Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
Bertrand Russell

The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.
Woodrow Wilson

If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long?
Gloria Steinem

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
George Santayana

Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.
Democritus

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
William James

We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.
Richard P. Feynman

In the beginning was the Word. Man acts it out. He is the act, not the actor.
Henry Miller

Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.
John Ruskin

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.
John Ruskin

Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.
John Ruskin

No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time.
Emma Goldman

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
Thomas Carlyle

In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.
Thomas Carlyle

I think that weddings have probably been crashed since the beginning of time. Cavemen crashed them. You go to meet girls. It makes sense.
Christopher Walken

Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.
Michel de Montaigne

The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.
George Eliot

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.
George Eliot

At fifteen one is first beginning to realize that everything isn't money and power in this world, and is casting about for joys that do not turn to dross in one's hands.
Robert Benchley

Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted.
John Kenneth Galbraith