Merit Quote by Harold Pinter Download Open image “How can the unknown merit reverence?” — Harold Pinter ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Merit Reverence
How can the unknown merit reverence? In other words how can you revere that of which you are ignorant? At the same time, it… — Harold Pinter Copy Share Image
Reverence is a good thing, and part of its value is that the more we revere a man, the more sharply are we struck… — Max Beerbohm Copy Share Image
“The human understanding, once it has adopted opinions, either because they were already accepted and believed, or because it likes them, draws everything else… — Gary Taubes Copy Share Image
Familiarity confounds all traits of distinction; interest and prejudice take away the power of judging. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Familiarity breeds contempt. How accurate that is. The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so little opportunity to get… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Reverence is an ennobling sentiment; it is felt to be degrading only by the vulgar mind, which would escape the sense of its own… — Washington Allston Copy Share Image
The doubt of an earnest, thoughtful, patient and laborious mind is worthy of respect. In such doubt may be found indeed more faith than… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
“the ultimate standard, by which we determine all disputes, that may arise concerning them, is always derived from experience and observation. Where this experience… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself) draws all… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Everything, no matter how evident or obvious, should be doubted, questioned, viewed with suspicion....There is much to be gained from the discovery that one… — David Mermin Copy Share Image
There is a beauty that arises from withholding judgment and evading comparison, a grace in not demanding consensus. — David Romtvedt Copy Share Image
Nothing is more sterile or lamentable than the man content to live within himself. — Harold Pinter Copy Share Image
“ I know the place I know the place. It is true. Everything we do Corrects the space Between death and me And you.” — Harold Pinter Copy Share Image
“DEELEY: Myself I was a student then, juggling with my future, wondering should I bejasus saddle myself with a slip of a girl not… — Harold Pinter Copy Share Image
I've never been able to understand what they mean by 'Pinteresque,'. I'm sure it's indefinable. — Harold Pinter Copy Share Image
A character on stage who can present no convincing argument or information as to his past experience, his present behaviour or his aspirations, nor… — Harold Pinter Copy Share Image
I'll tell you what I really think about politicians. The other night I watched some politicians on television talking about Vietnam. I wanted very… — Harold Pinter Copy Share Image
Be careful how you talk about God. He's the only God we have. If you let him go he won't come back. He won't… — Harold Pinter Copy Share Image
“What sound was that? I turn away, into the shaking room. What was that sound that came in on the dark? What is this… — Harold Pinter Copy Share Image
Use every man according to his desert and who should 'scape whipping? Use them after your own honor and dignity, the less they deserve… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Even the most abject have a sense of superiority based on powerful though undefined merits. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
I could give you some names of Workshop participants who are as good as many who are being published but haven't had the right… — James Gunn Copy Share Image
Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such: it is an accident, not a property, of… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Whatever we may say against collections, which present authors in a disjointed form, they nevertheless bring about many excellent results. We are not always… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Let the watchwords of all our people be the old familiar watchwords of honesty, decency, fair-dealing, and commonsense."... "We must treat each man on… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There is no discussion inside this boardroom to say we've got to get into this or that. We look at every growth opportunity on… — James Packer Copy Share Image
I know well, Monsieur, how much you have to endure in your present duty, and I ask Our Lord to strengthen you in your… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
Before I met Ayn Rand, I was a logical positivist, and accordingly, I didn't believe in absolutes, moral or otherwise. If I couldn't prove… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him. — Moliere Copy Share Image
