A Quote by Maria Konnikova

Admiration is seen as a noble sentiment - we admire people for admiring others, detecting, in their admiration, a suggestion of taste and humility.

Maria Konnikova

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Admiration Admire Admiring Humility Noble Others People Seen Sentiment Suggestion Taste

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Maria Konnikova
American - Writer
Born: 1984

The power of admiring whatever is deserving of admiration, the nice and quick perception of the beautiful and the true, is one of the highest and noblest of our faculties, born of taste, and knowledge, and wisdom, or rather it is taste, and wisdom, and knowledge, in one rare and great combination.

Mary Russell Mitford

I was a young boy when I met the Surrealists and the Dadaists. I admired them, and that is what they taught me: to admire. Admiration is very important. People who are unable to admire others lose an important part of their soul. My soul developed from a very early age through encounters with admired people.

Stephane Hessel

Drawing must seek interest, not admiration. Because admiration wears quickly.

John Howe

Drawing must seek for interest, not for admiration. Because admiration wears quickly.

John Howe

I really think admiration for nature can save us. I mean true admiration, to the point of not letting it be harmed.

Alice Walker

Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There's only one passion in most artists more violent than their desire for admiration: their fear of identifying the nature of such admiration as they do receive.

Ayn Rand

Benign envy can sound a lot like admiration. The difference is that, while admiration feels good, envy is painful.

Maria Konnikova

We imagine that the admiration of the works of celebrated men has become common, because the admiration of their names has become so.

William Hazlitt

Criticism precedes admiration and – like it or not – goes hand in hand with success. Keep pouring on the success, and sooner or later, the very same people who were putting you down will be admiring you for what you have done.

Grant Cardone

What a strange vanity painting is; it attracts admiration by resembling the original, we do not admire.

Blaise Pascal

I have a huge admiration for the House of Lords, I have a huge admiration for the people who work in the House of Lords, they're great public servants and they do an absolutely tremendous job.

John Major

Transform jealousy to admiration, and what you admire will become part of your life.

Yoko Ono

Putting something called Nature on a pedestal and admiring it from afar does for the environment what patriarchy does for the figure of Woman. It is paradoxical act of sadistic admiration.