Scorns Quotes

26 quotes by 22 authors

We can afford to exercise the self-restraint of a really great nation which realizes its own strength and scorns to misuse it. — Woodrow Wilson
Art is nothing but the expression of our dream; the more we surrender to it the closer we get to the inner truth of things,… — Franz Marc
Towering genius disdains a beaten path ... It scorns to tread in the footsteps of any predecessor, however illustrious. It thirsts for distinction. — Abraham Lincoln
I would not for a moment have you suppose that I am one of those idiots who scorns Science, merely because it is always twisting… — Robertson Davies
Fly not yet; 't is just the hour When pleasure, like the midnight flower That scorns the eye of vulgar light, Begins to bloom for… — Charles Lamb
Patriotism can flourish only where racism and nationalism are given no quarter. We should never mistake patriotism for nationalism. A patriot is one who loves… — Johannes Rau
Just as God's love entered the world, thereby submitting to the misunderstanding and ambiguity that characterize everything worldly, so also Christian love does not exist… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
What one approves , another scorns, And thus his nature each discloses: You find the rosebush full of thorns, I find the thornbush full of… — Arthur Guiterman
Not he who scorns the Saviour's yoke Should wear his cross upon the heart. — Friedrich Schiller
O that my tongue were in the thunder's mouth! Then with passion would I shake the world, And rouse from sleep that fell anatomy Which… — William Shakespeare
Coal-black is better than another hue In that it scorns to bear another hue; For all the water in the ocean Can never turn the… — William Shakespeare
Courage, the highest gift, that scorns to bend To mean devices for a sordid end. Courage--an independent spark from Heaven's bright throne, By which the… — George Farquhar
A brave man scorns to quarrel once a day; Like Hectors in at every petty fray. — John Dryden
The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither… — John W. Gardner
A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe,… — Robert Green Ingersoll
When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism. — Robert Green Ingersoll
The reasoning man who scorns the prejudices of simpletons necessarily becomes the enemy of simpletons; he must expect as much, and laugh at the inevitable. — Marquis de Sade
Somebody who only reads newspapers and at best books of contemporary authors looks to me like an extremely near-sighted person who scorns eyeglasses. He is… — Albert Einstein
You can't reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns. — Mark Twain
No one, in the world's whole history, ever attempted to substantiate a truth by a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of miracle. Nothing but falsehood… — Robert Green Ingersoll

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