Despise Quotes - Page 9

• It is a melancholy experience for a professional mathematician to find himself writing about mathematics. The function of a mathematician is to do something, to prove new theorems, to add to mathematics, and not to talk about what he or other mathematicians have done. Statesmen despise publicists, painters despise art-critics, and physiologists, physicists, or mathematicians have usually similar feelings: there is no scorn more profound, or on the whole more justifiable, than that of the men who make for the men who explain. Exposition, criticism, appreciation, is work for second-rate minds.

  G. H. Hardy

  Appreciation, Art, Writing

  G. H. Hardy (2012). “A Mathematician's Apology”, p.61, Cambridge University Press

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• That's another thing the #NeverTrump-ers can't figure out and despise. But the media did, too. The media was fascinated. [Donald] Trump was ratings. He was money, and still is.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Media, Rating, Figures

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The theoretician believes in logic and believes that he despises dreams, intuition, and poetry. He does not recognize that these three fairies have only disguised themselves in order to dazzle him.... He does not know that he owes his greatest discoveries to them.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Dream, Believe, Ignorance

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• It's likely that people will say we're all interested in destroying - ISIL is a threat to everybody. There isn't one country in the region that doesn't despise what ISIL stands for and is doing and that doesn't want to eliminate them.

  John F. Kerry

  Country, People, Want

  "Interview With Nicolle Wallace, Mike Barnicle, Mark Halperin, Richard Haass, and Katty Kay of MSNBC's Morning Joe". 2009-2017.state.gov. September 29, 2015.

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• Do not despise your situation; in it you must act, suffer, and conquer. From every point on earth we are equally near to heaven and to the infinite.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Heaven, Suffering, Earth

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• The violent illiteracies of the graffiti, the clenched silence of the adolescent, the nonsense cries from the stage-happening, are resolutely strategic. The insurgent and the freak-out have broken off discourse with a cultural system which they despise as a cruel, antiquated fraud. They will not bandy words with it. Accept, even momentarily, the conventions of literate linguistic exchange, and you are caught in the net of the old values, of the grammars that can condescend or enslave.

  George Steiner

  Broken, Silence, Society

  George Steiner (1987). “George Steiner: A Reader”, p.432, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• I would tell your generation, wherever you are on the totem poll - whether you're halfway there or at the bottom, don't despise small beginnings; small beginnings get you ready for great things.

  T. D. Jakes

  Halfway There, Generations, Totems

  "T.D. Jakes Talks: Second Chances, Humble Beginnings & Knowing Your Worth". Interview with Zon D'Amour, lasentinel.net. September 21, 2016.

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• We are now living in a jungle where the strong eats the weak,we are not better than the Arabs to despise them.

  Ralph Fiennes

  Strong, Weak, Jungle

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• Turn your eyes whither you will, enter into whatever temple you please, you will find there on the very threshold Prophecy and Sacrament .... whoever despises these two things, infallibly bends towards earth, knowing nothing of God but his name, and holding with him no other relations than ingratitude and forgetfulness.

  Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

  Eye, Knowing Nothing, Names

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• I care not whether the soldiers are of Milesian, Teutonic, African or Angelo-Saxon descent. I despise the principle that make a difference between them in the hour of battle and of death.

  Thaddeus Stevens

  Differences, Soldier, Making A Difference

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• In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a writeched life

  Martial

  Adversity, Brave, Easy

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• The first thing Islam does is to destroy the self image of the believers. It convinces them that without Islam they are worthless creatures only fit for hellfire. It tells them that their culture is jahelyyah (ignorance) and their ancestral religion was taaghoti (satanic). They are made to despise their identity and selfhood and seek their glory in their submission to Islam and slavery to its deity who was Muhammad's own alter ego.

  Ali Sina

  Ignorance, Self, Ego

  Source: myislam.dk

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• Nothing will demoralize the nation so much as that we should learn to despise labour.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Should, Nations, Labour

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• Our children should not be so taught as to despise labour.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Children, Taught, Should

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.175, Rajpal & Sons

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• You're obliged to pretend respect for people and institutions you think absurd. You live attached in a cowardly fashion to moral and social conventions you despise, condemn, and know lack all foundation.

  Octave Mirbeau

  Fashion, Anger, Thinking

  Octave Mirbeau (1989). “The Torture Garden”, Re-Search Publications

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• I have no evangelical feelings about art at all. I despise art education. Art doesn't lend itself to education. There is no knowledge there. It's a set of propositions about how things should look.

  Dave Hickey

  Art, Feelings, Looks

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. November 2007.

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• In our house we don't use words like "despise" and 'hate,' we say "strongly dislike."

  Madonna Ciccone

  Hate, House, Dislike

  "The Unapologetic Madonna Interview: The Queen Of Pop On Grindr, Song Leaks, Her Kids, And More". Interview with Dan Avery, www.newnownext.com. March 10, 2015.

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• In truth, knowledge is a great and very useful quality; those who despise it give evidence enough of their stupidity. Yet I do not set its value at that extreme measure that some attribute to it.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Giving, Stupidity, Quality

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.319, Stanford University Press

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• Those that despise peace and admire war are crushed under the boots of the war!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Peace, War, Boots

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• What have I to do with millions [of people]? The eighty I know despise me.

  Charlotte Bronte

  People, Knows, Eighty

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• If one believes philosophers, then what we call religion is only a deliberately popularized or an instinctively artless philosophy. Poets seem to consider religion rather as a variation of poetry which by misjudging its proper beautiful game takes itself too seriously and one-sidedly. Philosophy, however, admits and recognizes that it can begin and complete itself only with religion. Poetry seeks only to strive for the infinite and despises worldly utility and culture, which are the true antitheses of religion. Eternal peace among artists is thus not far away.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Beautiful, Philosophy, Believe

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• If you would have a boy to despise his mother, let her keep him at home, and spend her life in petting him up, and slaving to indulge his follies and caprices.

  Anne Bronte

  Mother, Home, Boys

  Anne Bronte (2016). “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Diversion Illustrated Classics)”, p.40, Diversion Books

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• Before putting yourself in peril, it is necessary to foresee and fear it; but when one is there, nothing remains but to despise it.

  Francois Fenelon

  Courage, Peril, Remains

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• It is a proof of nobility of mind to despise injuries.

  Seneca the Younger

  Mind, Injury, Proof

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• I'm convinced that some of our greatest and most influential teachers show up in our lives disguised as people we resent or even despise.

  Wayne Dyer

  Teacher, People, Influential

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