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Knowing all truth is less than doing a little bit of good.
— Albert Schweitzer
Only those who respect the personality of others can be of real use to them.
— Albert Schweitzer
The three most important ways to lead people are: ... by example ... by example ... by example.
— Albert Schweitzer
I wanted to be a doctor that I might be able to work without having to talk because for years I had been giving myself out in words.
— Albert Schweitzer
By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.
— Albert Schweitzer
Help me to fling my life like a flaming firebrand into the gathering darkness of the world.
— Albert Schweitzer
The interior joy we feel when we have done a good deed is the nourishment the soul requires.
— Albert Schweitzer
Hear our humble prayer, O God. Make us, ourselves, to be true friends to the animals.
— Albert Schweitzer
In the hopes of reaching the moon, we fail to see the flowers that blossom at our feet.
— Albert Schweitzer
Reverence for life brings us into a spiritual relation with the world which is independent of all knowledge of the universe.
— Albert Schweitzer
A good example has twice the value of good advice
— Albert Schweitzer
Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.
— Albert Schweitzer
Try to tell the people of America about Dr. Gerson's merits and ... results ... I wish you the best in your difficult task.
— Albert Schweitzer
Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.
— Albert Schweitzer
The future of civilisation depends on our overcoming the meaninglessness and hopelessness that characterizes the thoughts of men today.
— Albert Schweitzer
As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.
— Albert Schweitzer
In resigning ourselves to our fate without a struggle, we are guilty of inhumanity.
— Albert Schweitzer
An idea is, in the end, always stronger than circumstances.
— Albert Schweitzer
Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal.
— Albert Schweitzer
Passes he stands for a moment close to us, as though illumined by a flash of lightning. Then we see him as he really is. After
— Albert Schweitzer
Be faithful to your love and you mill be recompensed beyond measure.
— Albert Schweitzer
To me, good health is more than just exercise and diet. Its really a point of view and a mental attitude you have about yourself.
— Albert Schweitzer
Serious illness doesn't bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host.
— Albert Schweitzer
The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives. -Albert Schweitzer
— Albert Schweitzer
But you must do something more. Seek always to do some good, somewhere
— Albert Schweitzer
Don't let your hearts grow numb. Stay alert. It is your soul which matters.
— Albert Schweitzer
Renunciation of thinking is a declaration of spiritual bankruptcy.
— Albert Schweitzer
I am conscious that meat eatingis not in accordance with the finer feelings,and I abstain from it whenever I can.
— Albert Schweitzer
Those who experiment on animals should never be able to quiet their own conscience by telling themselves that these cruelties have a worthy aim.
— Albert Schweitzer
The Bhagavad-Gita has a profound influence on the spirit of mankind by its devotion to God which is manifested by actions.
— Albert Schweitzer
The only thing of importance, when we depart, will be the traces of love we have left behind.
— Albert Schweitzer
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
— Albert Schweitzer
The gratitude that we encounter helps us believe in the goodness of the world, and strengthens us thereby to do what's good.
— Albert Schweitzer
A thinking man feels compelled to approach all life with the same reverence he has for his own.
— Albert Schweitzer
If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.
— Albert Schweitzer
When we observe contemporary society one thing strikes us. We debate but make no progress. Why? Because as peoples we do not yet trust each other.
— Albert Schweitzer
It is the fate of every truth to be an object of ridicule when it is first acclaimed.
— Albert Schweitzer
For those who sincerely seek the truth should not fear the outcome.
— Albert Schweitzer
Man has the lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end up destroying the earth.
— Albert Schweitzer
Let your life be your argument.
— Albert Schweitzer
Reverence for life, veneratio vitae, is the most direct and at the same time the profoundest achievement of my will-to-live.
— Albert Schweitzer
We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger.
— Albert Schweitzer
Good is that which promotes life, evil is that which destroys life
— Albert Schweitzer
He who does not reflect his life back to God in gratitude does not know himself.
— Albert Schweitzer
Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.
— Albert Schweitzer
That's my private ant. You're liable to break its legs.
— Albert Schweitzer
Love ... includes fellowship in suffering, in joy and in effort.
