David Ansen Quotes

Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.

Were one merely to seek information, one should inquire of the man who hates, but if one wishes to know what truly is, one better ask the one who loves.

I love that perhaps we don't see the things that are there because we have no yardstick to see things by, to compare them.

Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.

Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

I like people that define their own values. I am much more interested in somebody who has their own definition of what they value, their own definition of what success is, their own definition of what love is.

Knowing is not understanding. There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.

Whoever said love is blind is dead wrong. Love is the only thing that lets us see each other with the remotest accuracy.

There are countless artists whose shoes I am not worthy to polish - whose prints would not pay the printer. The question of judgment is a puzzling one.

Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things that differ, and the difference of things that are alike.

The precision of naming takes away from the uniqueness of seeing.

Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.

My parents raised me to not ever look at race or color, so it doesn't have a big part in my self-identity.

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

I am whatever you say I am; if I wasn't, then why would you say I am.

I don't think a name defines the core of who you are.

Taste is a result of a thousand distastes.

We need to have a taste factor in our life. It isn't about what's popular; it's about what's really good.

There is one radical distinction between different minds … that some minds are stronger and apter to mark the difference of things, others to mark their resemblances.

There is a difference in what people are willing to consider, daytime versus nighttime.

We require, as a species, the difference between what is safe and unsafe to define ourselves. Be it in darkness or in light, where we are means nothing without the comparison to the other place - where we are not. And thus it is the difference between them that tells us who and what we are.

Luxury is not about the things that you own. It is about something that reflects your personal values, something that shows the choices that you have made in your life.

Just because you like something, that doesn't mean that you have a feel for it.

Love is our response to our highest values.

I am so small I can hardly be seen. How can this great love be inside me? Look at your eyes. They are small, but they see enormous things.