Loftiest Quotes

30 Loftiest quotes by 28 unique authors

The divine life is the spirit in everything that exists, from the atom to the archangel; the grain of dust could not be were God… — Annie Besant
To me there never has been a higher source of honour or distinction than that connected with advances in science. I have not possessed enough… — Humphry Davy
You may have the loftiest goals, the highest ideals, the noblest dreams, but remember this nothing works unless you do. — Nido R Qubein
The loftiest in status are those who do not know their own status, and the most virtuous of them are those who do not know… — Al-Shafiâ€˜i
The loftiest edifices need the deepest foundations. — George Santayana
The only duration of family life that satisfies the loftiest longings of the human soul is forever. — Russell M. Nelson
If you are not happy with yourself, even the loftiest achievements won't bring you much satisfaction. — Ben Bernanke
The most beautiful, perhaps the only true philosophical song existing in any known tongue ....perhaps the deepest and loftiest thing the world has to show. — Wilhelm von Humboldt
My journey deep into coma, outside this lowly physical realm and into the loftiest dwelling place of the almighty Creator, revealed the indescribably immense chasm… — Eben Alexander
The wretched Artist himself is alternatively the lowest worm that ever crawled when no fire is in him; or the loftiest God that ever sand… — Caitlin Thomas
Associate reverently, and as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts. — Henry David Thoreau
Out of the lowest depths there is a path to the loftiest heights. — Thomas Carlyle
The highest science, the loftiest speculation, the mightiest philosophy, which can ever engage the attention of a child of God, is the name, the nature,… — Charles Spurgeon
Poetry, even that of the loftiest, and seemingly, that of the wildest odes, [has] a logic of its own as severe as that of science;… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Our common country is in great peril, demanding the loftiest views, and boldest action to bring it speedy relief. Once relieved, its form of government… — Abraham Lincoln
A person who has during all time maintained the imposing position of spiritual head of four-fifths of the human race, and political head of the… — Mark Twain
Let patriotism have its high days and freedom its monuments, and let the triumphs of navigators and generals be annually observed; but surely, beyond all… — George Horace Lorimer
I have the loftiest idea, and the most passionate one, of art. Much too lofty to agree to subject it to anything. Much too passionate… — Albert Camus
In each human heart terror survives The ravin it has gorged: the loftiest fear All that they would disdain to think were true: Hypocrisy and… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is… — Havelock Ellis
What is my loftiest ambition? I've always wanted to throw an egg at an electric fan. — Oliver Herford
I.Q. deficiency. There are some people who are an order of fries short of a Happy Meal, and what is often a characteristic about every… — Rush Limbaugh
Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement. — Theodore Roosevelt
Fear of corrupting the mind of the younger generation is the loftiest form of cowardice. — Holbrook Jackson
Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether much that is… — Edgar Allan Poe

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