his political philosophy or… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
When you stand with the outcasts, you stand with Jesus, and when you despise the outcast, you despise Jesus, as well. Becoming… — Mel White Copy Share Image
The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do;… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
But actual rapists, men who are usually known to (and often loved by) their victims? Men who are sometimes our sports heroes,… — Jaclyn Friedman Copy Share Image
There is harm not only in trying to gain wealth but also in excessive concern with even the most necessary things. It… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
On why I don't trust democracy without extremely powerful systems of accountability and recall What seems to be generosity is often only… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Voice acting is very different from live-action. You only have one tool to convey emotion. You can't sell a line with a… — Felicia Day Copy Share Image
We cannot ask a man what he will do, and if we should, and he should answer us, we should despise him… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Never to despise in myself what I have been taught to despise. Nor to despise the other. Not to despise the it.… — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image
It is a just observation that the people commonly intend the Public Good. This often applies to their very errors. But their… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
You may have enemies whom you hate, but not enemies whom you despise. You must be proud of your enemy: then the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The point is that profound but contradictory ideas may exist side by side, if they are constructed from different materials and methods.… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
Anna despises two classes of people: first, those who own their own homes and have cars and families, and second, everybody else.… — Elfriede Jelinek Copy Share Image
![“What can be happier than for a man, conscious of virtuous acts, and content with liberty, to despise all human affairs? [Lat., Quid enim est melius quam memoria recte factorum, et libertate contentum negligere humana?]” quote by Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c20/marcus-junius-brutus-the-young_affair_what-can-be-happier-than-for-a-man-consc_735053.jpg)
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