Contempt Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer

Reproach is shame, blame, disgrace, disapproval and a disrespectful attitude toward yourself. When you're under reproach, your behavior shows it.

— Joyce Meyer

To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.

— Tacitus

Reproach is usually honest, which is more than can be said of praise.

— Honore de Balzac

“What matters is not what we seem to a random group, but what we know we are. In Schopenhauer’s words: ‘Every reproach can hurt…

— Alain de Botton

Reproach is infinite, and knows no end So voluble a weapon is the tongue; Wounded, we wound; and neither side can fail For every…

— Homer

He who cannot accept reproof cannot become great.

— Nachman of Breslov

old grudges and bitterness always hurt the individual more than the one whom he believes injured him.

— Elizabeth Chandler

He, who survives his reputation, lives out of despite himself, like a man listening to his own reproach.

— Thomas Paine

Only repentance can heal what hurts no matter what it is

— FamilySharecom

Reproof, especially as it relates to children, administered in all gentleness, will render the culprit not afraid, but ashamed to repeat the offence.

— Hosea Ballou

That a person cannot and consequently will not defend himself, does not yet cast disgrace upon him in our eyes ; but we despise…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

If repentance is neglected for an instant, one can lose the power of the Resurrection as he lives with the weakness of tepidity and…

— Saint John Chrysostom