Condescension Quote by Jean Gebser

...In this world I cannot see the Most High Son of God with my own eyes, except for His Most Holy Body and Blood.

— Francis of Assisi

The insolent civility of a proud man is, if possible, more shocking than his rudeness could be; because he shows you, by his manner,…

— Lord Chesterfield

Good motives aside, white condescension does more damage than good. White condescension says to a black child, 'The rules used by other ethnic groups…

— Larry Elder

“There is no point in fighting condescension with condescension.”

— Amitava Kumar

Lisp is still #1 for key algorithmic techniques such as recursion and condescension.

— Verity Stob

the true art of the gods is the comic. The comic is a condescension of the divine to the world of man; it is…

— Isak Dinesen

But the severe rules of discipline which the prudence of the bishops had instituted were relaxed by the same prudence in favour of an…

— Edward Gibbon

I would not preach tolerance, which seems to me another name for condescension and presupposes faults in those to be tolerated ... Nor do…

— Josephine Lawrence

As God adds his ‘Yes’ to your ‘Yes,’ as he confirms your will with his will, and as he allows you, and approves of,…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“A number of years ago, when I was a freshly-appointed instructor, I met, for the first time, a certain eminent historian of science. At…

— Isaac Asimov

Obama's Nobel Peace Prize is an exquisite act of condescension from Norwegians, a dog biscuit and a pat on the head to the American…

— Mark Steyn

There is almost a touch of condescension in the act of hiring friends that secretly afflicts them. The injury will come out slowly: A…

— Robert Greene