Lofty Quotes

214 quotes by 190 authors

There's something ever egotistical in mountain tops and towers, and all things grand and lofty. — Herman Melville
Our Lord humbled without humiliation His lofty station which yet could not be humbled, and condescends to His servants, with a condescension ineffable and incomprehensible.… — John of Damascus
Love a friend, love a wife, something, whatever you like, but one must love with a lofty and serious intimate sympathy, with strength, with intelligence,… — Vincent Van Gogh
Steadfast Seas and MountainsThe lofty mountains and the seas, Being mountains, being seas, Both exist and are real. But frail as flowers are the lives… — Reiko Chiba
Most agreeable are the memories of events and labours, connected with the cruise:- of companions in travel, ... of coral islands with their groves, and… — James Dwight Dana
But we can hold our spirits and our bodies so pure and high, we may cherish such thoughts and such ideals, and dream such dreams… — Joshua
The ancients had a taste, let us say rather a passion, for the marvellous, which caused ... grouping together the lofty deeds of a great… — Francois Arago
The mathematical giant [Gauss], who from his lofty heights embraces in one view the stars and the abysses ... — Farkas Bolyai
Science should have no less lofty a goal. My ambition is to live to see all of physics reduced to a formula so elegant and… — Leon M. Lederman
Mathematics may, like poetry or music, "promote and sustain a lofty habit of mind." — G. H. Hardy
Peace is more than a lofty ideal. It is a practical principle that, with conscious effort, can become a normal part of our lives as… — Joseph B. Wirthlin
Two of the vital pillars that sustain Father in Heavenâ€™s plan of happiness are marriage and the family. Their lofty significance is underscored by Satanâ€™s… — Richard G. Scott
Some of the finest moral intuitions come to quite humble people. The visiting of lofty ideas doesn't depend on formal schooling. — Alfred North Whitehead
There are fully forty towers, which are lofty and well built, the largest of which has fifty steps leading to its main body, and is… — Hernando Cortes
A murmuring, fateful, giant voice, out of the earth and sky, Voice of a mighty dying tree in the Redwood forest dense.... [T]he wood-spirits came… — Walt Whitman
...but when The Spirit speaks,â€”or beauty from the sky Descends into my being,â€”when I hear The storm-hymns of the mighty ocean roll, Or thunder sound,â€”the… — Robert Montgomery
Every thought which enters the mind, every word we utter, every deed we perform, makes its impression upon the inmost fiber of our being and… — Orison Swett Marden
There is no tongue to speak his eulogy; Too brightly burned his splendor for our eyes; Far easier to condemn his injurers, Than for the… — Michelangelo
Because our goals are not lofty but illusory, our problems are not difficult, but nonsensical. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
We seek to sow life in the child rather than theories, to help him in his growth, mental and emotional as well as physical, and… — Maria Montessori

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