Quotes with shame

  • To be fond of learning is near to wisdom; to practice with vigor is near to benevolence; and to be conscious of shame is near to fortitude. He who knows these three things
  • You cannot talk about race without talking about privilege. And when people start talking about privilege, they get paralyzed by shame.
  • There is no shame like poor shame. It can make you warm and charming, bitter and resentful, all at once.
  • Men walk this tightrope where any sign of weakness illicits shame, and so they're afraid to make themselves vulnerable for fear of looking weak.
  • My husband's a pediatrician, so he and I talk about parenting all the time. You can't raise children who have more shame resilience than you do.
  • 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.
  • Money was made, not to command our will, But all out lawful pleasure to fulfil. Shame and woe to use, if we our wealth obey; The horse doth with the horseman run away.
  • Positiveness is an absurd foible. If you are in the right, it lessens your triumph; if in the wrong, it adds shame to your defeat.
  • Imagination cannot make fools wise, but it makes them happy, as against reason, which only makes its friends wretched: one covers them with glory, the other with shame.
  • The shame that arises from praise which we do not deserve often makes us do things we should otherwise never have attempted.
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  • Confucius To be fond of learning is near to wisdom; to practice with vigor is near to benevolence; and to be conscious of shame is near to fortitude. He who knows these three things
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Robert Burton A nightingale dies for shame if another bird sings better.
    The Anatomy of Melancholy Part I, sect. 2,3,6
    Robert Burton
    English clergyman and writer (1577 - 1640)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Being ignorant is not so much a shame as being unwilling to learn.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Carl Sandburg Shame is the feeling you have when you agree with the woman who loves you that you are the man she thinks you are.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Jean Genet A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze, friendly, almost gentle.
    Jean Genet
    French playwright and author (1910 - 1986)
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  • Elie Wiesel As long as one dissident is in prison, our freedom will not be true. As long as one child is hungry, our lives will be filled with anguish and shame.
    Nobel acceptance speech (1986)
    Elie Wiesel
    Rumanian-born American Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich At best the family teaches the finest things human beings can learn from one another generosity and love. But it is also, all too often, where we learn nasty things like hate, rage and shame.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Sydney Smith Avoid shame but do not seek glory - nothing so expensive as glory.
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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  • Paul Klee Beauty is as relative as light and dark. Thus, there exists no beautiful woman, none at all, because you are never certain that a still far more beautiful woman will not appear and completely shame the supposed beauty of the first.
    Paul Klee
    Swiss artist (1879 - 1940)
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  • Bernard Mandeville Because Impudence is a Vice, it does not follow that Modesty is a Virtue; it is built upon Shame, a Passion in our Nature, and may be either Good or Bad according to the Actions perform'd from that Motive.
    The Fable of the Bees Remark C, p. 65
    Bernard Mandeville
    British writer and artist (1670 - 1733)
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  • Gloria Steinem But somewhere within each of us, buried at varying depths depending on the age and degree of neglect or abuse, shame or coercion we endured, there is a resistant, daydreaming, rebellious, creative, unique child -- a true self who is waiting.
    Revolution from Within (2012) 98
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Ellen Key Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffective besides. Neither shame nor physical pain have any other effect than a hardening one.
    Ellen Key
    Zweeds writer (1849 - 1926)
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  • Mark Twain Damn the subjunctive. It brings all our writers to shame.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Samuel Johnson Disappointment, when it involves neither shame nor loss, is as good as success; for it supplies as many images to the mind, and as many topics to the tongue.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Jean de la Fontaine Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
    Jean de la Fontaine
    French writer (1621 - 1695)
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  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Who's sorry for a gnat or girl?
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    English poet (1806 - 1861)
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  • William Cowper Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
    William Cowper
    English poet (1731 - 1800)
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  • Robert Half Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy.
    Robert Half
    American businessman, founder of Robert Half HR consulting firm
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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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  • A. E. Housman Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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