T Quotes
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“The highest of characters is his who is as ready to pardon the moral errors of mankind as if he were every day guilty of them himself; and as cautious of committing a fault as if he never forgave one.”
“The highest of distinctions is service to others.”
“The highest of generalizations is the synergetic integration of truth and love.”
Source: Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking
“The highest of the world's mountains, it seems, has to make but a single gesture of magnificence to be the lord of all, vast in unchallenged and isolated supremacy.”
“The highest panegyric, therefore, that private virtue can receive, is the praise of servants.”
Source: The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752
“The highest path to enlightenment is to be true to yourself and perform all actions in the vision of the soul; everything will fall into place.”
“The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher plain.”
“The highest pay cheque my mother ever received funded the building of a nursery school in Shepherd's Bush - the school cost well over three times the money she donated to the making of the film 'The Palestinian.' Unsurprisingly this always goes unmentioned in the press.”
“The highest peace is the peace between opposites.”
“The highest percentage of African Americans own their own homes today than ever in our nation's history.”
“The highest percentage of England's top jobs are filled by graduates from about two different universities.”
“The highest percentage of respondents say that biggest problem in the country is the government. The biggest problem facing our country today is that our government is terrible. Dissatisfaction with the government, problem numero uno by a mile.”
“The highest perfection of altruism, the ultimate altruism, is bodhicitta complemented by wisdom. Bodhicitta—the aspiration to bring about the welfare of all sentient beings and to attain buddhahood for their sake—is really the distilled essence, the squeezed juice, of all the Buddha’s teachings, because ultimately, the Buddha’s intention is to lead all sentient beings to perfect enlightenment, complete omniscience. Since it is bodhicitta that determines whether or not our practice becomes the path to enlightenment, bodhicitta is truly the heart essence of all the teachings of the Buddha.”
Source: Illuminating the Path to Enlightenment: A Commentary on Atisha Dipamkara Shrijnana's A Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment and Lama Je Tsong Khapa's Lines of Experience
“The highest perfection of human life consists in the mind of man being detached from care, for the sake of God.”
Source: On the Truth of the Catholic Faith: pts. 1-2. Providence
“The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of graceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.”
Source: On the Decay of the Art of Lying
“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.”
“The highest person is he who is of most use to humankind.”
“The highest philosophers, in explaining the mystery of this world, are obliged to call in the aid of another.”
“The highest place was given to Him, who died on the cross, far above all principality and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named. There He is now the Man in the Glory. Once more let me state it, the Lord Jesus Christ is corporeally present in the highest heaven. Everything depends on this. If His physical resurrection and corporeal presence in the highest heaven is denied, His present work and future work are an impossibility, and we rob ourselves of every comfort joy and peace. Then, too, His atoning work on the cross has no meaning for us.”
“The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labor.”
Source: Mark Twain’s Letters & Speeches (Annotated Edition)
“the highest point a man can attain is not Knowledge, or Virtue, or Goodness, or Victory, but something even greater, more heroic and more despairing: Sacred Awe!”
Source: Zorba the Greek
“The highest point at which human life and art meet is in the ordinary. To look down on the ordinary is to despise what you can't have. Show me a man who fears being ordinary, and I'll show you a man who is not yet a man.”
Source: Thirst for love
“The highest point of Christian experience is to press forward. It is a distinguishing trait in the character of every good man that he grows in grace. Grace in the heart as certainly improves and advances, as a tree thrives in a kindly and well watered soil.”
“The highest point of humility consists in not merely acknowledging one's abjection, but in taking pleasure therein, not from any want of breadth or courage, but to give the more glory to God's Divine Majesty, and to esteem one's neighbour more highly than one's self.”
Source: The Saint Francis de Sales Collection [16 Books]
“The highest point of music for me is to become in a place where there is no desire, no craving, wanting to do anything else. It is the best place you have ever been, and yet there is nothing there.”
“The highest point of yesterday should be the lowest point of today”
“The highest point outward things can bring unto, is the contentment of the mind; with which no estate can be poor, without which all estates will be miserable.”
Source: Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks
“The highest point to which a weak but experienced mind can rise is detecting the weakness of better men.”
“The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service.”
“The highest possible form of treason is to say that Americans aren’t loved wherever they go, whatever they do.”
Source: Cat's Cradle: A Novel
“The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.”
“The highest power is the human mind. That's where God came from and my belief in God is my belief in myself.”
“The highest praise a writer can give another is to say he wishes he had written his book. I wish I had written Forty Words for Sorrow. Giles Blunt has a tremendous talent. If you miss Forty Words for Sorrow, you'll miss one of best novels of 2001.”
“The highest praise of God consists in the denial of him by the atheist who finds creation so perfect that it can dispense with a creator.”
“The highest price we can pay for anything; is to ask it.”
Source: Imaginary conversations of Greeks and Romans
“The highest principles for our aspirations and judgments are given to us in the Jewish-Christian religious tradition.”
Source: Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words
“the highest priority for any government concerned with its own future and the peace of the world community ought to be the facilities it provides for the care and nurturance of young children.”
“The highest priority you can have is education.”
“The highest privilege is the grace to pray.”
“The highest prize in a world of men is the most beautiful woman available on your arm and living there in her heart loyal to you.”
Source: Marilyn: A Biography
“The highest prize we can receive for creative work is the joy of being creative. Creative effort spent for any other reason than the joy of being in that light filled space, love, god, whatever we want to call it, is lacking in integrity. . .”
“The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.”
“The highest proof of civility is that the whole public action of the State is directed on securing the greatest good of the greatest number.”
Source: Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.”
Source: An Anthology
“The highest purpose in this universe
is the creation of an effect.”
“The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature, in her manner of operation.”
Source: Silence: Lectures and Writings
“The highest purpose of art is to inspire.”
“The highest purpose of dating is friendship”
Source: Dating and Friendship: A New Model For A Lasting Love Relationship
“The highest purpose of education is to unlearn what we once took for granted, to replace certainty with subtlety, prejudice with compassion, and destiny with possibility.”
“The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.”