Heights Quotes
403 Heights quotes by 340 unique authors
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It is the poet and philosopher who provide the community of objectives in which the artist participates. Their chief preoccupation, like the artist, is the…
— Mark Rothko
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And men go about to wonder at the heights of the mountains, and the mighty waves of the sea, and the wide sweep of rivers,…
— Petrarch
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Somewhere in your make-up there lies sleeping, the seed of achievement which, if aroused and put into action, would carry you to heights, such as…
— Napoleon Hill
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New York... is a city of geometric heights, a petrified desert of grids and lattices, an inferno of greenish abstraction under a flat sky, a…
— Roland Barthes
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What I've tended to do is to use my own experiences to get into someone else's mind, like in Wuthering Heights.
— Kate Bush
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A philosopher always finds more grass to feed upon in the valleys of stupidity than on the arid heights of intelligence.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
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People who have accomplished work worthwhile have had a very high sense of the way to do things. They have not been content with mediocrity.…
— Orison Swett Marden
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For many, love is a two-sided coin. It can strengthen or stifle, expand or enfeeble, perfect or pauperize. When love is returned, we soar. We…
— Colleen Houck
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Before the gates of excellence the high gods have placed sweat; long is the road thereto and rough and steep at first; but when the…
— Hesiod
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For those fed up with the lack of mystery at the top of the Premiership, could I refer you to the commanding heights of the…
— Unknown Author
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Again, men tell us that our preaching should be positive and not negative, that we can preach the truth without attacking error. But if we…
— John Gresham Machen
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Indeed, I have observed one ingredient, somewhat necessary in a man’s composition towards happiness, which people of feeling would do well to acquire; a certain…
— Henry Mackenzie
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Let us each day search from the scriptures and from the prophets…. The scriptures that are never read will never help us. If read, the…
— L. Tom Perry
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There is nothing more man needs than Divine Mercy - that love which is benevolent, which is compassionate, which raises man above his weakness to…
— Pope John Paul II
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There is no wisdom save in truth. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas about truth are changeable. Only a little of the first fruits of wisdom, only…
— Martin Luther
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There are manifold tones of mental life, or, in other words, our psychic life may be lived at different heights, now nearer to action, now…
— Henri Bergson
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In truth, philosophy is the mode of thought shaped by the most radical form of prejudice: the passion of being-in-the-world. With the sole exception of…
— Peter Sloterdijk
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I'm still terrified of flying. I really have to get drunk to fly. I've found that I've developed fears I never had before... fears of…
— Jimmy Page
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Warfare has been marvelously developed. It will soon be impossible to raise it to further heights.
— Fredrik Bajer
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Commandments and covenants of God are like navigational instructions from celestial heights and will lead us safely to our eternal destination. It is one of…
— Dieter F. Uchtdorf
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It was Ba's inspiration which helped me reach the heights of my inner self. She was my priceless jewel.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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When I paint, I never think of selling. People simply fail to understand that we paint in order to experiment and to develop ourselves as…
— Edvard Munch
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Which of the two powers, Love or Music, can elevate man to the sublimest heights? ... It is a problem, and yet it seems to…
— Hector Berlioz
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Capitalism has been called a system of greed—yet it is the system that raised the standard of living of its poorest citizens to heights no…
— Ayn Rand
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Between gods and men, territories are set up. At least in the no-man’s land of the heights of heaven, the depths of hell, and inside…
— Luce Irigaray
Who Wrote These Heights Quotes
340 authors contributed a total of 403 Heights Quotes, led by these top contributors: