Human mind Quote by C. S. Lewis

“The human mind is generally far more eager to praise and dispraise than to describe and define.”

— Lewis Carroll

It is oftener by the estimation of our own feelings that we exaggerate the good qualities of others than by their merit, and when…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Praise has different effects, according to the mind it meets with; it makes a wise man modest, but a fool more arrogant, turning his…

— Owen Feltham

The nature of how we are as human beings is that we're much more interested in being critical rather than praising something.

— Ellie Goulding

How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.

— Horace

Praise is the symbol which represents sympathy, and which the mind insensibly substitutes for its recollection and language.

— James Mackintosh

Taking an interest in what others are thinking and doing is often a much more powerful form of encouragement than praise.

— Robert Martin

Praise never gives us much pleasure unless it concur with our own opinion, and extol us for those qualities in which we chiefly excel.

— David Hume

What praise is more valuable than the praise of an intelligent servant?

— Jane Austen

Words do not express thoughts very well; every thing immediately becomes a little different, a little distorted, a little foolish. And yet it also…

— Anonymous

It is one mark of a superior mind to understand and be influenced by the superiority of others.

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

We are not fond of praising, and never praise any one except from interested motives. Praise is a clever, concealed, and delicate flattery, which…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld