Disdain Quotes
122 quotes by 111 authors
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Joyful let the soul be in the present, let it disdain to trouble about what is beyond and temper bitterness with a laugh. Nothing is…
— Horace
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One should not be envious of someone who has prospered by unjust deeds. Nor should he disdain someone who has fallen while adhering to the…
— Imagawa Sadayo
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No matter how much someone may irritate me, I have no right to puff myself up with my own self-importance so as to declare that…
— Paulo Freire
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The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of one's…
— Fran Lebowitz
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If your reaction to your partner's fear-or any other form of distress- is disdain or irritation, you do not want oneness or even friendship with…
— Hugh Prather
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To disdain today is to prove that yesterday has been misunderstood.
— Maurice Maeterlinck
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I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains.
— James A. Michener
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He who disdains the fall in infant mortality and the gradual disappearance of famines and plagues may cast the first stone upon the materialism of…
— Ludwig von Mises
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Towering genius disdains a beaten path ... It scorns to tread in the footsteps of any predecessor, however illustrious. It thirsts for distinction.
— Abraham Lincoln
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Without theory, practice is but routine born of habit. Theory alone can bring forth and develop the spirit of invention. ... [Do not] share the…
— Louis Pasteur
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Jesus knows our world. He does not disdain us like the God of Aristotle. We can speak to Him and He answers us. Although He…
— Alexis Carrel
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With disdain I will throw my gauntlet full in the fact of the world and see the collapse of this pygmy giant. Then will I…
— Karl Marx
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Pessimism is a form of mental dipsomania; it disdains healthy nourishment, indulges in the strong drink of denunciation, and creates an artificial dejection which thirsts…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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Sexuality is the key to the problem of the psychoneuroses and of the neuroses in general. No one who disdains the key will ever be…
— Sigmund Freud
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It may be safely averred that good cookery is the best and truest economy, turning to full account every wholesome article of food, and converting…
— Eliza Acton
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He constructed a vast labyrinthine of periods, made impassable by the piling-up of clauses upon clauses-clauses in which oversight and bad grammar seemed manifestations of…
— Jorge Luis Borges
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The creator of the heavens obeys a carpenter; the God of eternal glory listens to a poor virgin. Has anyone ever witnessed anything comparable to…
— Anthony of Padua
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Let Americans disdain to be the instruments of European greatness! Let the thirteen States, bound together in a strict and indissoluble Union, concur in erecting…
— Alexander Hamilton
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The idea of governing at all times by the simple force of law (which we have been told is the only admissible principle of republican…
— Alexander Hamilton
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The difference between an amateur and a professional photographer is that the amateur thinks the camera does the work. And they treat the camera with…
— David Hemmings
Who Wrote These Disdain Quotes
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