Highest Things Quotes

10 quotes by 10 authors

• When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality, they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which… — Simone Weil
• For contemplation is both the highest form of activity (since the intellect is the highest thing in us, and the objects that it apprehends are… — Aristotle
• The highest things, the things that really matter, we cannot achieve on our own; we have to accept them as gifts and enter in to… — Pope Benedict XVI
• The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or… — Margaret Mead
• If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom. — Leo Strauss
• Let some holy ambition invade our souls, so that, dissatisfied with mediocrity, we shall eagerly desire the highest things and shall toil with all our… — Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
• Yes, the highest things are beyond words. That is probably why all art aspires to the condition of wordlessness. When literature works on you, it… — Ben Okri
• It may well happen that what is in itself the more certain on account of the weakness of our intelligence, which is dazzled by the… — Thomas Aquinas
• Faithfulness and sincerity are the highest things. — Confucius
• Study the best and highest things that are; but of yourself humble thoughts retain. — Joe Davis

Who Wrote These Highest Things Quotes

10 authors contributed a total of 10 Highest Things Quotes as follows:

• 1 Highest Things Quote by Simone Weil
• 1 Highest Things Quote by Aristotle
• 1 Highest Things Quote by Pope Benedict XVI
• 1 Highest Things Quote by Margaret Mead
• 1 Highest Things Quote by Leo Strauss
• 1 Highest Things Quote by Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
• 1 Highest Things Quote by Ben Okri
• 1 Highest Things Quote by Thomas Aquinas
• 1 Highest Things Quote by Confucius
• 1 Highest Things Quote by Joe Davis