Highest Quotes

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MISCREANT, n. A person of the highest degree of unworth. Etymologically, the word means unbeliever, and its present signification may be regarded as theology's noblest… — Ambrose Bierce
Certainly one of the highest duties of the citizen is a scrupulous obedience to the laws of the nation. But it is not the highest… — Thomas Jefferson
The highest virtue is always against the law. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A skillful commander is not overbearing. A skillful fighter does not become angry. A skillful conqueror does not compete with people. One who is skillful… — Laozi
The very essence of rationalism is that it assumes that the reason is the highest faculty in man and the lord of all the rest. — Lyman Abbott
Glory to God in the highest, Ohio has saved the Nation. — Abraham Lincoln
Of all the unexpected qualities of an unexpected universe, the sheer organizing power of animal and plant metabolism is one of the most remarkable. .… — Loren Eiseley
Go on bravely. Do not expect success in a day or a year. Always hold on to the highest. Be steady. Avoid jealousy and selfishness.… — Swami Vivekananda
We can see from the experience of Odin that the image of the tree was the template within which all of the sacred world could… — Unknown Author
The ripest peach is highest on the tree — James Whitcomb Riley
...the fullest development of the highest powers of men can be achieved only in a world of peace. — Robert M. Hutchins
The force that has overcome Europe and destroyed entire states within days could cope with us, a handful of youngsters. It was an act of… — Unknown Author
You men of the einsatzgruppen are called upon to fulfill a repulsive duty. But you are soldiers who have to carry out every order unconditionally.… — Heinrich Himmler
A supremely religious man or woman is one who believes deeply and consistently in the veracity of his highest experiences. He has his hours in… — Harry Emerson Fosdick
There is one plain rule of life. Try thyself unweariedly till thou findest the highest thing thou art capable of doing, faculties and outward circumstances… — John Stuart Mill
Surely a man has come to himself only when he has found the best that is in him, and has satisfied his heart with the… — Woodrow Wilson
Teachers should be held in the highest honor. They are the allies of legislators; they have agency in the prevention of crime; they aid in… — Lydia Sigourney
That aim in life is highest which requires the highest and finest discipline. — Henry David Thoreau
Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts — Saint John Chrysostom
Language as the technology of human extension, whose powers of division and separation we know so well, may have been the "Tower of Babel" by… — Marshall McLuhan
The greatest genius is never so great as when it is chastised and subdued by the highest reason. — Charles Caleb Colton
The conditions of a solitary bird are five: The first, that it flies to the highest point; The Second, that it does not suffer for… — John of the Cross
Thought, true labor of any kind, highest virtue itself, is it not the daughter of Pain? — Thomas Carlyle
Man is the highest being in creation, because he attains to freedom. — Swami Vivekananda
Man is the highest being that exists, and this is the greatest world. — Swami Vivekananda

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