Quotes on Admiration

You become like what you worship. When you gaze in awe, admiration, and wonder at something or someone, you begin to take on something of the character of the object of your worship.

We must always remember with gratitude and admiration the first sailors who steered their vessels through storms and mists, and increased our knowledge of the lands of ice in the South.

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.

He who understands Archimedes and Apollonius will admire less the achievements of the foremost men of later times.

It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent ambitious, that the harvest is still so abundant.

If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.

He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.

Do not be jealous of others' good qualities, but out of admiration adopt them yourself.

In spite of my great admiration for individual splendid talents I do not accept the star system. Collective creative effort is the root of our kind of art. That requires ensemble acting and whoever mars that ensemble is committing a crime not only against his comrades but also against the very art of which he is the servant.

Beauty stands In the admiration only of weak minds Led captive.

Fools admire, but men of sense approve.

I have unbounded admiration for the nude. I worship it like a god.

Distance is a great promoter of admiration.

Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.

It is like most other ancient books - a mingling of falsehood and truth, of philosophy and folly - all written by men, and most of the men only partially civilized. Some of its laws are good - some infinitely barbarous. None of the miracles related were performed. . . . Take out the absurdities, the miracles, all that pertains to the supernatural - all the cruel and barbaric laws - and to the remainder I have no objection. Neither would I have for it any great admiration.

Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.

To me, science is an expression of the human spirit, which reaches every sphere of human culture. It gives an aim and meaning to existence as well as a knowledge, understanding, love, and admiration for the world. It gives a deeper meaning to morality and another dimension to esthetics.

It is in times of difficulty that great nations like great men display the whole energy of their character and become an object of admiration to posterity.

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

One who faces and who fears the right things and from the right motive, in the right way and at the right time, posseses character worthy of our trust and admiration.

We live by Admiration, Hope, and Love;_x000D_ _x000D_ And, even as these are well and wisely fixed,_x000D_ _x000D_ In dignity of being we ascend.