Disdains Quotes

17 quotes by 14 authors

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
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
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
Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core. — William James
Your thought describes laws, courts, judges, punishments. Mine explains that when man makes a law, he either violates it or obeys it. If there is… — Khalil Gibran
A root is a flower that disdains fame. — Khalil Gibran
For me, it works to my advantage when people think I'm stupid. If somebody who disdains you or wants to control you underestimates you, you… — Veronica Webb
Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored. — Abraham Lincoln
For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror which we are barely able to endure, and it amazes us so, because it serenely disdains… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Each of us is several, is many,is a profusion of selves. So that the self who disdains his surroundings is not the same as the… — Fernando Pessoa
But wise is the man who disdains no character, but with searching glance explores him to the root and cause of all. — Nikolai Gogol
There is a middlebrow snobbery in America that praises everything on public television and disdains everything on the commercial networks as a blight. — Henry Fairlie
Who if I cried out, would hear me among the angel's hierarchies? and even if one of them pressed me suddenly against his heart: I… — Rainer Maria Rilke
One often gets what one disdains — Vietnamese Prover

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