Height Quotes

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The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity. — Bruce Lee
We must not expect simple answers to far-reaching questions. However far our gaze penetrates, there are always heights beyond which block our vision. — Alfred North Whitehead
A fondness for power is implanted in most men, and it is natural to abuse it when acquired. This maxim, drawn from the experience of… — Alexander Hamilton
Like mighty eagle soaring light. O'er antelopes on Alpine height. The anchor heaves, the ship swings free, The sails swell full. To sea, to sea! — Thomas Lovell Beddoes
In Jesus, God wills to be true God not only in the height but also in the depth - in the depth of human creatureliness,… — Karl Barth
You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed. — Frederick Douglass
To attempt social reform, educational reform, industrial expansion, the moral improvement of the race without aiming, first and foremost, at political freedom is the very… — Sri Aurobindo
By altering his arrangements and changing his plans, the skillful general keeps the enemy without definite knowledge. By shifting his camp and taking circuitous routes,… — Sun Tzu
When he utilizes combined energy, his fighting men become, as it were, like rolling logs or stones... The energy developed by good fighting men is… — Sun Tzu
With regard to precipitous heights, if you are beforehand with your adversary, you should occupy the raised and sunny spots, and there wait for him… — Sun Tzu
We may distinguish six kinds of terrain, to wit: (1) Accessible ground; (2) entangling ground; (3) temporising ground; (4) narrow passes; (5) precipitous heights; (6)… — Sun Tzu
An army may be likened to water, for just as flowing water avoids the heights and hastens to the lowlands, so an army avoids strength… — Sun Tzu
The real key to Jack's [Nicklaus] success was his fantastic ability to score. His drives sometimes went into the rough, but he could plow the… — Gardner Dickinson
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace, Where never the lark, nor even eagle flew- And, while… — Dizzy Gillespie
I never expected to be in the papers. I personally never expected to be in the papers. The height of my ambition for these books… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
The depth of our despair measures what capability and height of claim we have to hope. — Thomas Carlyle
To me there never has been a higher source of honour or distinction than that connected with advances in science. I have not possessed enough… — Humphry Davy
The Sappers really need no tribute from me; their reward lies in the glory of their achievement. The more science intervenes in warfare, the more… — Bernard Law Montgomery
The height of ability in the least able consists in knowing how to submit to the good leadership of others. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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