Admiration Quote by Niklaus Wirth

Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.

— William Hazlitt

Complexity begets ambiguity, which yields in all ways to prejudice and avarice. Complication does not so much defeat Men as arm them with fancy.

— R. Scott Bakker

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

Much of what sophisticates loftily refer to as the "complexityof the real world is in fact the inconsistency in their own minds.

— Thomas Sowell

Familiarity brings contempt but rarity breeds admiration

— Ogunsakin Ayobami Ayorinde

“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

Familiarity breeds contempt, while rarity wins admiration.

— Apuleius

Anyone who draws attention to himself as an individual, is viewed with suspicion. We acquired this tendency, of course, from America, and we must…

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

“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

The intellectually sophisticated person is indifferent to all genuine individuality, because relationships and reactions result from it which cannot be exhausted with logical operations.

— Georg Simmel

People incline to doubt the superiority of a person who will associate with them.

— Mary Catherwood

Such is the nature of novelty that where anything pleases it becomes doubly agreeable if new; but if it displeases, it is doubly displeasing…

— David Hume