beginning

Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall never have a beginning.

This fear of the Lord is indeed the beginning of wisdom. This consciousness of sin is the straight pathway to heaven.

I have a wish. It as a fear as well - that in my end will be my beginning.

Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.

A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.

The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

Honesty is of God and dishonesty of the devil the devil was a liar from the beginning.

Sometimes people walk into plays by accident - they don't even know what they're looking at they just think to give it a chance. That can be the beginning of a long friendship.

When you head on out to the Moon, in very short order, and you get a chance to look back at the Earth, that horizon slowly curves around in upon himself, and all of sudden you're looking at something that is very strange, but yet is very, very familiar, because you're beginning to see the Earth evolve.

I won't wait until the end of my term to say I made mistakes at the beginning. That's too late. I will try to adopt the proper behaviour, if the French give me the chance, right from the start.

Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.

My intention still is to write a play to commemorate, possibly rather skeptically, the 50th anniversary of the Russian revolution. I started it at the beginning of 1966, but confronted with the enormous importance and reality of that revolution, I absolutely boggle. I don't know what to do about it.

What does the artist do? He draws connections. He ties the invisible threads between things. He dives into history, be it the history of mankind, the geological history of the Earth or the beginning and end of the manifest cosmos.

From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned.

Throughout history, story telling was at the very beginning of life.

No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.

A good beginning makes a good end.