Highest Degree 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
We just can't let the Lord down. And if the day comes when we are the only women on earth who find nobility and divinity… — Sheri L. Dew
For talking monkeys to speak of truth is hubris of the highest degree. Where is it writ large that talking monkeys should be able to… — Terence McKenna
Be seriously involved with growing, with your own development, and never fear. Be the kind of person who is naturally powerful, positive, ingenious, open, to… — Jeff Buckley
The limitless loving devotion to God, and the gift God makes of Himself to you, are the highest elevation of which the heart is capable;… — Edith Stein
Writers that pretend to be in the throes of some kind of genius-demon, some kind of possessing spirit that refuses to let them engage with… — Matt Fraction
I... [proposed] three distinct grades of education, reaching all classes. 1. Elementary schools for all children generally, rich and poor. 2. Colleges for a middle… — Thomas Jefferson
Scientists do not believe in fundamental and absolute certainties. For the scientist, certainty is never an end, but a search; not the ordering of certainty,… — Ashley Montagu
The distance from nothing to a little, is ten thousand times more, than from it to the highest degree in this life. — John Donne
We may affirm, then, that the main drift of the later Renaissance was away from a humanism that favored a free expansion toward a humanism… — Irving Babbitt
Only those to whom God is present in everything and who employ their reason in the highest degree and have true enjoyment in it know… — Meister Eckhart
War is a sin. War is the highest degree of immorality. War is inhuman insanity for it kills sacred human lives wholesale. How can there… — Robert Muller
God is each truly and exalted thing, therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are not nature and the world individuals? — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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
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
I never work with an audience - I can't do this. The process depends on the highest degree of nervous concentration. — Frank Auerbach
The highest degree of meekness consists in seeing, serving, honoring, and treating amiably, on occasion, those who are not to our taste, and who show… — Saint Francis de Sales
Every thing useful and beneficial to man, seems to be connected with obedience to the laws of his nature, the inclinations, the duties, and the… — Samuel Williams
Let him who expects one class of society to prosper in the highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side; of… — Thomas Fuller
The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth. — Walter Lippmann

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