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1. “Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the Covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment.”
Thomas Jefferson
Constitution, Reverence, Tradition, Law, Political Critique
6. “You, who have just crossed the Roof of the World, will not want to hear an account of the little hills that I saw – low, colorless hills. But to me they were living and the turf that covered them was a skin, under which their muscles rippled, and I felt that those hills had called with incalculable force to men in the past, and that men had loved them. Now they sleep – perhaps for ever. They commune with humanity in dreams.” E.M. Forster Nature, History, Longing, Beauty, Memory, Reverence
15. “I should dread to disfigure the beautiful ideal of the memories of illustrious persons with incongruous features, and to sully the imaginative purity of classical works with gross and trivial recollections.” William Wordsworth Ideal Memory, Classical Works, Purity Imagination, Reverence, History, Beauty
Reverence Quotes by Famous Authors
1. “Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the Covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment.”
Thomas Jefferson Constitution, Reverence, Tradition, Law, Political Critique
6. “You, who have just crossed the Roof of the World, will not want to hear an account of the little hills that I saw – low, colorless hills. But to me they were living and the turf that covered them was a skin, under which their muscles rippled, and I felt that those hills had called with incalculable force to men in the past, and that men had loved them. Now they sleep – perhaps for ever. They commune with humanity in dreams.”
E.M. Forster Nature, History, Longing, Beauty, Memory, Reverence
15. “I should dread to disfigure the beautiful ideal of the memories of illustrious persons with incongruous features, and to sully the imaginative purity of classical works with gross and trivial recollections.”
William Wordsworth Ideal Memory, Classical Works, Purity Imagination, Reverence, History, Beauty
