Quotes with second-highest

Quotes 341 till 360 of 495.

  • 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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  • Arthur Hugh Clough The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service.
    Arthur Hugh Clough
    English poet (1819 - 1861)
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  • Charles Darwin The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
    Charles Darwin
    English scientist and biologist (1809 - 1882)
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  • Albert Einstein The highest principles for our aspirations and judgments are given to us in the Jewish-Christian religious tradition.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Albert Schweitzer The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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  • John Ruskin The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Elbert Hubbard The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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