Attitudes

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.

-- Andre Gide

Prejudice is the child of ignorance.

-- William Hazlitt

When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.

-- Samuel Hoffenstein

A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.

-- Kin Hubbard

The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

-- William James

You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.

-- Stanislaw J. Lec

Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.

-- Ralph Marston

Criticism is prejudice made plausible.

-- H. L. Mencken

My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.

-- Vladimir Nabokov

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.

-- Friedrich Nietzsche

Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

-- Friedrich Nietzsche

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