Reverence Quotes

There is some sadness for me now about acting because it used to be that there was a reverence for actors.

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.

The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth, and the Native American shared this elemental ethic: The land was alive to his loving touch, and he, its son, was brother to all creatures.

If only your pure and clean mind could touch me, dear Haydn, nobody has a greater reverence for you than I have.

I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.

Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.

If you see a philosopher determining all things by means of right reason, him you shall reverence: he is a heavenly being and not of this earth.

When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.

Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt.

The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.

The eyes of a poet discover in each person a unique and irreplaceable humanity. While arrogant intellect seeks to control and manipulate the world, the poetic spirit bows with reverence before its mysteries.

The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.

It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence.

Dread lord and cousin, may the almighty preserve your reverence and lordship in long life and good fortune.

We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind.

Fullness of knowledge always means some understanding of the depths of our ignorance; and that is always conducive to humility and reverence.

The trick with computers I think, is to approach old and new things with the same reverence as you would like your favourite chair and not be seduced by the constant innovation otherwise you never do anything.

Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us?

Reverence is fatal to literature.

At the beginning, Lincoln was so inexperienced he had reverence for military expertise, not realizing that there wasn't any military expertise, that the most anybody had commanded up to that point had been somebody, some troops in the Mexican War, and it had been years ago.

Right now my mind is on the people who stole our instruments, and, specifically, the person with my guitar, which will no doubt end its days having Green Day songs worked out on it. A better fate was deserved - and while the reverence given to guitars annoys me, I shall miss it.

Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.

Woman must not accept; she must challenge. She must not be awed by that which has been built up around her; she must reverence that woman in her which struggles for expression.

By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.

Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal.

Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it, for, with the banishment of night from the experience of man, there vanishes as well a religious emotion, a poetic mood, which gives depth to the adventure of humanity.