Highest Quotes

• We may, perhaps, imagine that the creation was finished long ago. But that would be quite wrong. It continues still more magnificently, and at the highest levels of the world.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Science, Long Ago, Would Be

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (2015). “The Divine Milieu”, p.20, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Remember that frost comes latest to those that bloom the highest.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Frost, Remember

  Louisa May Alcott (2014). “Louisa May Alcott: Work, Eight Cousins, Rose in Bloom, Stories & Other Writings: (Library of America #256)”, p.250, Library of America

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• Go ahead, climb up onto the velvet top of the highest stakes table. Place yourself as the bet. Look God in the eyes and finally, for once in your life, lose.

  Adyashanti

  Eye, Winning, Velvet

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• Man only remains hypnotised with the false idea of an ego. When this ghost is off from us, all dreams vanish, and then it is found that the one Self only exists from the highest Being to a blade of grass.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Dream, Men, Self

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3047, Manonmani Publishers

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• Don't be intimidated by people who try to belittle your ambitions. Most of the time they are just jealous of your success or determination to reach the highest peaks of the mountains, and reign over them.

  Robert Cheeke

  Motivational, Determination, Jealous

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• For the sake of historical truth I must verify that only the Greeks, of all the adversaries who confronted us, fought with bold courage and highest disregard of death.

  Adolf Hitler

  Greek, Historical, Sake

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• Without total freedom, every perception, every objective regard, is twisted. It is only the man who is totally free that can look and understand immediately. Freedom implies really, doesn't it, the total emptying of the mind. To completely empty the whole content of the mind — that is real freedom.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Freedom, Real, Men

  "The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti, (1963-1964): The New Mind".

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• Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Wisdom, Enlightenment, Enlightened

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.47, Shambhala Publications

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• We fear our highest possibility. We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments.

  Abraham Maslow

  Perfect, Glimpse, Moments

  Abraham Harold Maslow, Deborah Collins Stephens, Gary Heil (1998). “Maslow on management”, Wiley

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• The very best and highest attainment in this life is to
  remain still and let God act and speak in you.

  Meister Eckhart

  Letting Go, Life Is, Speak

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  Create the highest, grandest vision possible for your life, because you become what you believe

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Believe, Positive Thinking

  Oprah Winfrey, Janet Lowe (1998). “Oprah Winfrey speaks: insight from the world's most influential voice”, John Wiley & Sons

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• The highest development was in the Egyptian and Cabalistic systems, and it was blended with Christian thought in the schools of the Neo-Platonists and the Gnostics...Its studies were only kept alive during the Dark Ages among the Jews who were the chief exponents of its Cabalistic aspect...and it is still alive today.

  Dion Fortune

  Christian, School, Dark

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• Life in its highest state is understanding.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Understanding, States

  L. Ron Hubbard (2007). “Scientology: The Fundamentals of Thought”, p.175, Bridge Publications, Inc.

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• Genius, without work, is certainly a dumb oracle, and it is unquestionably true that the men of the highest genius have invariably been found to be amongst the most plodding, hard-working, and intent men -- their chief characteristic apparently consisting simply in their power of laboring more intensely and effectively than others.

  Samuel Smiles

  Hard Work, Men, Dumb

  Samuel Smiles (1861). “Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct”, p.319

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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 idea that the object of constitutions is not to confirm the predominance of any interest, but to prevent it; to preserve with equal care the independence of labour and the security of property; to make the rich safe against envy, and the poor against oppression, marks the highest level attained by the statesmanship of Greece.

  Lord Acton

  Ideas, Envy, Independence

  John Emerich Edward Dalberg, Lord Acton (2016). “The History of Freedom (and other Essays)”, p.35, Jazzybee Verlag

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• At the heart of happiness lies peace. It is the last and the highest attainment of the soul.

  Hugh Black

  Peace, Lying, Heart

  Hugh Black (1911). “Happiness”

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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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• The inquiry into the proper aims and limits of State agency must be of the highest importance nay, that it is perhaps more vitally momentous than any other political question.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Agency, Political, Inquiry

  "The Limits of State Action". Book by David Sidorsky. Chapter 1, 1792.

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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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• First I have tried to achieve the highest quality of technical facility possible so that I have at my fingertips the availability to create anything I want. Then I paint.

  Audrey Flack

  Technology, Availability, Quality

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• 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.

  Keith Anderson

  Believe, People, Needs

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