Acquired taste Quote by Mark Van Doren Download Open image “Respect for the Truth is an acquired taste.” — Mark Van Doren ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Acquired taste Ethics Honest truth Honesty Inspirational Respect Taste Truth Truth and honesty Truth honesty Truth is
Familiarity breeds contempt. How accurate that is. The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so little opportunity to get… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder.… — Ted Koppel Copy Share Image
I respect people that tell me the truth, no matter how hard it is. — Christine Ramkran Copy Share Image
One should respect an honest person even if he expresses opinions differing from one's own. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The job of the poet is to render the world-to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No poet ever talks about… — Mark Van Doren Copy Share Image
When it aims to express a love of the world it refuses to conceal the many reasons why the world is hard to love,… — Mark Van Doren Copy Share Image
The connectedness of things is what the educator contemplates to the limit of his capacity. No human capacity is great enough to permit a… — Mark Van Doren Copy Share Image
I have always had the greatest respect for students. There is nothing I hate more than condescension—the attitude that they are inferior to you.… — Mark Van Doren Copy Share Image
“Nothing stays not even change, That can grow tired of it's own name; The very thought too much for it. Somewhere in air a… — Mark Van Doren Copy Share Image
The genius of the Marx Brothers is for parody. They never are themselves. They exist too abundantly to be content with being that -… — Mark Van Doren Copy Share Image
Bring ideas in and entertain them royally, for one of them may be the king. — Mark Van Doren Copy Share Image
The literature of the world has exerted its power by being translated. — Mark Van Doren Copy Share Image
I love the fall. I love it because of the smells that you speak of; and also because things are dying, things that you… — Mark Van Doren Copy Share Image
“There is one thing we can do, and the happiest people are those who do it to the limit of their ability. We can… — Mark Van Doren Copy Share Image
“I'm an acquired taste, he assured her, displaying one dimple, but addictive.” — Stephanie Bond Copy Share Image
Maybe you could put it out there that I don't have a built-in dislike of ballads. That was kind of the reputation I had… — Joe Perry Copy Share Image
I have always loved blizzards, if only because of the driving experience - which is definitely an acquired taste. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I know I'm an acquired taste - I'm anchovies. And not everybody wants those hairy little things. — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
Mundus vult decipi: the world wants to be deceived. The truth is too complex and frightening; the taste for the truth is an acquired… — Walter Kaufmann Copy Share Image
“I'm not a purist. Coffee drinking minus cream and sugar is an acquired taste. I'm still not sure it isn't like telling chefs to… — Kevin Sinnott Copy Share Image
One of my favorite Japanese foods is called natto. It's fermented soybeans. I grew up in Japan eating natto. It's definitely an acquired taste.… — Mazie Hirono Copy Share Image
“Raw persimmon is an acquired taste," he said, handing me a slice, "but I have a feeling you'll like this one." I resisted the… — Meg Donohue Copy Share Image
“I'm like kale; you know that leafy green stuff? I'm an acquired taste. You either hate me or love me. Either way, I really… — Nicole Callesto Copy Share Image
At least in part, people are attracted to subjects where they can identify at a basic level with the people who do it. The… — Margaret Geller Copy Share Image
Twombly, frankly, was an acquired taste. I was not in love with Twombly the first time I saw one of his paintings. — Eli Broad Copy Share Image
