500 Quotes by Firsts

Draw near to Nature. Then try like some first human being to say what you see and experience and love and lose.

Knowing where you are going is the first step to getting there.

No science ever defends its first principles.

The first duty of the educator, whether he is involved with the newborn infant or the older child, is to recognize the human personality of the young being and respect it.

Whenever they rebuild an old building, they must first of all destroy the old one.

Every monster was a man first.

Faith and works should travel side by side, step answering to step, like the legs of men walking. First faith, and then works; and then faith again, and then works again – until they can scarcely distinguish which is the one and which is the other.

Before we can make friends with anyone else, we must first make friends with ourselves.

The most rigid structures, the most impervious to change, will collapse first.