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  • Sophocles The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.
    Sophocles
    Greek poet (496 - 406)
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  • Abraham H. Maslow The good or healthy society would then be defined as one that permitted people's highest purposes to emerge by satisfying all their basic needs.
    Motivation and Personality (1954)
    Abraham H. Maslow
    American psychologist (1908 - 1970)
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  • Baruch Spinoza The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Abraham Lincoln The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Oscar Wilde The highest as the lowest form of criticism is a mode of autobiography.
    The picture of Dorian Gray (1891)
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The highest compact we can make with our fellow is: 'Let there be truth between us two forevermore.'
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Wayne Gretzky The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.
    Wayne Gretzky
    Canadian ice hockey player and coach (1961 - )
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  • Baruch Spinoza The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, is to understand things by intuition.
    Ethics
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Wayne Dyer The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.
    Wayne Dyer
    American philosopher, self-help author, and a motivational speaker. (1940 - 2015)
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  • George Santayana The highest form of vanity is love of fame.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Billy Graham The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless.
    The quotable Billy Graham (1966)
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Thomas à Kempis The highest in God's esteem are the lowest in their own.
    Thomas à Kempis
    Dutch medieval Augustinian canon, writer and mystic (1380 - 1471)
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  • Henry David Thoreau The highest law gives a thing to him who can use it.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • St. Thomas Aquinas The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.
    St. Thomas Aquinas
    Italian philosopher and theologian (1225 - 1274)
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller The highest of generalizations is the synergetic integration of truth and love.
    Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975)
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Bob Newhart The highest of highs is to have a new routine that you're just breaking in and that's working, and that's - you're one step removed doing a situation comedy because you have a live audience there.
    Bob Newhart
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1929 - )
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  • Blaise Pascal The highest order of mind is accused of folly, as well as the lowest. Nothing is thoroughly approved but mediocrity. The majority has established this, and it fixes its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Samuel Johnson The highest panegyric, therefore, that private virtue can receive, is the praise of servants.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Mark Twain The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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