Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.
Benjamin Franklin
Admiration begins where acquaintance ceases
Samuel Johnson
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.
Carl Sandburg
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
Jean Cocteau
Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.
Joseph Addison
Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are charms made only for distant admiration.
Samuel Johnson
Distance is a great promoter of admiration!
Denis Diderot
You always admire what you really don`t understand.
Blaise Pascal
We always love those who admire us; we do not always love those whom we admire.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
Blaise Pascal
Admiration. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.
Ambrose Bierce
We all admire the wisdom of people who come to us for advice.
Arthur Helps
Maybe you are the cool generation If coolness means a capacity to stay calm and use your head in the service of ends passionately believed in, then it has my admiration.
Kingman Brewster, Jr.