Highest Quotes
The highest compliment one can be paid by another human being is to be told: 'Because of what you are, you are essential to my happiness.'
Never utter a word if it is not from your navel point and it doesn't confirm your regal, highest self.
The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements, as well as one's deepest failures is a definite symptom of maturity.
This I regard as history's highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds.
In this culture, God is not the highest entity; mukti or liberation is the highest goal. We are willing to use God as a stepping stone, if needed.
. . . to know the order of nature, and regard the universe as orderly is the highest function of the mind.
Think with your heart. See with your heart. Hear with your heart. Feel with your heart. Act with your hear. Speak with your heart. For love is the highest, most powerful, durable human capacity.
Skepticism rather than credulity is the highest principle that the human intellect can use to ennoble our existence.
The highest thinkers of the ages, the seers of the tribes and the nations, have been optimists.
Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
As the most religious country of the 18 surveyed, the U.S. also comes in with the highest rates for teen pregnancy and for gonorrhea and syphilis.
I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
Shadows are in reality, when the sun is shining, the most conspicuous thing in a landscape, next to the highest lights.
Wise people have an inward sense of what is beautiful, and the highest wisdom is to trust this intuition and be guided by it.
Art comes into the highest part of the mind, that with which we can know the presence of God.
To call a man a characteristically Oxford man is, in my opinion, to give him the highest compliment that could be paid to any human being.
Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.
Creativity is an inherent human quality of the highest order. When we create, we become more than the sum of our parts.
... all education must be unsound which does not propose for itself some object; and the highest of all objects must be that of living a life in accordance with God's Will.
the highest point a man can attain is not Knowledge, or Virtue, or Goodness, or Victory, but something even greater, more heroic and more despairing: Sacred Awe!
To admit ignorance is the highest knowledge. It is the necessary condition for all learning.
To suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree
You will have the highest of highs and the lowest of lows, just remember to always handle yourself with grace and dignity.
The mother is the most precious possessions of the nation, so precious that society advances its highest well-being when it protects the functions of the mother.
Friendship cannot become permanent unless it becomes spiritual. There must be fellowship in the deepest things of the soul, community in the highest thoughts, sympathy with the best endeavors.
Memory selects single important images, just as the camera does. In that manner both are able to isolate the highest moments of living.
What's highest and best for you is always what's highest and best for everyone around you.
I have watched constantly that in our work the highest moral and spiritual standards are upheld, whether my productions deal with fable or with stories of living action.
Thus doth the ever-changing course of things Run a perpetual circle, ever turning; And that same day, that highest glory brings, Brings us unto the point of back-returning.
The highest of the world's mountains, it seems, has to make but a single gesture of magnificence to be the lord of all, vast in unchallenged and isolated supremacy.
The theatre is my drug. And my illness is so far advanced that my physic must be of the highest quality.
Once you realize how effortless the highest way of life is, it takes tremendous effort to assume the opposite.
He who is required by the necessity of his position to speak the highest things is compelled by the same necessity to exemplify the highest things.
A real leader has the ability to motivate others to their highest level of achievement; then gives them the opportunity and the freedom to grow.
Oh, I think it's definitely spiritual. All music is. I think it's maybe one of the highest forms of spirituality.
