Higher Quotes

• There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Peace, Justice, Court

  Mahatma Gandhi (1966). “Collected Works”

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• Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Funny, Sex, Women

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• Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Motivation, Flying High, Aviation

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Meaningful, Perseverance, Truth

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• As I lived up to the highest light I had, higher and higher light came to me.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Peace, Light, Highest

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.16, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, Strength, Success

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• We now need to look beyond our immediate future and aim higher and farther.

  Paul Biya

  Looks, Needs, Aim High

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• Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Strength, Success

  "The American Scholar". Ralph Waldo Emerson's Oration delivered before the Phi Beta Kappa Society, at Cambridge, emersoncentral.com. August 31, 1837.

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• However steep or ramshackle they may be, don't ever despise the stairs which take you up to higher levels!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  May, Levels, Stairs

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• Set your sights high, the higher the better. Expect the most wonderful things to happen, not in the future but right now. Realize that nothing is too good. Allow absolutely nothing to hamper you or hold you up in any way.

  Eileen Caddy

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels, simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious and the greatest healing energy.

  Sai Baba

  Love, Marriage, Wisdom

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• All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

  Immanuel Kant

  Knowledge, Understanding, Perception

  "Critique of Pure Reason" by Immanuel Kant, (B 730), (1781; 1787).

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• The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Growing Up, Keys

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• A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Plato, Lying

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• To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.

  Isaac Newton

  Honor, Distinction, Source

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• The higher the better. It's more about an attitude. High heels empower women in a way.

  Christian Louboutin

  Attitude, High Heels, Empowering

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• There is no god higher than truth.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Truth, Religion

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• I know of no higher fortitude than stubborness in the face of overwhelming odds.

  Louis Nizer

  Odds, Stubborn, Faces

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• The lower you are, the higher your mind will want to soar. It was natural that, bereft and desperate as I was, in the throes of unremitting suffering. I should turn to God

  Yann Martel

  Mind, Suffering, Want

  Yann Martel (2002). “Life Of Pi”, p.381, Canongate Books

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• Life isn't a race to win, it's a school for our higher education.

  Guy Finley

  Life, Education, School

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• The higher the monkey climbs, the more he shows his ass.

  Thomas Watson, Jr.

  Monkeys, Ass, Shows

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• The higher type of man clings to virtue, the lower type of man clings to material comfort. The higher type of man cherishes justice, the lower type of man cherishes the hope of favors to be received.

  Confucius

  Men, Justice, Comfort

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• The excellence and inspiration of truth is in the pursuit, not in the mere having of it. The pursuit of all truth is a kind of gymnastics; a man swings from one truth with higher strength to gain another. The continual glory is the possibility opening before us.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Truth, Inspiration, Gymnastics

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• The idea of Curious Yellow, of surrender to a higher cause, seems to appeal to a certain small subset of humanity. These people manipulate the worm, customizing its payload to establish quisling dictatorships in its shadow, and the horrors these gauleiters invent in its service are far worse than the crude but direct tactics the original worm used.

  Charles Stross

  Ideas, Yellow, People

  Charles Stross (2006). “Glasshouse”, p.164, Penguin

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