Admiration Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

“There is an innocence in admiration: it occurs in one who has not yet realized that they might one day be admired.”

— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Admiration is seen as a noble sentiment - we admire people for admiring others, detecting, in their admiration, a suggestion of taste and humility.

— Maria Konnikova

Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.

— Joseph Addison

Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries, and…

— Joseph Addison

Admiration is a very short lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it still be fed with fresh discoveries,…

— Joseph Addison

“There are three things admiration affirms; the lack of autonomy, the senility of the mind, and the strength of desperation. Irrationality and inferiority are…

— Lionel Suggs

Admiration must be continued by that novelty which first produces it; and how much soever is given, there must always be reason to imagine…

— Samuel Johnson

Admiration is one of the most bewitching, enthusiastic passions of the mind; and every common moralist knows that it arises from novelty and surprise,…

— William Warburton

“The state of admiration is a condition of feeblemindedness. Most people are feebleminded all their lives only because they admire. Only a dimwit admires,…

— Gerhard Kopf

I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don't know…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Admiration involves a glorious obliquity of vision.

— Max Beerbohm

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.

— Eleanor Roosevelt