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" Quotes and Sayings About contempt

If I have brought any message today, it is this: Have the courage to have your wisdom regarded as stupidity. Be fools for Christ. And have the courage to suffer the contempt of the sophisticated world.

Today Courage Wisdom. Suffer
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Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.
Art Contempt Great Great Art
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No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.

Best Complete Contempt Education
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When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

Associate Bad Bad Men Combine
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Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.

Contempt Culture Require Disrespect
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When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man.

Wisest Priests Contemptible Look
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The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.

Bore Bored Contemptible Even
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Where aspirations outstrip opportunities, law-abiding society becomes the victim. Attitudes of contempt toward the law are forged in this crucible and form the inner core of the beliefs of organized adult crime.

Adult Aspirations Attitudes Becomes
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'I don't need brains,' says the billionaire contemptuously. 'I'm brainy enough myself!' The broker cries out in desperation, 'What, in heaven's name, do you want?' 'Goodness,' is the answer.

Answer Billionaire Brains Brainy
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There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt.

Surer Decay Country Religion
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What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?

Contempt Know Me Toward
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This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high.

Contempt Envy Grant High
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Although Alchemy has now fallen into contempt, and is even considered a thing of the past, the physicain should not be influenced by such judgements.

Alchemy Although Considered Contempt
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I have contempt for the Buharists and I pity Nigeria.
Contempt Buharist Pity Nigeria
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It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him; for the one is only belief - the other contempt.

Belief Better Contempt God
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Therefore, when I considered this carefully, the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my view, nearly induced me to abandon utterly the work I had begun.

Abandon Absurdity Apparent Because
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To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.

Laws Man Obey Contempt
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The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to women is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading.

Church teaching Women Last degree
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I do not look on self-indulgent, sensual people as worthy of my hatred; I simply look upon them with contempt for their poorness of character.

Self indulgent Worthy Hatred
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I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.
Admiration Contempt IWonder Motivation
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What looks like enjoyment is the sneer of contempt. That's not a smile.
Contempt Enjoyment Like Looks
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You can cite me for contempt, Your Honor. I don't care.
Care Cite Contempt Don't Care
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Whatsoever is done out of pure love, be it ever so little or contemptible in the sight of men, is wholly fruitful; for God measures more with how much love one worketh, than the amount he doeth.

Done Pure love Contemptible Men
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Before mass leaders seize the power to fit reality to their lies, their propaganda is marked by its extreme contempt for facts as such,

Mass leaders Power Lies Propaganda
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The contempt of money is no more a virtue than to wash one's hand is one; but one does not willingly shake hands with a man that never washes his.

Contempt Money Virtue Wash
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There is small risk a general will be regarded with contempt by those he leads, if, whatever he may have to preach, he shows himself best able to perform

Small risk A general Contempt Lead
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There is a common emotion we all recognize and have not yet named -- the happy anticipation of being able to feel contempt.

Common emotion Recognize Happy anticipation Feel contempt
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One can show one's contempt for the cruelty and stupidity of the world by making of one's life a poem of incoherence and absurdity.

One Show Contempt Cruelty
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Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.

Hatred An affair The heart Contempt
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Practice the vocabulary of love - unlearn the language of hate and contempt.

Practice The vocabulary Love Unlearn
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Corruption during this time and in any other time, must be condemned with the contempt it deserves.

Corruption This time Be condemned The contempt
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Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.

Familiarity Breed Contempt Admiration
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Love makes money-grabbing seem contemptible; love makes class prejudice impossible; love makes selfish ambition a thing to be despised; love converts enemies into friends.

Love Contemptible Ambition Friends
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Nothing that isn't a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.

Crime Contemtible World Inconsistency
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Approach as many moments as you can with curiosity not contempt.
Curiosity Contempt Moments
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