Quotes 341 till 360 of 495.
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The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, is to understand things by intuition.
Source: Ethics -
The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.
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The highest form of vanity is love of fame.
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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.
Source: The quotable Billy Graham (1966) -
The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.
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The highest in God's esteem are the lowest in their own.
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The highest law gives a thing to him who can use it.
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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.
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The highest of generalizations is the synergetic integration of truth and love.
Source: Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975)― Richard Buckminster Fuller
American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983) -
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.
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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.
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The highest panegyric, therefore, that private virtue can receive, is the praise of servants.
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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.
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The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service.
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The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
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The highest principles for our aspirations and judgments are given to us in the Jewish-Christian religious tradition.
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The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.
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The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.
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The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.
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