Height Quotes
930 quotes by 762 authors
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This can never become popular, and, indeed, has no occasion to be so; for fine-spun arguments in favour of useful truths make just as little…
— Immanuel Kant
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I can only gaze with wonder and awe at the depths of and heights of our psychic nature. Its non-spatial universe conceals an untold abundance…
— Carl Jung
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In Christ and through Christ man has acquired full awareness of his dignity, of the heights to which he is raised, of the surpassing worth…
— Pope John Paul II
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When the pursuit of natural harmony is a shared journey, great heights can be attained.
— Lynn Hill
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How great is the path proper to the Sage! Like overflowing water, it sends forth and nourishes all things, and rises up to the height…
— Confucius
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The superior man honors his virtuous nature, and maintains constant inquiry and study, seeking to carry it out to its breadth and greatness, so as…
— Confucius
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The way of the superior man may be compared to what takes place in traveling, when to go to a distance we must first traverse…
— Confucius
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Through nonviolent resistance the Negro will be able to rise to the noble height of opposing the unjust system while loving the perpetrators of the…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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But people need lift, too. People don't get moving, they don't soar, they don't achieve great heights, without someone buoying them up.
— Elizabeth Wein
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EACH AND EVERY master, regardless of the era or place, heard the call and attained harmony with heaven and earth. There are many paths leading…
— Morihei Ueshiba
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It is only by presenting those portions of the race in my pictures, in the light and backround of their true state, that we can…
— Oscar Micheaux
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He is a fool who looks at the fruit of lofty trees, but does not measure their height.
— Quintus Curtius Rufus
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With buildering, I get to keep that element of danger. Plus, I very much like the feeling of height, and buildings have even more of…
— Alain Robert
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I had now arrived at my seventeenth year, and had attained my full height, a fraction over six feet. I was well endowed with youthful…
— Henry Bessemer
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And the most difficult of tasks to keep Heights which the soul is competent to gain.
— William Wordsworth
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The body sprang At once to the height, and stayed; but the soul,-no!
— Robert Browning
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As evening approached, I came down from the heights of the island, and I liked then to go and sit on the shingle in some…
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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The height of ability consists in a thorough knowledge of the real value of things, and of the genius of the age in which we…
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Researchers, with science as their authority, will be able to cut animals up, alive, into small pieces, drop them from a great height to see…
— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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Did you measure to attain your height? Did you use geometry to radiate your limb? Did you lament storm-torn branches? Did you inventory your leaves…
— Ming-Dao Deng
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