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«There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance - that principle is contempt prior to investigation»
Author: Herbert Spencer
(Philosopher)
| About:
Arguments,
Information,
Principles
| Keywords:
Against the man, arguments, bar, barred, barring, contempt, everlasting, fail, information, investigation, investigations, principle, prior, proof
«Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
contempt, kissing, lady, lip, scorn
«There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.»
«They are for religion when in rags and contempt, but I am for him when he walks in his golden slippers in the sunshine and with applause.»
«The social principles of Christianity preach cowardice, self-contempt, abasement, submission, humility, in a word all the qualities of the canaille»
Author: Karl Marx
(Philosopher)
| About:
Christianity,
Religion
| Keywords:
abasement, contempt, cowardice, humility, preach, social, submission, submissions, The Social
«There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt»
«The surest aid in combating the male's disease of self-contempt is to be loved by a clever woman.»
«That for which we find words is something already dead in our hearts. There is always a kind of contempt in the act of speaking.»
«Speak of the moderns without contempt and of the ancients without idolatry; judge them all by their merits, but not by their age»
Author: Lord Chesterfield
(Diplomat, Statesman, Wit)
| About:
Age,
Judgement
| Keywords:
ancients, contempt, idolatries, idolatry, merits, moderns, Modern Age, The Modern Age
«Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes the edge off admiration»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
| Keywords:
admiration, breed, contempt, edge, familiarity, the edge
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