Admiration is our polite recognition of another’s resemblance to ourselves.
—Ambrose Bierce (1842–1913) American Short-story Writer, Journalist
We all admire the wisdom of people who come to us for advice.
—Arthur Helps (1813–75) British Essayist, Historian
It is better in some respects to be admired by those with whom you live,, than to be loved by them. And this is not on account of any gratification of vanity, but because admiration is so much more tolerant than love.
—Arthur Helps (1813–75) British Essayist, Historian
You always admire what you really don’t understand.
—Blaise Pascal (1623–62) French Mathematician, Physicist, Theologian
If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.
—Katharine Hepburn (1907–2003) American Actor, TV Personality
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
—Jean Cocteau (1889–1963) French Poet, Playwright, Film Director
One’s shadow grows larger than life when admired by the light of the moon.
—Chinese Proverb
The affections are the children of ignorance; when the horizon of our experience expands, and models multiply, love and admiration imperceptibly vanish.
—Benjamin Franklin (1706–90) American Political Leader, Inventor, Diplomat
While on a ladder, never step back to admire your work.
—Unknown
A student never forgets an encouraging private word, when it is given with sincere respect and admiration.
—William Lyon Phelps (1865–1943) American Literary Scholar, Academic
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 new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.
—Joseph Addison (1672–1719) English Essayist, Poet, Playwright, Politician
There is a wide difference between admiration and love. The sublime, which is the cause of the former, always dwells on great objects and terrible; the latter on small ones and pleasing; we submit to what we admire, but we love what submits to us: in one case we are forced, in the other we are flattered, into compliance.
—Edmund Burke (1729–97) British Philosopher, Statesman
Everyone admires his own character.
—Turkish Proverb
There is a pleasure in admiration; and this it is which properly causeth admiration, when we discover a great deal in an object which we understand to be excellent; and yet we see more beyond that, which our understandings cannot fully reach and comprehend.
—John Tillotson
A fool admires himself most when he has done foolish things.
—Chinese Proverb
Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German Philosopher, Scholar, Writer
Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
—Alexander Pope (1688–1744) English Poet
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
—F. H. Bradley (1846–1924 ) British Idealist Philosopher
Human affairs inspire in noble hearts only two feelings—admiration or pity.
—Anatole France (1844–1924) French Novelist
Bad artists always admire each other’s work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected.
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish Poet, Playwright
The youth, intoxicated with his admiration of a hero, fails to see, that it is only a projection of his own soul, which he admires
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher
Every fool finds a greater one to admire them.
—Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux (1636–1711) French Poet, Satirist, Literary Critic
Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher
A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it.
—Israel Zangwill (1864–1926) English Playwright, Novelist, Zionist Activist
Distance is a great promoter of admiration!.
—Denis Diderot (1713–84) French Philosopher, Writer
What the eye does not admire the heart does not desire.
—Common Proverb
We always love those who admire us; we do not always love those whom we admire.
—Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613–80) French Writer
We admire what we do not understand.
—Indian Proverb
By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
—Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) Bengali Poet, Polymath
We always like those who admire us, but we do not always like those whom we admire.
—Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613–80) French Writer
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