Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.

Albert Einstein

I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.

Edward Gibbon

There exist only three beings worthy of respect the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.

Charles Baudelaire

We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.

Joseph Joubert

If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.

Robert Schumann

Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

Henry Adams

When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments; tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become.

Louis Pasteur

A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century.

David Hume

We confide in our strength, without boasting of it we respect that of others, without fearing it.

Thomas Jefferson

The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.

Henry Ward Beecher

There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.

William Hazlitt

Discretion is nothing other than the sense of justice with respect to the sphere of the intimate contents of life.

Georg Simmel

In a world where differences abound, respect is the universal language that transcends barriers, opening the door to empathy and understanding.

True respect is never imposed but willingly given.