Admiration Quotes

To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind

Theophile Gautier

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.