“I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don’t know where I would be without it.”
Letter, (1950); as quoted in Thomas Mann — The Birth of Criticism (1987) by Marcel Reich-Ranicki
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German novelist, and 1929 Nobel Prize laureate 1875–1955Related quotes
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“The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.”
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“Poirot," I said. "I have been thinking."
"An admirable exercise my friend. Continue it.”
Agatha Christie book Peril at End House
Source: Peril at End House
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1920s, The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism (1920)
“When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.”
Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907–1972) Polish-American Conservative Judaism Rabbi
Variant: When I was young, I used to admire intelligent people; as I grow older, I admire kind people.