“Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.” – Benjamin Franklin

“Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of paradise, and the slaves of their own vaunts” – Francis Bacon Sr.

“My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.” – Albert Einstein

“The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.” – Carl Sandburg

“Don’t accept your dog’s admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.” – Ann Landers

“If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it” – Albert Einstein

“To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind” – Theophile Gautier