Don't Despise Quotes

#1. But don't despise error. When touched by genius, when led by chance, the most superior truth can come into being from even the most foolish error. The important inventions which have been brought about in every realm of science from false hypotheses number in the hundreds, indeed in the thousands.

Stefan Zweig

#2. What you repeatedly do carries the clay to mold you into who you eventually become. Don't despise any tiny minute of the day; each counts so much!

Israelmore Ayivor

#3. Don't despise empiric truth. Lots of things work in practice for which the laboratory has never found proof.

Martin H. Fischer

#4. Don't despise people because of their defects or because of their lack of talents and gifts. Imagine if people did it for you, how many friends would you be left with?

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#5. The mind of man has no defense To equal plain, old common sense. This homely virtue don't despise, If you would be happy as well as wise.

Don Herold

#6. I know the compassion of others is a relief at first. I don't despise it. But it can't quench pain, it slips through your soul as through a sieve. And when our suffering has been dragged from one pity to another, as from one mouth to another, we can no longer respect or love it.

Georges Bernanos

#7. I don't despise, because no-one should live rent-free inside your head.

Anne Robinson

#8. Greatness is sifted through the grind, therefore don't despise the hard work now for surely it will be worth it in the end.

Sanjo Jendayi

#9. Don't despise the little steps you know you can take every day. There are tiny miracles in each and every one of them.

Israelmore Ayivor

#10. Friendship is something that gets harder to understand, every damn year of my life.Friendship is like a kind of algebra test that nobody passes. In my worst moods, I think the best you can say is that a friend is anyone you don't despise.

Gregory David Roberts

#11. Don't despise your contributions to Humanity. Every little kind deed counts.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#12. I don't despise you for what you allowed to happen to me. I despise you because when I was released, you refused to be found and I needed you more than anything in my life. Not to mend my broken bones, Arjuro. I needed my brother to mend my broken spirit.

Melina Marchetta

#13. I don't despise 'Don Quixote,' but it is a book I don't ... get. I'll have to come back it. Maybe there'll be a gateway story that opens it up for me; that happened for me with 'Paradise Lost' and the 'His Dark Materials' trilogy.

Helen Oyeyemi

#14. I don't despise people.

Will.i.am

#15. We say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says, chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a discord to our ears. Don't faint when you are rebuked, and don't despise the chastening of the Lord. In your patience possess your souls.

Oswald Chambers

#16. Don't despise little things that contain tiny miracles. Enjoy little actions!

Israelmore Ayivor

#17. Don't despise those little things you can do well; they contain tiny miracles that can amaze you and you will change the world. Be a world changer in your own way! We look up to you!

Israelmore Ayivor

#18. I really don't despise anyone. But there is a list of a half dozen people I would prefer never to hear from or see again.

Graydon Carter

#19. Work is a sacrament. Don't despise anyone's.

Michael Ventura

#20. But actual rapists, men who are usually known to (and often loved by) their victims? Men who are sometimes our sports heroes, political leaders, buddies, boyfriends and fathers? Evidence suggests we don't despise them nearly as much as we should.

Jaclyn Friedman

#21. I despise that he knows it and I don't. Makes him the better man for her in this situation. I want to be the better man for her in every situation.

Karen Marie Moning

#22. I know you despise me; allow me to say, it is because you don't understand me.

Elizabeth Gaskell

#23. Ugarte: You despise me, don't you?
Rick: If I gave you any thought I probably would.

Julius J. Epstein

#24. However tiny or ramshackle they may be, don't ever despise the stairs which take you up to the higher levels!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#25. Nothing that we despise in other men is inherently absent from ourselves. We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or don't do, and more in light of what they suffer.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#26. I always fear dogma. I don't like anything that's dogmatic because it becomes purely religious again and I despise any form of organized religion.

Justin Broadrick

#27. I suppose that the main benefit of being rich (over just being independent) is to be able to despise rich people (a good concentration of whom you find in glitzy ski resorts) without any sour grapes. It is even sweeter when these farts don't know that you are richer than they are.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#28. What ambiguity there is in exalted things. We despise them a little.

Don DeLillo

#29. I think that when small-minded people envy and despise, then they will mock, thinking it their only weapon. I am not, I hope, a small-minded person. I will not mock you. I'll tell you straight to your face that I don't trust you and can't trust you...

Kate Elliott

#30. Never despise small beginnings, and don't belittle your own accomplishments. Remember them and use them as inspiration as you go on to the next thing. When you venture outside your comfort zone, wherever the starting point may be, it's kind of a big deal.

Chris Guillebeau

#31. Yes, Lise. You see, your question whether we do not despise that unhappy man by dissecting his soul was the question of a person who has suffered a lot. I'm afraid I don't know how to put it properly, but a person to whom such questions occur is himself capable of suffering.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#32. You wrong me. You wrong me, Mole. I loathe and despise this human trait of hounding smaller creatures to death, with large numbers opposed against one solitary animal. But, don't you see, it's the law of the wild. This poor fox is sacrificed today to the humans' cruelty.

Colin Dann

#33. Texting is a fundamentally sneaky form of communication, which we should despise, but it is such a boon we don't care. We are all sneaks now.

Lynne Truss

#34. A person will buy something they really don't need off of a salesperson they really like before they buy something they desperately need off of someone they despise. ... Johnny Flora

Johnny Flora

#35. In our house we don't use words like "despise" and 'hate,' we say "strongly dislike."

Madonna Ciccone

#36. There are two kinds of humanity, those who dream and those who don't, and both tend to despise, or to tolerate, the other.

Doris Lessing

#37. No, I don't want to exercise all the time. I still despise it, not at all.

Star Jones

#38. Forgiven? No. I am a bad, low woman; I despise myself and don't attempt to justify myself. It's not my husband but myself I have deceived. And not only just now; I have been deceiving myself for a long time.

Anton Chekhov

#39. Grassroots techies - the mostly unknown people who write code and start companies that don't make the headlines - hate, loathe, and despise Microsoft. At technology conferences, it is the devil, or the guaranteed laugh line. Its products are mocked, its business practices booed.

Virginia Postrel

#40. He shushed her. "Goodnight. We're trapped together in a small, dark space. For the moment, we're getting on as well as could possibly be expected. I don't think this is the time to remind me of my many valid reasons to resent your presence and despise everything you stand for.

Tessa Dare

#41. I just can't feel lukewarm about a character. I either despise her, admire her, or don't understand her and want to understand her.

Vera Farmiga

#42. Can't really despise people you don't know.

Richard D. James

#43. It's the masters who despise the slaves, and the slaves who hate the masters. I don't know who is which. Maybe it doesn't fit here. Maybe it does. I don't know

Ayn Rand

#44. I'm sure you despise me," she sobbed, looking up at him through tearful eyes.
"Despise you?!" Langdon exclaimed. "I don't have the slightest idea who you are! All you've done is lie to me!"
"I know," she said softly. "I'm sorry. I've been trying to do the right thing.

Dan Brown

#45. What a reflection on yourself to despise those who admire you! That said, one's usually of two minds: 1. You're ludicrously overdoing it; 2. You don't know the half of it.

Eva Brann

#46. I don't mean you should despise people for being weak, if it's a kind of weakness they can't help. But when they're weak on purpose, it's another thing. When they don't even try. When they let people hurt them and don't fight back. It's gross. It's letting down the whole human race.

Mary Gaitskill

#47. I don't know any other way to live but to wake up every day armed with my convictions, not yielding them to the threat of danger and to the power and force of people who might despise me.

Wole Soyinka

#48. However steep or ramshackle they may be, don't ever despise the stairs which take you up to higher levels!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#49. I tell you what, I don't like a hostile red skin any more than you do. And when they are hostile, I've fought 'em, hard as any man. But I never yet drew a bead on a squaw or papoose, and I despise the man who would.

Kit Carson

#50. Acheron: Yeah well, I don't like talking about myself and I despise personal questions.
Tory: Fine. All I want is that brain of yours for a few

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#51. The Q I loathe and despise, the Q every single writer I know loathes and despises, is this one: 'Where,' the reader asks, 'do you get your ideas?' It's a simple question, and my usual response is a kind of helpless, 'I don't know.'

Ayelet Waldman

#52. Never despise what you don't understand.

William Penn

#53. Men, you don't have to curse God openly to despise Him. All you need to do is tell Him that you don't think much of Him by giving Him your leftovers.

Tony Evans

#54. You don't know what it's like to worry you'll start to despise the people who help you, the ones you should love, because they're healthy and you're not, because they're kind and you're this angry, frustrated . . . thing.

Tracy Guzeman

#55. Without standards, you end up accepting any morsel of paying work that comes your way, like a hungry mouse devours a crumb. You remain stuck in that gut-tightening, demoralizing position of doing work you despise, for clients you don't like, just because you need the money.

Pete Savage

#56. Do well to impress; don't depress, suppress or oppress anyone. Inspire a soul; never despise!

Israelmore Ayivor

#57. The fact that I despise religion doesn't mean I don't esteem it highly.

Eugene Ionesco

#58. I despise shows that present friendship where you're always there for each other and really strong because I don't know anyone like that. I mean, I've got great friends, but I can go months without seeing them because I think, 'I just can't deal with having to give you anything.'

Sharon Horgan

#59. They don't ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise.

Boris Pasternak

#60. I don't like guys who are bad kissers. I actually despise them. They make me feel as if, as if I'm trapped. And I hate being trapped.

Ritika Chhabra

#61. Initially, the world forces you to appease it and conform. If you do so, they despise you. If you stick your gun, finally, they will celebrate you. So, don't give in too soon.

Assegid Habtewold

#62. Nowadays I just don't care; I've taken the Frank Zappa stance. I am who I am! Some love me, some loathe me, some respect me and some despise me. But after all that's been, I still love the insane! As they're exciting, dangerous and highly explosive! For me mad dogs are gentlemen.

Stephen Richards

#63. Don't you think it makes them stronger when you give them someone to despise?

Elizabeth Wein