Books Quote by Galileo Galilei

The superior man honors his virtuous nature, and maintains constant inquiry and study, seeking to carry it out to its breadth and greatness, so…

— Confucius

A man whose extraordinary reputation thus lifts him up to the notice and observation of mankind, draws a multitude of eyes upon him, that…

— Joseph Addison

The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

The philosopher is he to whom the highest has descended, and the lowest has mounted up; who is the equal and kindly brother of…

— Thomas Carlyle

Either the human being must suffer and struggle as the price of a more searching vision, or his gaze must be shallow and without…

— Thomas de Quincey

When a man sees the one in all things, he is above mere understanding.

— Meister Eckhart

At a certain stage in his evolution, man himself had been able to lay hold upon a higher order of things, which raised him…

— Alfred Noyes

The great poet is always a seer, seeing less with the eyes of the body than he does with the eyes of the mind.

— Oscar Wilde

The higher a man stands on the social ladder, the greater the number of people he is connected with, the more power he has…

— Leo Tolstoy

The higher a man is in grace, the lower he will be in his own esteem.

— Charles Spurgeon

The Highest Being reveals himself in man.

— Thomas Carlyle

Well has it been said that man is the only animal that naturally looks upwards; every other animal naturally looks down. That looking upward…

— Swami Vivekananda