Ascent Quotes

105 Ascent quotes by 84 unique authors

Arts, crafts and sciences uplift the world of being, and are conducive to its exaltation. Knowledge is as wings to man's life, and a ladder… — BahÃ¡'u'llÃ¡h
The solitary ascent of the Dru had the immediate effect of expanding the horizons of my ideas about mountaineering. It made me aware of possibilities… — Walter Bonatti
As I express my gratitude, I become more deeply aware of it. And the greater my awareness, the greater my need to express it. What… — David Steindl-Rast
The patient man is merry indeed.... The jailers that watch him are but his pages of honour, and his very dungeon but the lower side… — Thomas Adams
At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless; Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is, But… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
I have been scientifically studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so-called,) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I… — Mark Twain
There are and can be only two ways of searching into and discovering truth. The one flies from the senses and particulars to the most… — Francis Bacon
Every worthy act is difficult. Ascent is always difficult. Descent is easy and often slippery. — Mahatma Gandhi
I exhort you and beseech you in the bowels of Christ, faint not, weary not. There is a great necessity of heaven; you must have… — Samuel Rutherford
Animals are our younger brothers and sisters, also on the ladder of evolution but a few rungs lower. It is an important part of our… — Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding
Wine has a drastic, an astringent taste. I cannot help wincing as I drink. Ascent of flowers, radiance and heat, are distilled here to a… — Virginia Woolf
In the first weeks I had occasionally worn clothes in the morning before the sun began its ascent, but very soon I abandoned this habit,… — Lucy Irvine
What is different in capitalist civilization has been two things. First, the process of meritocracy has been proclaimed as an official virtue instead of being… — Immanuel Wallerstein
No one should deny the danger of the descent, but it can be risked. No one need risk it, but it is certain that someone… — Carl Jung
The path to Heaven is narrow, rough and full of wearisome and trying ascents, nor can it be trodden without great toil; and therefore wrong… — Robert Southwell
The curve of life is like the parabola of a projectile which, disturbed from its initial state of rest, rises and then returns to a… — Carl Jung
Professor Focke and his technicians standing below grew ever smaller as I continued to rise straight up, 50 metres, 75 metres, 100 metres. Then I… — Hanna Reitsch
For those of us who take literature very seriously, picking up a work of fiction is the start of an adventure comparable in anticipatory excitement… — Unknown Author
Sometimes, when I get a good picture, it feels like I have taken another nervous step into increasingly rarified air. Each good-news picture, no matter… — Sally Mann
I will point ye out the right path of a virtuous and noble Education; laborious indeed at first ascent, but else so smooth, so green,… — John Milton
Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness. — Publilius Syrus
Remain true to yourself, but move ever upward toward greater consciousness and greater love! At the summit you will find yourselves united with all those… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Our ascent, of course, does not end the possibility for new accomplishments on El Capitan. The day will probably come when this climb will be… — Royal Robbins
The Principle of Uncertainty fixed once for all the realisation that all knowledge is limited. It is an irony of history that at the very… — Jacob Bronowski
The descent into matter must be complete before the ascent to spirit can commence. — Dion Fortune

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