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Quotes About Respect

I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
The philosopher should be a man willing to listen to every suggestion,but determined to judge for himself.He should not be a respector of persons,but of things.Truth should be his primary object.
~ Michael Faraday
Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
How sacredly do [we] regard the good name of another?...Do we pass on spicy bits of entertaining conversation...repeating rumors and stories which have not been submitted to the test of truth?
~ Howard W. Hunter
He in whom the love of truth predominates . . . submits to the inconvenience of suspense and imperfect opinion; but he is a candidate for truth . . . and respects the highest law of his being.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
That is where consensus-building begins-with the idea that you have your own truth, but that the negotiator on the other side of the table has his own truth as well.
~ Harri Holkeri
There never was a great truth but it was reverenced; never a great institution, nor a great man, that did not, sooner or later, receive the reverence of mankind.
~ Theodore Parker
If I was English would I be respected a bit more? Yes, I think so, that's the truth.
~ Kevin Kilbane
The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
In order that all men might be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.
~ Samuel Johnson
Public faith means going public with what's in your heart, with humility and respect for others, as we speak of the truth of the gospel.
~ Timothy Keller
I don't believe in speaking ill of the dead, even when it's the truth.
~ Ann B. Ross
Telling the truth without sensitivity can be a form of abuse.
~ Frank Hall
I don't think the white establishment will ever respect or appreciate a black man who speaks the truth.
~ Rick James
I enjoy poetry where I can talk as bizarre as I please, but theology or philosophy, I always respect the truth by taking it a step further.
~ Criss Jami, Healology
The practice of truth and nonviolence melted religious differences, and we learnt to see beauty in each religion.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
The truth is, whoever I've dated, if I've ever wanted to talk about them on stage, I've asked them first, and I've gotten their permission to tell a story or talk about them before I do it.
~ Amy Schumer
Only through the development of mutual respect, and in a spirit of truth, can friendship come about. By these means it is possible to move human minds, but never by force.
~ Dalai Lama
I prefer to believe that people are good and honest and respect me enough to tell me the truth. It's not easy to find those people all the time, but they're out there.
~ Ellen DeGeneres
You speak of poverty and dependence. Who are poor and dependent? Who are rich and independent? When was it that men agreed to respect the appearance and not the reality?
~ Henry David Thoreau
Truth is love's mother, and we all know it is not wise to lie to anyone's mother.
~ Iyanla Vanzant
If there be any difference among professed believers as to the sense of Scripture, it is their duty to tolerate such difference in each other, until God shall have revealed the truth to all.
~ John Milton
Truth and ahimsa will never be destroyed.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
I will say that if there is anything like God Or Truth on earth, Hindu-Muslim unity is also possible.
~ Mahatma Gandhi