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

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

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

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