Veneration Quotes
52 quotes by 44 authors
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One of the Godlike things of this world is the veneration done to human worth by the hearts of men.
— Thomas Carlyle
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So great is my veneration for the Bible that the earlier my children begin to read it the more confident will be my hope that…
— John Quincy Adams
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We must sometimes get away from the Authorized Version, if for no other reason, simply because it is so beautiful and so solemn. Beauty exalts,…
— C.S. Lewis
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Every tradition grows continually more venerable, and the more remote its origins, the more this is lost sight of. The veneration paid the tradition accumulates…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Sing me not a song; let me hear your recital of veneration and respect; this I will listen to over and over when I share…
— Ava Gardner
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Such is my veneration for every religion that reveals the attributes of the Deity, or a future state of rewards and punishments, that I had…
— Benjamin Rush
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Mix a little mystery with everything, for mystery arouses veneration.
— Baltasar Gracian
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Each superfluous line, each wrongly placed line, any color placed without veneration or care, can spoil everything, that is, the spiritual.
— Theo van Doesburg
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The veneration, wherewith Men are imbued for what they call Nature, has been a discouraging impediment to the Empire of Man over the inferior Creatures…
— Robert Boyle
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Let weak and frail man come here suppliantly to adore the Sacrament of Christ, not to discuss high things, or wish to penetrate difficulties, but…
— Paul of the Cross
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Fair-goes are not only for oneself, but for underdogs. Even in international sporting matches Australians have been known to switch from their own side to…
— Donald Horne
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I have always a sacred veneration for anyone I observe to be a little out of repair in his person, as supposing him either a…
— Jonathan Swift
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The inscrutable wisdom through which we exist is not less worthy of veneration in respect to what it denies us than in respect to what…
— Immanuel Kant
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Is it not the glory of the people of America, that whilst they have paid a decent regard to the opinions of former times and…
— James Madison
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It may be considered as an objection inherent in the principle, that as every appeal to the people would carry an implication of some defect…
— James Madison
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I was summoned by my Country, whose voice I can never hear but with veneration and love.
— George Washington
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While the womanly god demands our veneration, the godlike woman kindles our love; but while we allow ourselves to melt in the celestial loveliness, the…
— Friedrich Schiller
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Antiquity! thou wondrous charm, what art thou? that being nothing art everything? When thou wert, thou wert not antiquity - then thou wert nothing, but…
— Charles Lamb
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No man tells his opinion so freely as when he imagines it received with implicit veneration.
— Samuel Johnson
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One may desire a spurious respect and precedence among one's fellow monks, and the veneration of outsiders. "Both monks and laity should think it was…
— Gautama Buddha
Who Wrote These Veneration Quotes
44 authors contributed a total of 52 Veneration Quotes, led by these top contributors: