Top Reverence Quotes
Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.
John Milton
Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.
Samuel Butler
There is reverence that we owe to everything in human shape.
William Godwin
There is some sadness for me now about acting because it used to be that there was a reverence for actors.
Estelle Parsons
We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind.
Eric Hoffer
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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.
Margaret Sanger 
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My effort has been not only to put the Biblical incident in the original setting... but at the same time give the human touch to convey to my public the reverence and elevation these subjects impart to me.
Henry Ossawa Tanner
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One of the surest signs of the Philistine is his reverence for the superior tastes of those who put him down.
Pauline Kael
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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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Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now.
Frank Lloyd Wright
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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 love and reverence the Word, the bearer of the spirit, the tool and gleaming ploughshare of progress.
Thomas Mann
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Popular Reverence Authors
Henry David ThoreauSamuel Butler Plato Aristotle SophoclesAlbert CamusEric HofferJohn RuskinE. M. ForsterAlbert SchweitzerFrank Lloyd WrightCalvin CoolidgeThomas MannDesiderius Erasmus Socrates
William GodwinThomas HobbesJohn AdamsHenry EllisThomas MertonColin GreenwoodMax von SydowJohn MiltonPaul Tsongas PythagorasFranz SchubertSwami VivekanandaEstelle ParsonsWilliam O. DouglasJonny Greenwood
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