Above All Things Quotes
94 Above All Things quotes by 78 unique authors
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And if we ask how are we to know where our hearts are, the answer is just as simple - everything which hinders us from…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Our default faith mode is to trust, above all things, our own ability to create a safe, controllable, predictable world.
— Tullian Tchividjian
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Represent to yourself a dark city all burning and stinking with fire and brimstone. The damned are in the depth of hell within this woful…
— Saint Francis de Sales
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Above all things expand the frontiers of science: without this the rest counts for nothing.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Parliament will train you to talk; and above all things to hear, with patience, unlimited quantities of foolish talk.
— Thomas Carlyle
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In religion above all things the only thing of use is an objective truth. The only God that is of use is a being who…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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A teacher should, above all things, first induce a desire in the pupil for the acquisition he wishes to impart.
— Horace Mann
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I'd learned a lot in the Army. I knew that above all things in the world I had to become so big, so strong that…
— Sammy Davis, Jr.
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I do still see that my nature is not to be quite conquered, but will esteem pleasure above all things, though yet in the middle…
— Samuel Pepys
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The mere imparting of information is not education. Above all things, the effort must result in making a man think and do for himself.
— Carter G. Woodson
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The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it?
— Jeremiah
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Above all things, reverence yourself.
— Pythagoras
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Above all things, one should maintain his self-respect, and there is but one way to do that, and that is to live in accordance with…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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Humanity abhors, above all things, a vacuum in itself, and your class will be cut off from humanity as the surgeon cuts the cancer and…
— James Larkin
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Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood; all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize…
— Albert Pike
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Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.
— Pythagoras
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Above all things, I must not get angry. If I do get angry I knock all the teeth out of the mouth of the poor…
— Franz Schubert
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Human nature is above all things lazy.
— Harriet Beecher Stowe
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For what I always hated and detested and cursed above all things was this contentment, this healthiness and comfort, this carefully preserved optimism of the…
— Hermann Hesse
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