Highest Quotes

The shudder of awe is humanity's highest faculty, Even though this world is forever altering its values.

The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.

The highest goal that man can achieve is amazement.

The highest happiness, the purest joys of life, wear out at last.

Loyalty to the leader reaches its highest peak when the follower has personally grown through the mentorship of the leader.

Idealism is the highest form of reason.

The distance from nothing to a little, is ten thousand times more, than from it to the highest degree in this life.

The highest duty of the writer, the composer, the artist, is to remain true to himself and to let the chips fall where they may.

Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

If we learn from those only, of whose lives and opinions we altogether approve, we shall have to turn from many of the highest and profoundest minds.

In the world of thought a man's rank is determined, not by his average work, but by his highest achievement.

The writers who accomplish most are those who compel thought on the highest and most profoundly interesting subjects.

The common prejudice against philosophy is the result of the incapacity of the multitude to deal with the highest problems.

Suffering for truth's sake Is fortitude to highest victory, And to the faithful death the gate of life.

Lifted up so high I disdained subjection, and thought one step higher would set me highest.

When GOD is our deepest pleasure we display Him as our highest treasure.

Love can climb the highest mountain or sink to the lowest depth

Men who cherish for women the highest respect are seldom popular with them.

The head has the most beautiful appearance, as well as the highest station, in a human figure.

Wall-to-wall masterpieces, after all, ought to be preferred to wall-to-wall decorative arts, even if the decorative arts are of the highest quality peppered and salted with dukes and tiaras.

Poetry is not only the most concise way of conveying the human experience; it also offers the highest possible standards for any linguistic operation.

The dance is the highest symbol of life itself.

[Writers are] the highest paid secretaries in the world.

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

Tragedy is the highest form of art.

A diverse and lively collection, the highest art of the interview.

The Colombian economy is very strong. We have one of the highest rates of growth in Latin America.

There is no debating that, under President Obama, corporate profits are at their highest levels in decades.

motivation is highest when the probability of success is 50 percent: We don't get involved if the task is too easy or too hard.

The wretched beings depicted by Millet touch us profoundly because he loved them profoundly. They have nothing in common with vulgar ugliness. Beauty will always remain the highest aim of art.

He that is highest and worthiest was most fully made-nought and most utterly despised.

Based on history the expectations are simply the highest, it kind of could become a burden for you or it could be something that you are really proud of, you know so I take the second one.

Such men as fortune raises from a mean estate to the highest elevation by way of a joke.

The examples of vice at home corrupt us more quickly and easily than others, since they steal into our minds under the highest authority.

God is each truly and exalted thing, therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are not nature and the world individuals?

The highest good and solely useful is liberal education.

The highest percentage of England's top jobs are filled by graduates from about two different universities.

That's what's wrong with the people in this world; they believe they can do well by just getting by when they need to aim for the highest.

In terms of going into the West Wing, I will do whatever the president-elect and the vice president-elect - I worked with Mike Pence for 10 years - they believe is my best and highest use for them.

The highest ranking woman in the Congress, Cathy McMorris Rodgers who has given birth three times while she's been in Congress. That's pretty impressive.

Port Security is one of our weakest security links, and it must be one of our highest priorities.

Quebecers have rarely in their history been better represented than they are right now - at the highest levels of the federal government.

The highest purpose in this universe is the creation of an effect.

Obedience is an emblem of our faith in the wisdom and power of the highest authority, even God.

When you know your not going to die, you have to ask yourself... What's the highest and best use for myself.

The highest tone is hard to hear.

The highest benevolence acts without purpose.

Highest good is like water. Because water excels in benefiting the myriad creatures without contending with them and settles where none would like to be, it comes closest to the way.

In the highest antiquity, the people did not know that there were rulers. In the next age they loved them and praised them. In the next they feared them; in the next they despised them.

The very highest is barely known. Then comes that which people know and love, Then that which is feared, Then that which is despised. Who does not trust enough will not be trusted.