Disdain Quotes

122 quotes by 111 authors

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
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
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
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
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
To disdain today is to prove that yesterday has been misunderstood. — Maurice Maeterlinck
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
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
Towering genius disdains a beaten path ... It scorns to tread in the footsteps of any predecessor, however illustrious. It thirsts for distinction. — Abraham Lincoln
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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

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