Highly Quotes

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The flatterer does not think highly enough of himself or of others. — Jean de la Bruyere
The language of the totalist environment is characterized by the thought-terminating clichÃ©. The most far-reaching and complex of human problems are compressed into brief, highly… — Robert Jay Lifton
The more highly we think of ourselves-our abilities and talents-the less God can use us. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
The decay of decency in the modern age, the rebellion against law and good faith, the treatment of human beings as things, as the mere… — Walter Lippmann
We are so constituted by Nature that we easily believe the things we hope for, but believe only with difficulty those we fear, and that… — Baruch Spinoza
The capacity for friendship usually goes with highly developed civilizations. The ability to cultivate people differs by culture and class; but on the whole, educated… — Margaret Mead
A good aphorism is too hard for the tooth of time, and is not worn away by all the centuries, although it serves as food… — Friedrich Nietzsche
If your city's being populated by highly educated twentysomething s with choices, you're probably going to succeed. — Mick Cornett
I gloomily came to the ironic conclusion that if you take a highly intelligent person and give them the best possible, elite education, then you… — Halton Arp
Chaos and ineptitude are anti-human; but so too is a superlatively efficient government, equipped with all the products of a highly developed technology. — Aldous Huxley
Human contacts have been so highly valued in the past only because reading was not a common accomplishment.... The world, you must remember, is only… — Aldous Huxley
There is an insistent tendency among serious social scientists to think of any institution which features rhymed and singing commercials, intense and lachrymose voices urging… — John Kenneth Galbraith
The Jew has his anchorage not in place but in time, in his highly developed sense of history as personal context. Six thousand years of… — George Steiner
The most highly prized curve of all is that of the bosom ... — Germaine Greer
I see the creative accomplishments of which highly gifted humans are capable as special cases of the universal creative process, that game played by everyone… — Konrad Lorenz
Why is Slavery so much condemn'd and strove against in one Case, and so highly applauded and held so necessary and so sacred in another? — Mary Astell
It is believed by experienced doctors that the heat which oozes out of the hand, on being applied to the sick, is highly salutary. It… — Hippocrates
Interpretation, based on the highly dubious theory that a work of art is composed of items of content, violates art. It makes art into an… — Susan Sontag
You have the core hip-hop, which would just be beats and breaks, more something like what you hear with DJ Premier. Then you get into… — Ice T
If you lie down in a village square hoping to capture a sea gull, you could stay there your whole life without succeeding. But a… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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