Heights Quotes
403 quotes by 349 authors
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Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at…
— Saint Augustine
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I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone.
— Cyrano de Bergerac
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I don't have any real spirituality in my life - I'm kind of an atheist - but when music can take me to the highest…
— Jack Black
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From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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No matter what heights you achieve, even if you're Brad Pitt, the slide is coming, sure as death and taxes.
— James Caan
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The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.
— Albert Camus
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One time or another we all face adversity's chilling wind. One man flees from it, and like an unresisting kite falls to the ground. Another…
— David O. McKay
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I don't have a fear of heights. I do, however, have a fear of falling from heights.
— George Carlin
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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If a man will comprehend the richness and variety of the universe, and inspire his mind with a due measure of wonder and awe, he…
— A. E. Housman
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Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
— Lucretius
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[On common water.] Its substance reaches everywhere; it touches the past and prepares the future; it moves under the poles and wanders thinly in the…
— Loren Eiseley
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To expect that the intricacies of science will be pierced by a careless glance, or the eminences of fame ascended without labour, is to expect…
— Samuel Johnson
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He who cultivates that quiet, unobtrusive ecstasy of inner joyousness can scale any heights and be a leader in his field, no matter what that…
— Walter Russell
Who Wrote These Heights Quotes
349 authors contributed a total of 403 Heights Quotes, led by these top contributors: