Despise Quotes
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It would be foolish to despise tradition. But with our growing self-consciousness and increasing intelligence we must begin to control tradition and assume a critical attitude toward it, if human relations are ever to change for the better.
Albert Einstein
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Whenever anything is spoken against you that is not true, do not pass by or despise it because it is false; but forthwith examine yourself, and consider what you have said or done that may administer a just occasion of reproof.
Plutarch
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We trifle with, make sport of, and despise those who are attached to us, and follow those that fly from us.
William Hazlitt
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No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
Seneca the Younger
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Don't despise the small beginnings because great things are just around the corner.
Creflo A. Dollar
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After all you've put me through, you would think I despise you, but in the end I want to thank you because you made me that much stronger.
Christina Aguilera
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I despise computers in many ways. I think they’re hopelessly underevolved and overrated.
Brian Eno Roxy Music
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Most men unconsciously judge the world from themselves, and it will be very generally found that those who sneer habitually at human nature, and affect to despise it, are among its worst and least pleasant samples.
Charles Dickens
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Neither despise nor oppose what thou dost not understand.
William Penn
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Admire, exult, despise, laugh, weep for here There is such matter for all feelings: Man! Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear.
Lord Byron
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People generally despise where they flatter.
Aristotle
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What does Nietzsche say of fighting men? 'You must have as enemies only those whom you hate, but not those whom you despise. You must be proud of your enemy, and then the enemy's success is your success also.
Ernst Junger
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What is it, Angel?" she said, starting up. "Have they come for me?" "Yes, dearest," he said. "They have come." "It is as it should be," she murmured. "Angel, I am almost glad—yes, glad! This happiness could not have lasted. It was too much. I have had enough; and now I shall not live for you to despise me!" She stood up, shook herself, and went forward, neither of the men having moved. "I am ready," she said quietly.
Thomas Hardy
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Soul mates are muses. The people in your life you despise, disrespect and desire the most.
Coco J. Ginger
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I despise him for himself, and hate him for the memories he revives!
Emily Bronte
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Though you are weak and frail, though you are poor and helpless, God does not despise you; but would glorify your being with His own, and raise you to fellowship with Himself.
George C. Lorimer
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Alas! There cometh the time when man will no longer give birth to any star. Alas! There cometh the time of the most despicable man, who can no longer despise himself.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Why is our own participation in scapegoating so difficult to perceive and the participation of others so easy? To us, our fears and prejudices never appear as such because they determine our vision of people we despise, we fear, and against whom we discriminate.
Rene Girard
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I see myself capable of arrogance and brutality... That's a fierce thing, to discover within yourself that which you despise the most in others.
George Stevens
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Believe not much them that seem to despise riches, for they despise them that despair of them.
Francis Bacon
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So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.
Charles Dickens
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Those who look down on other Christians because they lack a particular gift or experience, or those who despise a particular gift and look down on Christians who have it, are not demonstrating spiritual maturity.
Craig S. Keener
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Do proper homage to thine idol's eyes; But no too humbly, or she will despise Thee and thy suit, though told in moving tropes: Disguise even tenderness if thou art wise.
Lord Byron
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By despising all that has preceded us, we teach others to despise ourselves.
William Hazlitt