We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We hate those who will not take our advice, and despise them who do.
David Sarnoff

We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.
Charles Caleb Colton

What do you despise? By this are you truly known.
Frank Herbert

What do you despise? By this you are truly known.
Michelangelo

When you locate good in yourself, approve of it with determination. When you locate evil in yourself, despise it as something detestable.
Xun Zi

Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.
Kahlil Gibran

Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle to attain.
Mary Wollstonecraft

You have discovered so much kindness and good will to those you thought were oppressed, and had no helper, that I am sure you will not despise what I have wrote, if you judge it will be of any service to them.
Jupiter Hammon