Quotes 121 till 140 of 149.
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Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions, but those who kindly reprove thy faults.
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This miserable state is borne by the wretched souls of those who lived without disgrace and without praise.
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Thought is a process of exaggeration. The refusal to exaggerate is not infrequently an alibi for the disinclination to think or praise.
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Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike;
One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.The Works of Ben Jonson, First Folio LXI, To Fool, or Knave, lines 1-2. -
To praise it would amount to praising myself. For the entire content of the work... coincides almost exactly with my own meditations which have occupied my mind for the past thirty or thirty-five years.
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Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.
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Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.
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We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.
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We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.
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We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.
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We increase whatever we praise. The whole creation responds to praise, and is glad.
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We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.
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What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise - although the philosophers generally call it ''recognition''!
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Whatever is in any way beautiful has its source of beauty in itself, and is complete in itself; praise forms no part of it. So it is none the worse nor the better for being praised.
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When a man wants your advice he generally wants your praise.
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When I make a feast I would my guests should praise it, not the cooks.
Epigrams (1610) -
When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
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Why level downward to our dullest perception always, and praise that as common sense? The commonest sense is the sense of men asleep, which they express by snoring.
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You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.
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