"Not only is example the best way to teach, it is the only way."
Read quote
6 likes
Quote collection
Albert Schweitzer quotes (page 12 of 18)
347 quotes — follow a thought to its full quote page.
"It is through the idealism of youth that man catches sight of truth, and in that idealism he possesses a wealth which he must never exchange for anything else."
Read quote
6 likes
"Never for a moment do we lay aside our mistrust of the ideals established by society, and of the convictions which are kept by it in circulation. We always know that society is full of folly and will deceive us in the matter of humanity. ... humanity meaning consideration for the existence and the happiness of individual human beings."
Read quote
6 likes
"Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them."
Read quote
6 likes
"The man who has become a thinking being feels a compulsion to give every will-to-live the same reverence for life that he gives to his own. He experiences that other life in his own."
Read quote
6 likes
"Does my behavior in respect of love affect nothing? That is because there is not enough love in me."
Read quote
6 likes
"Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly if they even roll a few more upon it."
Read quote
6 likes
"Serious illness doesn't bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host."
Read quote
6 likes
"No man need fear death, he need fear only that he may die without having known his greatest power: the power of his free will to give his life for others"
Read quote
6 likes
"Kindness works simply and perseveringly; it produces no strained relations which prejudice its working; strained relations which already exist it relaxes. Mistrust and misunderstanding it puts to flight, and it strengthens itself by calling forth answering kindness. Hence it is the furthest reaching and the most effective of all forces."
Read quote
6 likes
"The thinking man must oppose all cruelties no matter how deeply rooted in tradition or surrounded by a halo."
Read quote
6 likes
"Every patient carries his or her own doctor inside."
Read quote
6 likes
"By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive."
Read quote
6 likes
"As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins."
Read quote
6 likes
"Hear our humble prayer, O God. Make us, ourselves, to be true friends to the animals."
Read quote
6 likes
"Every start on an untrodden path is a venture which only in unusual circumstances looks sensible and likely to succeed."
Read quote
6 likes
"It is only through love that we can attain to communion with God. All living knowledge of God rests upon this foundation: that we experience him in our lives as Will-to-love."
Read quote
6 likes
"It seemed to me a matter of course that we should all take our share of the burden of pain which lies upon the world."
Read quote
6 likes
"Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. For remember, you don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too."
Read quote
6 likes
"Reverence for life . . . does not allow the scholar to live for his science alone, even if he is very useful . . . the artist to exist only for his art, even if he gives inspiration to many. . . . It refuses to let the business man imagine that he fulfills all legitimate demands in the course of his business activities. It demands from all that they should sacrifice a portion of their own lives for others."
Read quote
6 likes