Elevation Quotes

84 quotes by 79 authors

Though we have been stuffing them into classrooms and cubicles for decades, our brains actually were built to survive in jungles and grasslands. A lifetime… — John Medina
The limitless loving devotion to God, and the gift God makes of Himself to you, are the highest elevation of which the heart is capable;… — Edith Stein
Father had notions about manhood suffrage, public schools, the education and the elevation of the masses, and the gradual emancipation of the slaves, that did… — John Sergeant Wise
If, then, knowledge be power, how much more power to we gain through the agency of faith, and what elevation must it give to human… — Matthew Simpson
Mr. Lincoln's elevation shows that in America every station in life may be honorable; that there is no barrier against the humblest; but that merit,… — Matthew Simpson
Ours is the old, old story of every uprising race or class or order. The work of elevation must be wrought by ourselves or not… — Frances Power Cobbe
Even the juncture in history and the zeitgeist we live in is something we choose, setting the scene for the spiritual fodder we need to… — Raquel Cepeda
Words of divine consciousness: moral exaltation; lasting feelings of elevation, elation, joy; a quickening of the moral sense, which strikes one as more important than… — Yann Martel
I think space, architectural space, is my thing. It's not about facade, elevation, making image, making money. My passion is creating space. — Peter Zumthor
Prudence operates on life in the same manner as rule of composition; it produces vigilance rather than elevation; rather prevents loss than procures advantage; and… — Samuel Johnson
Elevation of today's generation, if I can make them listen. Prisons ain't what we need, no longer stuck in greed. — Tupac Shakur
What we're talking about is the endless, gullible elevation of necessary levels of comfort and status and everything else at the complete expense of all… — Bill McKibben
It is a commonly observed fact that the enslavement of women is invariably associated with a low type of social life, and that, conversely, her… — Herbert Spencer
I wish to be of service to the artists of our own day, by showing them how a small beginning leads to the highest elevation,… — Giorgio Vasari
We must begin by acknowledging that there is a complete absence of two things in Indian Society. One of these is equality. On the social… — B R Ambedkar
More truly characteristic of dissent is a dignity, an elevation, of mood and thought and phrase. Deep conviction and warm feeling are saying their last… — Benjamin Cardozo
There are two sorts of hypocrites: ones that are deceived with their outward morality and external religion; and the others are those that are deceived… — Jonathan Edwards
And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself -… — Seamus Heaney
The child who has been taught to make an accurate elevation, plan, and section of a pint pot has had an admirable training in accuracy… — Thomas Huxley

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