Highest Perfection Quotes
11 quotes by 11 authors
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To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.
— Robert South
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The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge…
— John Milton
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Yet it was impossible for me to say to people, 'Speak louder, shout, for I am deaf.' Ah, how could I possibly admit an infirmity…
— Ludwig van Beethoven
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It is the wind and the rain, O God, the cold and the storm that make this earth of yours to blossom and bear its…
— W. E. B. Du Bois
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[I]n order to raise a soul to the highest perfection, He allows it to pass through dryness, brambles, and combats, causing it thereby to honor…
— Vincent de Paul
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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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Christianity is the highest perfection of humanity.
— Samuel Johnson
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It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.
— W. Somerset Maugham
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It would be difficult to say which had seen highest perfection in the other, or which had been the happiest: she, in receiving his declarations…
— Jane Austen
Who Wrote These Highest Perfection Quotes
11 authors contributed a total of 11 Highest Perfection Quotes as follows: