Highest Quotes - Page 21

• In the highest class of God's school of suffering we learn not resignation nor patience, but rejoicing in tribulation.

  John H. Vincent

  School, Class, Suffering

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 569, 1895.

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• There are some things which a man never speaks of, which are much finer kept silent about. To the highest communications we only lend a silent ear.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Communication, Men, Silence

  Henry David Thoreau (2000). “Walden and Other Writings: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.416, Modern Library

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• In all mammalian species that have so far been carefully studied, the rate at which their members engage in the killing of conspecifics is several thousand times greater than the highest homicide rate in any American city.

  Daniel Dennett

  Cities, Killing, Members

  "Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life". Book by Daniel Dennett, 1995.

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• The higher the trail the steeper it grows Ten thousand tiers of dangerous cliffs The stone bridge is slippery with green moss Cloud after cloud keeps flying by Waterfalls hang like ribbons of silk The moon shines down on the bright pool I climb the highest peak once more To wait where the lone crane flies

  Hanshan

  Moon, Clouds, Bridges

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• While the body is young and fine, the soul blunders, but as the body grows old it attains its highest power. Again, every good soul uses mind; but no body can produce mind: for how should that which is without mind produce mind? Again, while the soul uses the body as an instrument, it is not in it; just as the engineer is not in his engines (although many engines move without being touched by any one).

  Sallust

  Moving, Soul, Mind

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• Learning to say prayers in a foreign language...is not in itself the way to fulfill our highest human potential; there is nothing of transcending value to be gained from substituting one set of cultural conventions for another. People whose practice remains on this superficial level end up with nothing but confusion, not knowing who they are or what they should do.

  Thubten Yeshe

  Prayer, Learning, Practice

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• Focus your mind on what your Highest Self chooses to be.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Self, Focus, Mind

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• The highest type of meditation is done in silence. In silence there are no mantras. Mantras are not essential, but they can be very helpful.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Silence, Meditation

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• ...if use is not an appropriate criterion for decision making in the academic life, what is? Love. ...The virtues of love as a criterion for choosing a college major...it is not pretentious. "Use" is pretentious because it claims to know something about the future that it doesn't really know. Love is immediate... [love] guarantees that you will work to your highest potential...it is part of who you are, and not just something you think, often wrongly, that you can use.

  Leroy S Rouner

  Teaching, College, Love Is

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• We live in a country that talks about being the home of the brave and the land of the free, and we have the highest incarceration rate in the world.

  Bryan Stevenson

  Country, Father, Home

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• ... men of highest genius have been too frequently of extremely shaky morals.

  Tennessee Celeste Claflin

  Men, Genius, Morality

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• The ratio between supervisory and producing personnel is always highest where the intellectuals are in power. In a Communist country it takes half the population to supervise the other half.

  Eric Hoffer

  Country, Population, Half

  "The Temper of Our Time". Book by Eric Hoffer, 1967.

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• I have dear friends in South Carolina, folks who made my life there wonderful and meaningful. Two of my children were born there. South Carolina's governor awarded me the highest award for the arts in the state. I was inducted into the South Carolina Academy of Authors. I have lived and worked among the folks in Sumter, South Carolina, for so many years. South Carolina has been home, and to be honest, it was easier for me to define myself as a South Carolinian than even as an American.

  Kwame Dawes

  Meaningful, Art, Children

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Producing perfection from imperfection is, after all, the highest of art forms.

  Frank Herbert

  Art, Perfection, Form

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.86, Penguin

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• Man's Reason is in such deep insolvency to sense,that tho' she guide his highest flight heav'nward, and teach himdignity morals manners and human comfort,she can delicatly and dangerously bedizenthe rioting joys that fringe the sad pathways of Hell.

  Robert Bridges

  Men, Joy, Pathways

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• The manliness of Christian love, and the putting away from ourselves of all fear, because we are " perfected in love," is one of the highest lessons that the gospel teaches us, and one of the greatest things which the gospel gives us.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Christian, Love Is, Giving

  Alexander Maclaren (1871). “Sermons Preached in Manchester: First series”, p.199

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• Roger_Bacon" title="Roger Bacon">Roger Bacon expressed a feeling which afterwards moved many minds, when he said that if he had the power he would burn all the works of the Stagirite, since the study of them was not simply loss of time, but multiplication of ignorance. Yet in spite of this outbreak every page is studded with citations from Aristotle, of whom he everywhere speaks in the highest admiration.

  George Henry Lewes

  Ignorance, Loss, Feelings

  "Aristotle: a Chapter from the History of Science". Book by George Henry Lewes, 1864.

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• I've said that movies are the highest stakes make-believe game in the world, and this is truly the most highest stakes.

  Channing Tatum

  Believe, Games, World

  Source: collider.com

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• Comprehensibility is the highest law of all. Unity must be there. There must be means of ensuring it. All the things familiar to us from primitive life must also be used in works of art.

  Anton Webern

  Art, Mean, Law

  Anton Webern (1975). “The path to the new music”, European Amer Music Dist Corp

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• To embrace humanism is to embrace the concept that caring for our fellow human beings is our highest calling.

  Sean Faircloth

  Caring, Calling, Embrace

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• Stop judging life! Look at every event as blessed. It is offering you the fastest track to get onto your highest, happiest and most successful state. Your soul is working it all out perfectly. When you accept this you will make life amendments easily and lovingly. Then the pain stops and the joyous creation begins.

  Melanie

  Pain, Blessed, Successful

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• Piety is not an end, but a means: a means of attaining the highest culture by the purest tranquility of soul. Hence it may be observed that those who set up piety as an end and object are mostly hypocrites.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Hypocrite, Mean, Soul

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.3516, Delphi Classics

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• If you have hitherto believed that life was one of the highest value and now see yourselves disappointed, do you at once have to reduce it to the lowest possible price?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Disappointed, Lowest, Ifs

  Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.215, Cambridge University Press

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• We live thetime that a match flickers; we pop the corkof a ginger-beer bottle, and the earthquake swallows us on the instant. Is it not odd, is it not incongruous, is it not, in the highest sense of human speech, incredible, that we should think so highly of the ginger-beer, and regard so little the devouring earthquake?

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Beer, Thinking, Earthquakes

  1881 Virginibus Puerisque,'Aes Triplex'.

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• What more felicitie can fall to creature Than to enjoy delight with libertie, And to be lord of all the workes of Nature, To raine in th' aire from earth to highest skie, To feed on flowres and weeds of glorious feature.

  Edmund Spenser

  Weed, Nature, Fall

  Edmund Spenser, John Payne Collier, Norris Deck (1866). “The poetical works of Edmund Spenser ...”, p.63

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