— Albert Schweitzer
Today ... we know that all living beings who strive to maintain life and who long to be spared pain - all living beings on earth - are our neighbors.
— Albert Schweitzer
Every patient carries his or her own doctor inside.
— Albert Schweitzer
Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.
— Albert Schweitzer
You ask me for a motto. Here it is: SERVICE.
— Albert Schweitzer
One person can and does make a difference.
— Albert Schweitzer
If you study life deeply, its profundity will seize you suddenly with dizziness.
— Albert Schweitzer
Every start on an untrodden path is a venture which only in unusual circumstances looks sensible and likely to succeed.
— Albert Schweitzer
Love ... is a living reality.
— Albert Schweitzer
If you truly desire happiness, seek and learn how to serve.
— Albert Schweitzer
We cannot abdicate our conscience to an organization, nor to a government.
— Albert Schweitzer
Our age is bent on trying to make the barren tree of skepticism fruitful by tying the fruits of truth on its branches.
— Albert Schweitzer
The disastrous feature of our civilization is that it is far more developed materially than spiritually. Its balance is disturbed.
— Albert Schweitzer
We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.
— Albert Schweitzer
Late upon the third day, at the very moment when, at sunset ... there flashed upon my mind, unforseen and unsought, the phrase 'Reverence for Life'.
— Albert Schweitzer
Let us rejoice in the truth, wherever we find its lamp burning.
— Albert Schweitzer
We need a boundless ethics which will include animals also.
— Albert Schweitzer
Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
— Albert Schweitzer
The only ones who will find real happiness are those who find a way to serve
— Albert Schweitzer
Love is the only thing that doubles every time it's given, said Albert Schweitzer.
— Matthieu Ricard
My life is my argument.
— Albert Schweitzer
The the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and hope are optimistic.
— Albert Schweitzer
Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.
— Albert Schweitzer
The result of the voyage does not depend on the speed of the ship, but on whether or not it keeps a true course.
— Albert Schweitzer
The quiet conscience is an invention of the devil
— Albert Schweitzer
Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.
— Albert Schweitzer
Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.
— Albert Schweitzer
It doesn't matter if an animal can reason. It matters only that it is capable of suffering and that is why I consider it my neighbor.
— Albert Schweitzer
Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.
— Albert Schweitzer
Creative energy is the essence of all healing ... We physicians do nothing, we only help and encourage the physician within.
— Albert Schweitzer
The great enemy of morality is indifference.
— Albert Schweitzer
The gratitude ascending from man to God is the supreme transaction between heaven and earth.
— Albert Schweitzer
It is not always granted to the sower to see the harvest.
— Albert Schweitzer
Aim for service and success will follow!
— Albert Schweitzer
The only way out of today's misery is for people to become worthy of each other's trust.
— Albert Schweitzer
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Ethical existence [is] the highest manifestation of spirituality.
— Albert Schweitzer
A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.
— Albert Schweitzer
Arguing from facts never wins a definitive victory against skillfully presented opinion.
— Albert Schweitzer
Your soul suffers if you live superficially.
— Albert Schweitzer
Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.
— Albert Schweitzer
Every patient carries her or his own doctor inside.
— Albert Schweitzer
Grow into your ideals so that life cannot rob you of them.
— Albert Schweitzer
If the extension of your compassion does not include all living beings, then you will be unable to find peace by yourself.
— Albert Schweitzer
Happiness is the only thing that multiplies when you share it.
— Albert Schweitzer
At 20 everyone has the face that God gave them, at 40 the face that life gave them, and at 60 the face they earned.
— Albert Schweitzer
I am life which wants to live admidst of lives that want to live.
— Albert Schweitzer
If you own something you cannot give away, then you don't own it, it owns you.
— Albert Schweitzer
I must forgive without noise or fuss.
— Albert Schweitzer
Do something for somebody everyday for which you do not get paid.
— Albert Schweitzer
Every person I have known who has been truly happy has learned how to serve others.
— Albert Schweitzer
I too had thoughts once of being an intellectual, but I found it too difficult.
— Albert Schweitzer
My life carries its own meaning in itself.
— Albert Schweitzer
Do something good and someone might imitate it.
— Albert Schweitzer
A man does not have to be an angel to be a saint.
— Albert Schweitzer