Admirable Quotes - Page 6

• Scientists are convinced that they, as scientists, possess a number of very admirable human qualities, such as accuracy, observation, reasoning power, intellectual curiosity, tolerance, and even humility.

  Anthony Standen

  Humility, Science, Numbers

  Anthony Standen (1950). “Science is a sacred cow”

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• There is a certain kind of person who is so dominated by the desire to be loved for himself alone that he has constantly to test those around him by tiresome behavior; what he says and does must be admired, not because it is intrinsically admirable, but because it is his remark, his act. Does not this explain a good deal of avant-garde art?

  W. H. Auden

  Art, Desire, Doe

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• Genealogies are admirable things, provided they do not encourage the curious delusion that some families are older than others.

  W. H. Auden

  Curious, Genealogy, Delusion

  "Forewords and Afterwords" by W. H. Auden, ("As It Seemed to Us"), (p. 498), 1973.

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• There are minds constructed like the eyes of certain insects, which discern, with admirable distinctness, the most delicate lineaments and finest veins of the leaf which bears them, but are totally unable to take in the ensemble of the plant or shrub. When error has effected an entrance into such minds, it remains there impregnable, because no general view assists them in throwing off the chance impression of the moment.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Eye, Errors, Views

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• The man who has learned to triumph over sorrow wears his miseries as though they were sacred fillets upon his brow; and nothing is so entirely admirable as a man bravely wretched.

  Seneca the Younger

  Grief, Men, Sorrow

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• We have had more brilliant Presidents than Cleveland, and one or two who were considerably more profound, but we have never had one, at least since Washington, whose fundamental character was solider and more admirable.

  H. L. Mencken

  Character, Two, Profound

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.226, Vintage

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• Setting aside the vast herd which shows no definable character at all, it seems to me that the minority distinguished by what is commonly regarded as an excess of sin is very much more admirable than the minority distinguished by an excess of virtue. My experience of the world has taught me that the average wine-bibbler is a far better fellow than the average prohibitionist, and that the average rogue is better company than the average poor drudge, and that the worst white-slave trader of my acquaintance is a decenter man than the best vice crusader.

  H. L. Mencken

  Wine, Character, Men

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• Hatred of domestic work is a natural and admirable result of civilization.

  Rebecca West

  Home, Civilization, House

  Rebecca West (1982). “The young Rebecca: writings of Rebecca West, 1911-17”, Not Avail

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• The emperor of the East was no longer guided by the wisdom and authority of his elder brother, whose death happened towards the end of the preceding year: and, as the distressful situation of the Goths required an instant and peremptory decision, he was deprived of the favourite resource of feeble and timid minds; who consider the use of dilatory and ambiguous measures as the most admirable efforts of consummate prudence.

  Edward Gibbon

  Brother, Years, History

  Edward Gibbon (2008). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.94, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Tis an admirable thing to see how some people will labour to find out terms that may obscure a plain sense, like a gentleman I knew, who would never say 'the weather grew cold,' but that 'winter begins to salute us.' I have no patience for such coxcombs.

  Dorothy Osborne

  Winter, Weather, People

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• War, like all other situations of danger and of change, calls forth the exertion of admirable intellectual qualities and great virtues, and it is only by dwelling on these, and keeping out of sight the sufferings and sorrows, and all the crimes and evils that follow in its train, that it has its glory in the eyes of men.

  William C. Bryant

  War, Eye, Men

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• One admirable trait in women is their lack of illusions about themselves. They never reason about their most blameworthy actions; their feelings carry them away. Even their dissimulation comes naturally to them, and in them crime is free of all baseness. Most of the time they simply do not know how it happened.

  Honore de Balzac

  Women, Feelings, Action

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• There are different kinds of actors, and movie actors tend to be exceedingly precise and mechanical in a way that's really admirable for me to watch. You always learn from them.

  Ana Gasteyer

  Different, Watches, Actors

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Bad as "independence" is, the main fault of the Federal Reserve System - an admirable system if conducted in the public interest - is that too much power and control rests in the hands of people whose private interests are directly affected by the Federal Reserves' actions.

  Wright Patman

  Wisdom, Hands, People

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• There is always some accident in the best things, whether thoughts or expressions or deeds. The memorable thought, the happy expression, the admirable deed are only partly ours.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Art, Philosophy, Memorable

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.207, Courier Corporation

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• Of what use is it to please the herd? They are simply coarse animals - for all that is admirable in man is the artificial product of special breeding.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Animal, Men, Special

  Letter to James F. Morton (10 February 1923), published in "Selected Letters Vol. I", (p. 208), 1965.

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• Vuillard balances too far on the side of fantasy... the people in his pictures are not properly defined. As he's an admirable draughtsman it must be that he just doesn't want to give them mouths and hands and feet.

  Paul Signac

  Hands, Feet, People

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• Whatever you believe to be true and false, that proclaim to be true and false; whatever you think admirable and beautiful, that should be your model, even if all your friends and all the critics storm at you as a crotchet-monger and an eccentric.

  George Henry Lewes

  Beautiful, Believe, Thinking

  George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

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• Love with delight discourses in my mindUpon my lady's admirable gifts...Beyond the range of human intellect.

  Dante Alighieri

  Delight, Range, Intellect

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• I have already related to you great and admirable things; but, if you might be induced to adventure upon the hazard of believing some other divinity of this sacred Pantagruelion, I very willingly would tell it you. Believe it, if you will, or otherwise, believe it not, I care not which of them you do, they are both alike to me. It shall be sufficient for my purpose to have told you the truth, and the truth I will tell you.

  Francois Rabelais

  Believe, Adventure, Hazards

  Francois Rabelais (2006). “Gargantua and Pantagruel: Easyread Large Edition”, p.480, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• What is in reality cowardice and faithlessness, we call charity, and consider it the part of benevolence sometimes to forgive men's evil practice for the sake of their accurate faith, and sometimes to forgive their confessed heresy for the sake of their admirable practice.

  John Ruskin

  Reality, Men, Practice

  John Ruskin (1853). “The Stones of Venice”, p.109

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• Americans were people who wanted to leave every place better than they found it, to leave every man more of a man than they found him. ... Americans could open doors to almost all that was admirable - it was their misfortune, not their fault, that movies and victrolas and advertisements squeezed in when they opened the door.

  Stella Benson

  Men, Doors, People

  Stella Benson (1924). “Pipers and a Dancer”

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• I want to be both pathetic and admirable, I want to be at the same time a child and an adult. Thereby I gamble, I take a risk: for it is always possible that the other will simply ask no question whatever about these unaccustomed glasses; that the other will see, in the fact, no sign.

  Roland Barthes

  Children, Glasses, Risk

  Roland Barthes (1990). “A lover's discourse: fragments”, Penguin Books

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• Every brand of religion maintains, and is, a permanent mechanism for transmitting ideas and values - whether one regards those values as admirable or ridiculous. Secularist organizations, with their generally looser, nonhierarchical structures, lack the power to hand down and disseminate their heritage in such a systematic way.

  Susan Jacoby

  Hands, Organization, Ideas

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• I didn't get a chance to meet Glen [Beck] for this movie. I did meet him a few years ago, coincidentally, before any of this happened. But I've been familiar with his work, so I felt I wanted to get it right. I wanted to honor him. I respect him and I think the way he does his job is admirable. Yeah, there was an added incentive. I wouldn't call it pressure, but incentive perhaps.

  Zachary Quinto

  Jobs, Thinking, Years

  Source: screenrant.com

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