Higher Quotes
2933 quotes by 1937 authors
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The greatest and most important problems of life are all in a certain sense insoluble. They can never be solved, but only outgrown. This 'outgrowing',…
— Carl Jung
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Give up the feeling of responsibility, let go your hold, resign the care of your destiny to higher powers, be genuinely indifferent as to what…
— William James
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A tax cut means higher family income and higher business profits and a balanced federal budget. Every taxpayer and his family will have more money…
— John F. Kennedy
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A tax cut means higher family income and higher business profits and a balanced federal budget....As the national income grows, the federal government will ultimately…
— John F. Kennedy
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Men do tend to talk about things on a much higher level. Many of my male colleagues, when they go to the House floor, you…
— Renee Ellmers
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Scientific knowledge scarcely exists amongst the higher classes of society. The discussion in the Houses of Lords or of Commons, which arise on the occurrence…
— Charles Babbage
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The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I will frankly confess that after passing a few weeks in the valley of the Marquesas, I formed a higher estimate of human nature than…
— Herman Melville
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I called gold the ultimate bubble, which means it may go higher. But it’s certainly not safe and it’s not going to last forever.
— George Soros
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Leaders must live by higher standards than their followers.
— John C. Maxwell
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Who said that justice is what you imagine? Can you be sure that you know it when you see it, that you will live long…
— Mark Helprin
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English girls' schools today providing the higher education are, so far as my knowledge goes, worthily representative of that astonishing rise in the intellectual standards…
— Mary Augusta Ward
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Upon this theology he rarely pondered. The kernel of his practical religion was that it was respectable, and beneficial to one's business, to be seen…
— Sinclair Lewis
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When a married person uses pornography, or is unfaithful, it compromises not just his (or her) purity, but also compromises the spouse's purity. As a…
— Christine O'Donnell
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There's too many people that paint with a broad brush that we're all corrupt, we're all amoral. … And having these kinds of things happen,…
— John Ensign
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A university should not be an island where academics attain higher and higher levels of knowledge without sharing any of this knowledge with its neighbours.
— Muhammad Yunus
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This is a service station, we offer service. There is no higher purpose.
— Nick Nolte
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Everyone must concede that there is in existence something wiser than himself. Now there is a challenge, there is a challenge which few even investigate.…
— Vernon Howard
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This country has achieved its commercial and financial supremacy under a regime of private ownership. It conquered the wilderness, built our railroads, our factories, our…
— George B. Cortelyou
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As a rule, indeed, grown-up people are fairly correct on matters of fact; it is in the higher gift of imagination that they are so…
— Kenneth Grahame
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