#reverence

Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence. ↗

— Plato

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Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery. ↗

— Richard Powers

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Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself. ↗

— Pythagoras

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Above all things, reverence yourself. ↗

— Pythagoras

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Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#know #learn #lies #life #never

I still went to church regularly every Sunday; that is we all went there together. I reverenced the family pew where we had assembled for so many years; and apart from that reason I hold it dear because it is associated in my memory with my mother. ↗

— Pierre Loti

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

— Estelle Parsons

#acting #because #me #now #reverence

Every man now worships gold, all other reverence being done away. ↗

— Sextus Propertius

#being #being done #done #every #every man