Highest Quotes

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We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom. — Leo Tolstoy
I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals and I loathe humanity for its failure to live up to these possibilities. — Ayn Rand
Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its highest. Live in fragments no… — E. M. Forster
Although we were not able to shatter that highest and hardest glass ceiling this time, thanks to you it has 18 million cracks in it,… — Hillary Clinton
Friendship is the purest love. It is the highest form of Love where nothing is asked for, no condition, where one simply enjoys giving. — Rajneesh
Thought that can merge wholly into feeling, feeling that can merge wholly into thought - these are the artist's highest joy. — Thomas Mann
You must know nothing before you can learn something, and be empty before you can be filled. Is not the emptiness of the bowl what… — Lloyd Alexander
To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for… — Charles Darwin
To evade such temptations is the first duty of the poet. For as the ear is the antechamber to the soul, poetry can adulterate and… — Virginia Woolf
God is the highest good of the reasonable creature. The enjoyment of him is our proper; and is the only happiness with which our souls… — Jonathan Edwards
Living apart and at peace with myself,I came to realize more vividly the meaning of the doctrine of acceptance. To refrain from giving advice, to… — Henry Miller
We...believe that art is religious, because it is one of man's highest aspirations. There is no such thing as pagan art, only good and bad… — Irving Stone
Tereza's mother never stopped reminding her that being a mother meant sacrificing everything. Her words had the ring of truth, backed as they were by… — Milan Kundera
I think one of the highest compliments you can give a person is that when you are talking to him, you are not thinking about… — David Levithan
When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values[...]. — Simone de Beauvoir
A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the highest virtues of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The… — Thomas Jefferson
The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the human psyche is capable. It is… — Richard Dawkins
The Marines I have seen around the world have the cleanest bodies, the filthiest minds, the highest morale, and the lowest morals of any group… — Eleanor Roosevelt
Those who can soar to the highest heights can also plunge to the deepest depths and the natures which enjoy most keenly are those which… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
Happiness is the highest form of wisdom. — Jacqueline Carey

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