(419 quotes found)
“Whatever sympathy I feel towards religions, whatever admiration for some of their adherents, whatever historical or biological necessity I see in them, whatever metaphorical truth, I cannot accept them as credible explanations of reality; and they are incredible to me in proportion to the degree that they require my belief in positive human attributes and intervenient powers in their divinities.”
John Fowles
“Our admiration is so given to dead martyrs that we have little time for living heroes.”
Elbert Hubbard
“I adore wearing gems, but not because they are mine. You can't possess radiance, you can only admire it.”
Elizabeth Taylor
“If a man could mount to heaven and survey the mighty universe, his admiration of its beauties would be much diminished unless he had some one to share in his pleasure”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.”
Jean Cocteau
“Enthusiastic Admiration is the first Principle of Knowledge and its last.”
William Blake
“When a nation gives birth to a man who is able to produce a great thought, another is born who is able to understand and admire it”
Joseph Joubert
“Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?”
Walt Whitman
“Distance is a great promoter of admiration!”
Denis Diderot
“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 kept alive by a perpetual succession of miracles rising into view.”
Joseph Addison
