Quote by Gerhard Kopf

“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 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, 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

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

— Joseph Addison

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

There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Admiration involves a glorious obliquity of vision.

— Max Beerbohm

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 bestowed upon any one but ourselves is always tedious.

— Honore de Balzac

“Admiration is the feeling you get when you find that someone is superior to you, or someone is better than you in certain ways.”

— Dr Prem Jagyasi

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