Highest Quotes

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If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their… — Susan B. Anthony
For me, the best times are always going to be the most intense, the ones with the highest highs and the lowest lows. — Fiona Apple
If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever. — Thomas Aquinas
The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of… — Thomas Aquinas
There are two things which make it impossible to believe that this world is the successful work of an all-wise, all-good, and at the same… — Arthur Schopenhauer
Motherhood is near to divinity. It is the highest, holiest service to be assumed by mankind. It places her who honors its holy calling and… — J. Reuben Clark
The best soldiers are not warlike; the best fighters do not lose their temper. The greatest conquerors are those who overcome their enemies without strife.… — Laozi
When committees gather, each member is necessarily an actor, uncontrollably acting out the part of himself, reading the lines that identify him, asserting his identity....… — Lewis Thomas
The highest summit of spiritual perfection is knowledge of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. — A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
The study of Nature is intercourse with the highest mind. You should never trifle with Nature. At her lowest her works are the works of… — Louis Agassiz
Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs. — Juvenal
Being a singer is a natural gift. It means I'm using to the highest degree possible the gift that god gave me to use. I'm… — Aretha Franklin
Art in its highest form is art that serves and instructs society and human development. — Harry Belafonte
Crying is one of the highest devotional songs. One who knows crying, knows spiritual practice. If you can cry with a pure heart, nothing else… — Kripalvananda
Man has risen, not fallen. He can choose to develop his capacities as the highest animal and to try to rise still farther, or he… — George Gaylord Simpson
Humility leads to strength and not to weakness. It is the highest form of self-respect to admit mistakes and to make amends for them. — John J. McCloy
The examples of vice at home corrupt us more quickly and easily than others, since they steal into our minds under the highest authority. — Juvenal
If we must lose wife or husband when we live to our highest right, we lose an unhappy marriage as well, and we gain ourselves.… — Richard Bach
The mother loves her child most divinely, not when she surrounds him with comfort and anticipates his wants but when she resolutely holds him to… — Hamilton Wright Mabie
We've seen those results in generations of Muslim immigrants - farmers and factory workers, helping to lay the railroads and build our cities, the Muslim… — Barack Obama

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