Highest Quotes
2429 Highest quotes by 1512 unique authors
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Those that will not permit their wealth to do any good for others. . . cut themselves off from the truest pleasure here and the…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius.
— Henry Adams
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Purity of life is the highest and truest art.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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The highest cannot be spoken; it can only be acted.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The knowledge of the ancients reached the highest point-the time before anything existed. This is the highest point. It is exhaustive. There is no adding…
— Zhuangzi
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The highest law gives a thing to him who can use it.
— Henry David Thoreau
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The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute.
— D. H. Lawrence
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Do not speak of God much. After a very little conversation on the highest nature, thought deserts us and we run into formalism.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The highest and noblest thing that history can be is a good story.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The glorious Vishnu is the sole refuge of mortals. He is Infinite Light, Love and Wisdom. He resides in the hearts of all beings. His…
— Sivananda
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When you reach your highest goal, choose a new one.
— Jay Van Andel
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Occasionally when you’re in that zone, striving to operate at your highest levels, you get consumed. You forget to eat and shower. But that can…
— Brandon Steiner
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Education in our family was not merely emphasized, it was our raison d'etre ... In this family of accomplished scholars, I was to become the…
— Steven Chu
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The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms of charitable and…
— Mark Twain
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Intellectual ''work'' is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward.
— Mark Twain
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Wars, invented and organized by the highest available consciousnesses (do the worms go to war? do the fish? do the paramecia?), are the planet's chief…
— Cynthia Ozick
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Death is never sweet, not even if it is suffered for the highest ideal.
— Erich Fromm
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A man's very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels in the dust, and beats his breast, and tells all…
— Oscar Wilde
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Gold will buy the highest honours; and gold will purchase love.
— Unknown Author
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I find in most novels no imagination at all. They seem to think the highest form of the novel is to write about marriage, because…
— Gore Vidal
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The mark of highest originality lies in the ability to develop a familiar idea so fruitfully that it would seem no one else would ever…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Rather perish than hate and fear, and twice rather perish than make oneself hated and feared — this must some day become the highest maxim…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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But tell me: how did gold get to be the highest value? Because it is uncommon and useless and gleaming and gentle in its brilliance;…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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The highest compliment one can be paid by another human being is to be told: 'Because of what you are, you are essential to my…
— Nathaniel Branden
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To ignite your confidence and reclaim your courage, you must step into the highest vision of who you are. The only way to do this…
— Debbie Ford
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