Highest Degree Quotes

60 Highest Degree quotes by 57 unique authors

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
Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the… — Barack Obama
Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering… — Arthur Schopenhauer
Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable… — Adam Smith
We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom. — Leo Tolstoy
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
The power of the Executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charge known to the law and particularly to deny him the… — Winston Churchill
...Every ego so far from being a unity is in the highest degree a manifold world, a constellated heaven, a chaos of forms, of states… — Hermann Hesse
For the artist, the color, the bouquet, the tinkling of the spoon on the saucer, are things in the highest degree. He stops at the… — Jean-Paul Sartre
Art is action. The way I live my life to its highest degree is by writing, the practice of art. — Ursula K. Le Guin
In the end, the most important thing is to be true to yourself and those you love and work hard. I mean, work like there's… — Michael Jackson

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