Highest Quotes
2429 quotes by 1565 authors
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Whatever excites the spirit of contradiction is capable of producing the last effects of heroism; which is only the highest pitch of obstinacy, in a…
— William Hazlitt
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Truly now is the golden age; the highest honour comes by means of gold; by gold love is procured.
— Unknown Author
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But spirituality, it seems to me, when answering the question, "Why should I be good? Why should I care for others?" says, "Because that is…
— Philip Gulley
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Do not think only of your own joy, but vow to save all beings from suffering. This is sharing in its highest form and purity…
— Dalai Lama
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A tender-hearted and compassionate disposition, which inclines men to pity and feel the misfortunes of others, and which is, even for its own sake, incapable…
— Henry Fielding
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God has sometimes converted wickedness into madness; and it is to the credit of human reason that men who are not in some degree mad…
— Edmund Burke
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I mean no disrespect to Scottish football, but the Premier League is the biggest stage and highest profile league of all.
— Peter Shilton
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What has to be given up is not the I, as most mystics suppose: this I is indispensable for any relationship, including the highest, which…
— Martin Buber
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Experience is the highest authority.
— Carl Rogers
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We sell books, other people sell shoes. What's the difference? Publishing isn't the highest art.
— Michael Korda
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The artistic experience, at its highest, was actually a natural analogue of mystical experience. It produced a kind of intuitive of perception.
— Thomas Merton
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Beauty is the highest of all these occult influences, the quality of appearances that thru' the sense wakeneth spiritual emotion in the mind of man.
— Robert Bridges
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Go first to your highest thought about yourself. Imagine the you that you would be if you lived that thought every day. Imagine what you…
— Neale Donald Walsch
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To suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree
— Charles Darwin
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In the real world of competition, the players want to compete and they want to compete at the very highest level.
— Vince McMahon
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That amid our highest civilization men faint and die with want is not due to the niggardliness of nature, but to the injustice of man.
— Henry George
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Service is the highest spiritual discipline. Prayer and meditation, or knowledge of scripture and Vedanta (holy scriptures of India), cannot help you reach the goal…
— Sathya Sai Baba
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The world's 'freeest' country has the highest number in prison.
— Arundhati Roy
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Here on the edge of the river, the motifs are very plentiful, the same subject seen from a different angle gives a subject for study…
— Paul Cezanne
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It is to Titian we must turn our eyes to find excellence with regard to color, and light and shade, in the highest degree. He…
— Joshua Reynolds
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