Highest Quotes
2429 quotes by 1578 authors
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One must commit acts of the highest treason only when dressed in the most resplendent finery.
— Grant Morrison
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Prayer that craves a particular commodity—anything less than all good, is vicious. Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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the highest point a man can attain is not Knowledge, or Virtue, or Goodness, or Victory, but something even greater, more heroic and more despairing:…
— Nikos Kazantzakis
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I can worship Nature, and that fulfills my need for miracles and beauty. Art gives a spiritual depth to existence -- I can find worlds…
— Neil Peart
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A man's sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions.... He will always be attracted to the woman who reflects his…
— Ayn Rand
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Every world has dogs or their equivalent, creatures that thrive on companionship, creatures that are of a high order of intelligence although not the highest…
— Dean Koontz
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To oppose corruption in government is the highest obligation of patriotism.
— G. Edward Griffin
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How absurd it was that in all seven kingdoms, the weakest and most vulnerable of people - girls, women - went unarmed and were taught…
— Kristin Cashore
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The highest level than can be reached by a mediocre but experienced mind is a talent for uncovering the weaknesses of those greater than itself.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage—pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically, to say “no†to other things. And the way you…
— Stephen Covey
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...and with a burning pain in my heart I realized how unnecessary, how petty, and how deceptive all that had hindered us from loving was.…
— Anton Chekhov
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Modern man has transformed himself into a commodity; he experiences his life energy as an investment with which he should make the highest profit, considering…
— Erich Fromm
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To venture causes anxiety, but not to venture is to lose one's self.... And to venture in the highest is precisely to be conscious of…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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Imagination is the highest form of research.
— Albert Einstein
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You can indulge your righteous rage but the things it comes out of are pretty cheap. The trick is to make yourself an instrument of…
— Norman Mailer
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The soldier is the Army. No army is better than its soldiers. The Soldier is also a citizen. In fact, the highest obligation and privilege…
— George S. Patton
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He always reminded us that every atom in our bodies was once part of a distant star that had exploded. He talked about how evolution…
— Greg Iles
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The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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There is an old story from the Eastern tradition that says that when the gods created the universe, they found a place for everything but…
— Stephen Kendrick
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We needs must love the highest when we see it.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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