Highest Quotes

2429 quotes by 1578 authors

There is a reward structure in science that is very interesting: Our highest honors go to those who disprove the findings of the most revered… — Carl Sagan
When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality, they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which… — Simone Weil
With the goodness of God to desire our highest welfare, the wisdom of God to plan it, and the power of God to achieve it,… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
In his wretched life of less than twenty-seven years Abel accomplished so much of the highest order that one of the leading mathematicians of the… — Eric Temple Bell
Ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the… — Lytton Strachey
War both needs and generates certain virtues; not the highest, but what may be called the preliminary virtues, as valor, veracity, the spirit of obedience,… — Walter Bagehot
True meditation can never be done with the mind. Very often we make a mistake when we say that we are meditating in the mind… — Sri Chinmoy
If I'm going dancing, then I wear the highest heels with the shortest dress. — Kate Moss
For, as has been indicated from the innate experience as well as from the longings within, a home - home - with all its deeper,… — Edgar Cayce
I am for liberty of conscience in its noblest, broadest, and highest sense. But I cannot give liberty of conscience to the pope and his… — Abraham Lincoln
Humanity is in the highest degree irrational, so that there is no prospect of influencing it by reasonable arguments. Against prejudice one can do nothing. — Sigmund Freud
But who prays for Satan? Who in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most, our… — Mark Twain
Meditation is a sort of prayer and prayer is meditation. The highest meditation is to think of nothing. If you can remain one moment without… — Swami Vivekananda
Meditative state is the highest state of existence. So long as there is desire, no real happiness can come. It is only the contemplative, witness-like… — Swami Vivekananda
In samadhi, in the highest form of meditation, the same thing happens: the mind stops functioning... but you are conscious. That is the only difference,… — Rajneesh
It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but… — Henry David Thoreau
Friendship is all about opening up and letting in the highest-quality people you can find. It's about trusting a person enough to know that your… — Sean Stephenson
Art is the highest form of hope. — Gerhard Richter
In making tactical dispositions, the highest pitch you can attain is to conceal them. — Sun Tzu
It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying, and… — Sun Tzu

Who Wrote These Highest Quotes

1,578 authors contributed a total of 2,429 Highest Quotes, led by these top contributors: