Worthiest Quotes
15 quotes by 13 authors
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Too much of our work amounts to the drudgery of arranging means toward ends, mechanically placing the right foot in front of the left and…
— James Ogilvy
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There's no music in rest, but there's the making of music in it. And people are always missing that part of the life melody, always…
— John Ruskin
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For this knowledge of right living, we have sought a new name... . As theology is the science of religious life, and biology the science…
— Ellen Swallow Richards
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I only desire sincere relations with the worthiest of my acquaintance, that they may give me an opportunity once in a year to speak the…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest…
— Sophocles
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The sum total of all possible knowledge of God is not possible for a human being, not even through a true revelation. But it is…
— Immanuel Kant
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If the fairest features of the landscape are to be named after men, let them be the noblest and worthiest men alone.
— Henry David Thoreau
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Say what we may of the inadequacy of translation, yet the work is and will always be one of the weightiest and worthiest undertakings in…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The most powerful prayer, one well-nigh omnipotent, and the worthiest work of all is the outcome of a quiet mind. The quieter it is the…
— Meister Eckhart
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The worthiest man to be known, and for a pattern to be presented to the world, he is the man of whom we have most…
— Michel de Montaigne
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It becomes no man to nurse despair, but, in the teeth of clenched antagonisms, to follow up the worthiest till he die.
— Alfred the Great
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The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.
— Jonathan Swift
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Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and…
— Pat Riley
Who Wrote These Worthiest Quotes
13 authors contributed a total of 15 Worthiest Quotes as follows: