Highest Quotes - Page 20

• A noble soul is not the one that can manage the highest flights but the one that rises very little and falls very little but always dwells in a free, resplendent atmosphere and altitude.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Fall, Rose, Flying

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• The highest praise we can attribute to any writer, painter, sculptor, builder, is, that he actually possessed the thought or feeling with which he has inspired us.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Art, Feelings

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.23, Harvard University Press

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• When we think of God, we are apt to think of Him in human form. In the Epiphanies of the Old Testament God revealed Himself to Joshua and others in human form. He puts Himself within the compass of our highest conception, in order that He may make Himself real to us in His love and sympathy and power.

  A. C. Dixon

  Real, Thinking, Order

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• Truth is the highest virtue, but higher still is truthful living.

  Guru Nanak

  Truthful, Truth Is, Virtue

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• In felling a tree we should cut into the trunk of it to the very heart, and then leave it standing so that the sap may drain out drop by drop throughout the whole of it... Then and not till then, the tree being drained dry and the sap no longer dripping, let it be felled and it will be in the highest state of usefulness.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Heart, Cutting, Tree

  "De architectura (Ten Books on Architecture)". Book by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (Book II, Chapter IX, Section 3), circa 15 BC.

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• It was a wise and useful provision of the ancients to transmit their thoughts to posterity by recording them in treatises, so that they should not be lost, but, being developed in succeeding generations through publications in books, should gradually attain in later times, to the highest refinement of learning.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Wise, Book, Generations

  "De architectura (Ten Books on Architecture)". Book by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (Book VII, Introduction, Section 1), circa 15 BC.

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• I believe that the fewer the laws in a home the better; but there is one law which should be as plainly understood as the shining of the sun is visible at noonday, and that is, implicit and instantaneous obedience from the child to the parent, not only for the peace of the home, but for the highest good of the child.

  Abbott Eliot Kittredge

  Children, Believe, Home

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• New Jersey boasts the highest percentage of passport holders (68%); Delaware (67%), Alaska (65%), Massachusetts (63%), New York (62%), and California (60%) are close behind. At the opposite end of the spectrum, less than one in five residents of Mississippi are passport holders, and just one in four residents of West Virginia, Kentucky, Alabama, and Arkansas.

  Richard Florida

  New York, Alaska, Kentucky

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• Culture, far from giving us freedom, only develops, as it advances, new necessities; the fetters of the physical close more tightly around us, so that the fear of loss quenches even the ardent impulse toward improvement, and the maxims of passive obedience are held to be the highest wisdom of life.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Loss, Giving, Culture

  Friedrich Schiller (2015). “Aesthetical Essays of Schiller: Top Classic of German”, p.34, 谷月社

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• This is the highest miracle of genius, that things which are not should be as though they were, that the imaginations of one mind should become the personal recollections of another.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Imagination, Miracle, Mind

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• Our souls, piercing through the impurity of flesh, behold the highest heaven, and thence bring knowledge to contemplate the ever-during, glory and termless joy.

  Walter Raleigh

  Heaven, Joy, Soul

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• Even in the important matter of cranial capacity, Men differ more widely from one another than they do from the Apes; while the lowest Apes differ as much, in proportion, from the highest, as the latter does from Man.

  Thomas Huxley

  Men, Important, Doe

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1997). “The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.83, University of Georgia Press

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• Poet, forger of ideals, dreamer among the possibilities of life, prophet of the millenium, do you get impatient with the prosaic life around you -- the dulness, and the earthliness, and the brutishness of men? Fret not. Go forward into the realm which stretches before you; climb the highest mountain you can reach, and plant a cross there. The nations will come up to it some day. Work for immortality if you will; then wait for it. If your own age fail to recognize you, a coming age will not.

  J. G. Holland

  Men, Waiting, Dreamer

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• The highest philosophers, in explaining the mystery of this world, are obliged to call in the aid of another.

  Josh Billings

  World, Philosopher, Mystery

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• Reality, in its quantitative aspect, must be considered as a system of populations... The general study of the equilibria and dynamics of populations seems to have no name; but as it has probably reached its highest development in the biological study known as 'ecology,' this name may well be given to it.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Reality, Names, Population

  "A Reconstruction of Economics". Book by Kenneth Ewart Boulding, p. 5, 1950.

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• I believe that the highest virtue is to be happy, living in the greatest truth, not submitting to the falsehood of these personaltimes.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Happiness, Happy, Believe

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• I have known not a few men who, after reaching the summits of business success, found themselves miserable on attaining retirement age. They were so exclusively engrossed in their day-to-day affairs that they had no time for friend-making.... They may flatter themselves that their unrelaxing concentration on business constitutes patriotism of the highest order. They may tell themselves that the existing emergency will pass, and that they can then adopt different, more sociable, more friendly habits. [But] such a day is little likely to come for such individuals.

  B. C. Forbes

  Retirement, Business, Order

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• It was my duty to have loved the highest; It surely was my profit had I known: It would have been my pleasure had I seen. We needs must love the highest when we see it, Not Lancelot, nor another.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Needs, Pleasure, Profit

  'Idylls of the King' (1842-85) 'Guinevere' (1859) l. 652

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• And so then, keep on growing, My son. Keep on becoming. And keep on deciding what you want to become in the next highest version of your Self. Keep on working toward that. Keep on! Keep on! This is God Work we're up to, you and I. So keep on!

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Inspirational, Religious, Son

  Neale Donald Walsch (1996). “Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.124, Penguin

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• Obedience is not creation, and thus can never produce salvation. Obedience is a response, while creation is pure choice, undictated, unrequired. Pure choice produces salvation through the pure creation of highest idea in this moment now.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Inspirational, Religious, Ideas

  Neale Donald Walsch (1996). “Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.138, Penguin

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• The truly great and good, in affliction, bear a countenance more princely than they are wont; for it is the temper of the highest hearts, like the palm-tree, to strive most upwards when it is most burdened.

  Philip Sidney

  Heart, Adversity, Tree

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• As the fertilest ground, must be manured, so must the highest flying wit have a Daedalus to guide him.

  Philip Sidney

  Education, Flying, Daedalus

  Sir Philip Sidney, William Gray (1860). “The miscellaneous works of Sir Philip Sidney, knt: with a life of the author and illustrative notes”, p.111

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• Leisure, the highest happiness on earth, is seldom enjoyed with perfect satisfaction, except in solitude.

  George Zimmerman

  Perfect, Solitude, Earth

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• Conflict, which rouses up the best and highest powers in some characters, in others not only jars the whole being, but paralyzes the faculties.

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Character, Jars, Conflict

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• As long as the artist invents and is inspired, he remains in a constrained state of mind, at least for the purpose of communication. He then wants to say everything, which is the wrong tendency of young geniuses or the right prejudice of old bunglers. Thus, he fails to recognize the value and dignity of self-restraint, which is indeed for both the artist and the man the first and the last, the most necessary and the highest goal.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Communication, Men, Artist

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