Rarest Quotes

115 Rarest quotes by 97 unique authors

Mankind must work continually to produce individual great human beings - this and nothing else is the task... for the question is this : How… — Friedrich Nietzsche
I believe that creativity is a product of intelligence. I don't believe that creative work can be produced by fools, dullards, or mediocre people, except… — Bruce Barnbaum
Enthusiasm is by far the highest paid quality on earth, probably because it is one of the rarest; yet it is one of the most… — Frank Bettger
To be one of God's lilies means an interior abandonment of the rarest kind. It means that we are to be infinitely passive, and yet… — Hannah Whitall Smith
The American way of stress is comparable to Freud's 'beloved symptom', his name for the cherished neurosis that a patient cultivates like the rarest of… — Florence King
The chief misery of the decline of the faculties, and a main cause of the irritability that often goes with it, is evidently the isolation,… — Charles Horton Cooley
Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic; it is merely a form of emotional masturbation. It is the… — Aldous Huxley
The happy phrasing of a compliment is one of the rarest of human gifts, and the happy delivery of it another. — Mark Twain
The goal of NIH research is to acquire new knowledge to help prevent, detect, diagnose, and treat disease and disability, from the rarest genetic disorder… — Ike Skelton
The rarest of the good qualities in human beings is courage — Dennis Prager
It seems to me that to take a book of mine into his hands is one of the rarest distinctions that anyone can confer upon… — Friedrich Nietzsche
And may the best of you - for it will only be the best of you, and even then only in the rarest and briefest… — John Malkovich
I dream of a quiet man / who explains nothing and defends nothing, but only knows / where the rarest wildflowers / are blooming, and… — Wendell Berry
Pride is the oldest and most common of sins. Humility is the rarest and most beautiful of graces. — J C Ryle
Self-awareness is one of the rarest of human commodities. I don't mean self-consciousn ess where you're limiting and evaluating yourself. I mean being aware of… — Tony Robbins
We should not feel pride in our charity, austerity, valour, scriptural knowledge, modestyandmorality for the world is full of the rarest gems. — Chanakya
What will you do today, knowing that you are one of the rarest forms of life to ever walk the Earth? How will you carry… — Mark Nepo
Emotion combined with an artist's discipline is the rarest thing in the world. — Ursula Nordstrom
Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events. — John Drinkwater
But at the time when he wrote, Englishmen, with the rarest exceptions, wrote only in French or Latin; and when they began to write in… — George Saintsbury
A mutually fulfilled sexual union between two people is the rarest sensation which life can provide. But it is not quite real. It stops when… — Cyril Connolly
The trombones crunched redgold under my bed, and behind my gulliver the trumpets three-wise silverflamed, and there by the door the timps rolling through my… — Anthony Burgess
Rarest of all is the man who can and does reason at all times, quickly, accurately, inclusively, despite hope or fear or bodily distress, without… — Robert A. Heinlein
But we must not forget that only a very few people are artists in life; that the art of life is the most distinguished and… — Carl Jung
Because of Christianity the West has missed many things, and one of them is meditation, the rarest flowering of a human being, because they have… — Rajneesh

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