Highly Quotes

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Happiness belongs to those who are sufficient unto themselves. For all external sources of happiness and pleasure are, by their very nature, highly uncertain, precarious,… — Arthur Schopenhauer
I prefer to regard a dessert as I would imagine the perfect woman: subtle, a little bittersweet, not blowsy and extrovert. Delicately made up, not… — Graham Kerr
The spirit of a production-centered, commodity-greedy society is such that only the non-conformist can defend himself sufficiently against it. Those who are seriously concerned with… — Erich Fromm
Scientists have practical reasons for wishing that religion and science be kept separate. They can see nothing but trouble ... if they venture into the… — Victor J. Stenger
You don't have any other society where the educated classes are so effectively indoctrinated and controlled by a subtle propaganda system - a private system… — Noam Chomsky
A visionary company doesn't simply balance between idealism and profitability: it seeks to be highly idealistic and highly profitable. A visionary company doesn't simply balance… — James C. Collins
It is highly possible that what is called 'talented behavior' is simply a greater individual capacity for experiencing. From this point of view, it is… — Viola Spolin
Highly motivated achievers are looking not to receive but to contribute. They are looking for problems that are personally satisfying to solve. — Denis Waitley
The most difficult part is to convince a human being that in the entire creation, he is the most highly evolved being; that he is… — Nirmala Srivastava
It is a special kind of enlightenment to have this feeling that the usual, the way things normally are, is odduncanny and highly improbable. G.K.Chesterton… — Alan Watts
If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would… — Richard DeVos
The most silent people are generally those who think most highly of themselves. — William Hazlitt
To point out the importance of circumspection in your conduct, it may be proper to observe that a good moral character is the first essential… — George Washington
One that does not think to highly of himself is more than he thinks. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base-in both senses-greed. — John Fowles
Our creationist detractors charge that evolution is an unproved and unprovable charade-a secular religion masquerading as science. They claim, above all, that evolution generates no… — Stephen Jay Gould
The main conclusion arrived at in this work, namely that man is descended from some lowly-organised form, will, I regret to think, be highly distasteful… — Charles Darwin
If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work. — Isaac Newton
[Great scientists] are men of bold ideas, but highly critical of their own ideas: they try to find whether their ideas are right by trying… — Karl Popper
Free passion is radiation without a radiator, a fluid, pervasive warmth that flows effortlessly. It is not destructive because it is a balanced state of… — Chogyam Trungpa

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