Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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• In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River.

  

  Daniel Boone
  • Time
  • Enemy
  • River

• In the age of the internet when everybody's a pundit, we're still gonna need somebody there to go talk to the colonels, to be on the ground in Baghdad and stuff and that's very expensive.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Age
  • Internet
  • Talk

• Virtually every major technology has an initial spike of interest, then a dip, and then a long-term rise to success. The dot-com bubble is the canonical example, but there are many more.

  

  Balaji Srinivasan
  • Long
  • Success
  • Technology

• Kai-Fu's Innovation Works is the top very-early-stage fund in China. We are proud to be an investor, and hope that IW will help to produce in China companies on the scale of Facebook, Zynga, or Groupon.

  

  Yuri Milner
  • Help
  • Hope
  • Proud

• We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.

  

  Harold Nicolson
  • Judge
  • Others
  • Ideals

• I am surrounded by great people.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • People
  • Great

• To me, music is no joke and it's not for sale.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Music
  • Me
  • Joke

• At Munich we sold the Czechs for a few months grace, but the disgrace will last as long as history.

  

  F. L. Lucas
  • Long
  • History
  • Grace

• When I'm writing, it's the weirdest thing: it's not even a conscious process. I'm not even thinking when I write, and then all of a sudden, I'll have a song that makes me feel so much better than I did before.

  

  Banks
  • Thinking
  • Feel
  • Better

• Ultravox were the blueprint for what I wanted to do, but I stumbled across them by accident.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Wanted
  • Accident
  • Blueprint

• Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.

  

  Barack Obama
  • War
  • Police
  • Planning

• I can trust in Jesus. And this Gospel that we preach does work. So those who are hurting and suffering today, hang in there. The sun will shine again.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
  • Work
  • Today
  • Trust

• We will stand by the Paris climate deal.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Paris
  • Will
  • Stand

• I'm a big fan of all those singing competition shows.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Singing
  • Competition
  • Big

• What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Society
  • Always
  • Down

• If I read in a paper that somebody has said something about me, I'm going to take it with a pinch of salt; I really am!

  

  Kajol
  • Me
  • Said
  • Salt

• My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.

  

  Patricia Highsmith
  • People
  • Imagination
  • Better

• It seems like when I first started, people got into comedy because they wanted to be good comedians.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • People
  • Good
  • Comedy

• As far as the 2009 elections go, there has been a serious crackdown on human rights in Iran, a clampdown on the media and the wrongful imprisonment of journalists. So it seems what's happening is the government is going after people who have a voice, people who change society or public opinion.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • People
  • Society
  • Change

• These arms of mine, They are lonely. Lonely and feeling blue. These arms of mine, They are yearning. Yearning from wanting you. And if you would let them hold you, Oh how grateful I will be.

  

  Otis Redding
  • Feeling
  • Blue
  • Lonely

• To fight is to face death once more, perhaps the total annihilation of their kind. But to run... is that not also a kind of annihilation?

  

  Nalini Singh
  • Death
  • Running
  • Fighting

• It's not a question of how much power you can hoard for yourself, but how much you can give away.

  

  Benjamin Zander
  • Power
  • Question
  • Give Away

• Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
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