Merit Quote by Harold Pinter

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

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

“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

Familiarity confounds all traits of distinction; interest and prejudice take away the power of judging.

— William Hazlitt

“Reverence reduces hostility.”

— Toba Beta

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

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

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

“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

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

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

There is a beauty that arises from withholding judgment and evading comparison, a grace in not demanding consensus.

— David Romtvedt