Admiration Quote by George Santayana Download Open image “The quality of wit inspires more admiration than confidence” — George Santayana ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Admiration Confidence Inspire Quality Wit
Confidence in conversation has a greater share than wit. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Triumph of Wit is to make your good Nature subdue your Censure; to be quick in seeing Faults, and slow in exposing them. You are to consider, that the invisible thing called a Good Name, is made up of the Breath of Numbers that speak well of you; so that if by a disobliging Word you silence the meanest,… — E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax Copy Share
Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless… — Philip Dormer Stanhope Copy Share Image
Wit is absolutely sociable spirit or aphoristic genius. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
A small degree of wit, accompanied by good sense, is less tiresome in the long run than a great amount of wit without it. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The art of conversation consists far less in displaying much wit oneself than in helping others to be witty: the man who leaves your… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
To be a wit, intelligence is enough; to be a poet takes imagination. — Cardinalde Bernis Copy Share Image
The combative instinct is a savage prompting by which one man's good is found in another's evil. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“The contemporary world has turned its back on the attempt and even on the desire to live reasonably.” — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The pride of the artisan in his art and its uses is pride in himself...It is in his skill and ability to make things… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Towers in a modern town are a frill and a survival; they seem like the raised hands of the various churches, afraid of being… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Whoever it was who searched the heavens with a telescope and found no God would not have found the human mind if he had… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Experience is a mere whiff or rumble, produced by enormously complex and ill-deciphered causes of experience; and in the other direction, experience is a… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
I have tremendous admiration for companies with the kind of pioneering spirit and innovation eBay has demonstrated from day one. — Bonnie Hammer Copy Share Image
The older you've gotten, the more respect and admiration you've received. — Jupp Heynckes Copy Share Image
I still don't feel I know Hitchcock at all. I find that the more one looks, the more elusive he becomes. But my admiration… — Toby Jones Copy Share Image
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The book it reminded me of most is Henry Miller’s The Books in My Life. Like Miller, Shields manages to convey his affection for… — Andre Alexis Copy Share Image
... we need to interrogate "reverence," for idolization can be another way one is objectified and not really taken seriously. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
It may be important to great thinkers to examine the world, to explain and despise it. But I think it is only important to… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“There must be a reason to smile, Miss François. Will you supply one?" It was Daisy's turn to stare. For a long moment they… — Jaime Jo Wright Copy Share Image
“Let me make two remarks. First I concentrate on the task ahead for 2016. I’m quite busy with that—thank you very much. And I’m… — Claudia Clark Copy Share Image
The holiness of the church means that life, as well as truth, marks Christ’s church; the behavior of Christians in the world must be… — Edmund Clowney Copy Share Image
Admittedly great though these reasons be, they are not the principal grounds, that is, those which may rightfully claim for themselves the privilege of… — Giovanni Pico della Mirandola Copy Share Image
