Highest Quotes
2429 quotes by 1512 authors
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The highest type of free men should be sought where the highest resistance is constantly overcome: five steps from tyranny, close to the threshold of…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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A collector recently bought at public auction, in London, for one hundred and fifty-seven guineas, an autograph of Shakespeare; but for nothing a school-boy can…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The highest level of creativity consists in being, not doing. When the being is intense enough, when the words are spoken enough, when the thoughts…
— Marianne Williamson
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Ethical existence [is] the highest manifestation of spirituality.
— Albert Schweitzer
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The development of our spiritual nature should concern us most. Spirituality is the highest acquisition of the soul, the divine in man; 'the supreme, crowning…
— David O. McKay
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The love of fame is almost another name for the love of excellence; or it is the ambition to attain the highest excellence, sanctioned by…
— William Hazlitt
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Just as the highest and the lowest notes are equally inaudible, so perhaps, is the greatest sense and the greatest nonsense equally unintelligible.
— Alan Watts
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Battering down solar cells on the roofs of Wal-Marts in California. I think that will be some of the highest-return investments that anyone ever makes.
— Jeremy Grantham
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Being called a traitor by Dick Cheney is the highest honor you can give an American, and the more panicked talk we hear from people…
— Edward Snowden
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The enjoyment of work - to the extent that you have any - is likely highest in the first hours of the day when you…
— Emily Oster
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Art is a critical component in a well-rounded education. Art is the level playing field - no matter how rich or poor, tall or short,…
— Lynda Resnick
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He who aims at making an entire and perfect oblation of himself, in addition to his will, must offer his understanding, which is a further…
— Saint Ignatius
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Even in the angels there is the subordination of one hierarchy to another, and in the heavens, and all the bodies that are moved, the…
— Saint Ignatius
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My education in the public schools of New York City between 1932 and 1944 was an excellent preparation for a life in science. Because of…
— Robert Fogel
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The presidency awed me, but presidents do not. Perhaps I have always expected too much of them, but I believe that when they reach the…
— Helen Thomas
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The highest heels I do are six-inch heels - but mostly only dancers can wear them, since they are used to being on point in…
— Christian Louboutin
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Politics, according to the Social Doctrine of the Church, is one of the highest forms of charity, because it serves the common good. I cannot…
— Pope Francis
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We might experience bad things in our lives. But if we worship a God who suffered more than us, this is our highest example. And…
— Mosab Hassan Yousef
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For Starbucks, there will be no shortage of the highest-quality arabica beans. I suspect that for some others there could potentially be a problem, not…
— Howard Schultz
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My role is to just tell the highest degree of truth with every character and every story. From there, I have no clue whatsoever how…
— Sarah Shahi
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