#reverence

Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence. ↗

— Aristotle

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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. ↗

— Aristotle

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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. ↗

— John Adams

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That sense of sacredness, that thinking in generations, must begin with reverence for this earth. ↗

— Paul Tsongas

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Reverence reduces hostility. ↗

— Toba Beta

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The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring. ↗

— Robertson Davies

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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. ↗

— David Herbert Donald

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

— Bodhidharma

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

— Desiderius Erasmus

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It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it. ↗

— Jacob Bronowski

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