Highest Quotes

The arts, as a reflection of human existence at its highest, have always and spontaneously lived up to this demand of plenitude. No mature style of art in any culture has ever been simple.

Flow occurs in your life when your highest skills are matched to challenges that quite exactly meet them.

The highest function of ecology is the understanding of consequences.

The secret of contentment is the realization that life is a gift, not a right. Next to faith this is the highest art - to be content with the calling in which God has placed you.

Who can wonder at the attractiveness... of the bar, for our ambitious young men, when the highest bribes of society are at the feet of the successful orator?

The artist's interest cannot be restricted to a single field; he must seek the highest perception of everything, of the whole and its details.

It is not selfish to be happy. It is your highest purpose. Your joy is the greatest contribution you can make to life on the planet. A heart at peace with its owner blesses everyone it touches.

The highest measure of democracy is neither the 'extent of freedom' nor the 'extent of equality', but rather the highest measure of participation.

I focus on things that are the highest value and do them perfectly.

If Hell were possible, it would be the shortest cut to the highest heaven. For verily God loveth.

Beauty is at once the ultimate principle and the highest aim of art.

The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the body.

Teaching is the highest form of understanding.

The little things of life, sweet and excellent in their place, must not be the things lived for; the highest must be sought and followed; the life of heaven must be begun here on earth.

This is the most exciting part of being human. It is using our brains in the highest way. Otherwise we are just healthy animals

To ignite your confidence and reclaim your courage, you must step into the highest vision of who you are. The only way to do this is to make the journey back into the arms of the Divine.

The highest wisdom adopts the humblest of bodies.

A highly cultivated taste, a taste that is knowledgeable and eclectic, is likely to be exciting and provocative, a personal taste at its highest level.

The ideal of morality has no more dangerous rival than the ideal of highest strength, of most powerful life. It is the maximum of the savage.

If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?

The public impression is that the government, industry or the highest bidder can buy a scientist to add credibility to any message. That crucial quality of impartiality is being lost.

I find comedy to be one of the highest of the art forms.

Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality.

The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature, in her manner of operation.

To conquer the enemy without resorting to war is the most desirable. The highest form of generalship is to conquer the enemy by strategy.

Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to human welfare.

For our soul is so preciously loved of him that is highest, that it over-passeth the knowing of all creatures.

In making tactical dispositions, the highest pitch you can attain is to conceal them.

Now [in 2016] I have the highest turnout in the state of Minnesota. And Minnesota is the highest turnout state in the country.

To my father, business was the highest calling, but to my mother, medicine was the top profession.

Trust is the highest form of human motivation.

Between the shores of the oceans and the summit of the highest mountain is a secret route that you must absolutely take before being one with the sons of the Earth.

Great talents ripen late; the highest notes are hard to hear.

Total depravity means the entire absence of holiness, not the highest intensity of sin. A totally depraved man is not as bad as he can be, but he has no holiness, that is, no supreme love of God

The highest virtue is not virtuous. Therefore it has virtue. The lowest virtue holds on to virtue. Therefore it has no virtue.

The highest form of success comes to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship or from bitter toil, and who, out of these, wins the splendid ultimate triumph.

The highest proof of civility is that the whole public action of the State is directed on securing the greatest good of the greatest number.

The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the lightning strikes the highest mountain.

There are many occasions when the highest praise one can receive is the attack of some given scoundrel.

We are known in a depth of darkness through which we ourselves do not even dare to look. And at the same time, we are seen in a height of a fullness which surpasses our highest vision.

The highest virtue does nothing. Yet, nothing needs to be done. The lowest virtue does everything. Yet, much remains to be done.

Love possesses seven hundred wings, and each one extends from the highest heaven to the lowest earth.

One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.

The University of Nebraska says that elderly people that drink beer or wine at least four times a week have the highest bone density. They need it - they're the ones falling down the most.

Do not talk to me of goodness, of abstract justice, of nature law. Necessity is the highest law, public welfare is the highest justice.

The best word shakers were the ones who understood the true power of words. They were the ones who could climb the highest.

After theology I give to music the highest place and the greatest honor.

Next to the Word of God, music deserves the highest praise.

He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft.

The highest form of patriotism is dissent.