Quotes with ashamed

  • Now, being a girl, I was ashamed of my body and my lack of strength. So I tried to be a man. I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
  • Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values than the human imaginative values which science has evolved.
  • I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it.
  • Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.
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  • John Abbott ''How do you know so much about everything?'' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was ''By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.
    John Abbott
    Canadian lawyer and politician (1821 - 1893)
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  • Robin George Collingwood What a man is ashamed of is always at bottom himself; and he is ashamed of himself at bottom always for being afraid.
    Robin George Collingwood
    English philosopher, historian and archaeologist (1889 - 1943)
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  • Alexander Pope A man should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu A man that is ashamed of passions that are natural and reasonable is generally proud of those that are shameful and silly.
    Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
    English writer (1689 - 1762)
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  • Bryant H. McGill An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani And they said if we help with the crisis, they would do a lot of positive acts. After we helped in those crises, they showed negative acts and the Japanese and Turks were ashamed.
    Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
    Iranian politician and writer (1934 - 2017)
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  • Bernard Mandeville Ashamed of the many frailties they feel within, all men endeavor to hide themselves, their ugly nakedness, from each other, and wrapping up the true motives of their hearts in the specious cloak of sociableness, and their concern for the public good, they are in hopes of concealing their filthy appetites and the deformity of their desires.
    Bernard Mandeville
    British writer and artist (1670 - 1733)
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  • Horace Mann Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.
    Horace Mann
    American educator (1796 - 1859)
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  • Solomon Schechter By vulgarity I mean that vice of civilization which makes man ashamed of himself and his next of kin, and pretend to be somebody else.
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  • Thomas De Quincey Cows are amongst the gentlest of breathing creatures; none show more passionate tenderness to their young when deprived of them; and, in short, I am not ashamed to profess a deep love for these quiet creatures.
    Thomas De Quincey
    British writer (1785 - 1859)
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  • Jean Genet Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.
    Jean Genet
    French playwright and author (1910 - 1986)
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  • George Orwell England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Anthony Trollope I ain't a bit ashamed of anything.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • John Locke I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits.
    John Locke
    English philosopher (1632 - 1704)
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  • Burning Spear I feel that no one should be ashamed or have fear or doubt within themselves when they speak about the roots or Africa wherein I and I originate from. It's like an individual who tries to disown himself, and to me, it is a form of defeat by disowning yourself.
    Burning Spear
    Jamaican reggae singer-songwriter, vocalist and musician (1945 - )
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  • Anthony Weiner I have made terrible mistakes that have hurt the people that I cared about the most, and I am terribly sorry. I am deeply ashamed of my terrible judgment and my actions.
    Anthony Weiner
    American politician (1964 - )
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  • Sidonie Gabrielle Colette I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it.
    Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
    French writer (1873 - 1954)
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  • Jonathan Swift I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Seneca I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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