T Quotes
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“The highest qualities of character...must be earned.”
“The highest quality of an individual is to be human. The phrase “to be human” means to follow life wherever it may lead, up and down, down and up, from the bottom of the world to the top, from darkness into light, through each degree of good and evil. As the circle of knowledge widens, life grows more beautiful and heroic. We are part of everything—men, books, cities, railroads—all made from the same atoms and molecules, all living together and dying together, joined into one imperishable unity that can never be divided.”
“The highest ranking woman in the Congress, Cathy McMorris Rodgers who has given birth three times while she's been in Congress. That's pretty impressive.”
“The highest rational achievement of the finest intellects consists in grasping that certain matters lie beyond their powers to grasp.”
Source: Rome, Naples et Florence
“The highest reach of a news-writer is an empty Reasoning on Policy, and vain Conjectures on the public Management.”
“The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.”
Source: The Republic
“The highest reach of science is, one may say, an inventive power, a faculty of divination, akin to the highest power exercised in poetry; therefore, a nation whose spirit is characterised by energy may well be eminent in science; and we have Newton. Shakspeare [sic] and Newton: in the intellectual sphere there can be no higher names. And what that energy, which is the life of genius, above everything demands and insists upon, is freedom; entire independence of all authority, prescription and routine, the fullest room to expand as it will.”
“The highest reaches of music come thrillingly close to the central core and essence of life itself.”
Source: Music for all of us
“The highest reaches of the actor's art begin, I believe, at the point where words cease to play a part.”
“The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.”
“The highest religion has been defined by a negative word: ahimsa.”
Source: The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi
“The highest religion is to rise to universal brother hood; aye to consider all creatures your equals.”
“The highest religion of human is the identity for which he is living rest is either one of the path or unnecessary fight.”
“The highest revelation is that God is in every man.”
Source: A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year
“The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.”
“The highest reward for our toil is not what we get for it but what we become by it. ... Mistakes are not failures. They are proof that we are making an effort. When we understand that, we can more easily move out of our comfort zone, try something new, and improve. ... Improvement demands a commitment to grow long after the mood in which it was made has passed.”
“The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.”
Source: Loyalty in Business: One and Twenty Other Good Things
“The highest sanctity is abolition of differentiation.”
Source: Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World
“The highest science, the loftiest speculation, the mightiest philosophy, which can ever engage the attention of a child of God, is the name, the nature, the person, the work, the doings, and the existence of the great God whom he calls his Father.”
Source: Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon
“The highest self
of the victorious one,
the peaceful one,
is composed
in cold and heat,
pleasure and pain,
so also in pride
and disgrace.”
Source: The Bhagavad Gita
“The highest service to which a man may obtain on earth is to preach the law of God.”
“The highest service we can perform for others is to help them help themselves.”
“The highest skill is the true judgment of values.”
“The highest source of human energy is emotions.”
“The highest spiritual quality, the noblest property of mind a man can have, is this of loyalty ... a man with no loyalty in him, with no sense of love or reverence or devotion due to something outside and above his poor daily life, with its pains and pleasures, profits and losses, is as evil a case as man can be.”
Source: The Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne: Prose works
“The highest spiritual quality, the noblest property of mind a man can have, is this of loyalty.”
Source: The Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne: Prose works
“The highest standards of conduct must be met by everyone in the NFL because it is a privilege to represent the NFL, not a right.”
“The highest state is laughter.”
“The highest state of meditation is Samadhi, where there is no ego anymore, no doubts, no me, no you, no notion of time, no eating, no talking, no walking, no working and not doing anything at all, realizing that the Self is action-less.”
“The highest strength is acquired not in overcoming the world, but in overcoming one's self. Learn to be cruel to thyself, to withstand thy appetites, to bear thy sufferings, and thou shalt become free and able.”
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion
“The highest summit of spiritual perfection is knowledge of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.”
“The highest summits and those elevated above the level of other things are mostly blasted by envy as by a thunderbolt.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lucretius (Illustrated)
“The highest teaching is never written down. It's only communicated from teacher to student because it's a "transmission of the lamp." It's a transmission of mind.”
“The highest technique is to have no technique. My technique is a result of your technique; my movement is a result of your movement.”
“The highest test of the civilization of any race is in its willingness to extend a helping hand to the less fortunate.”
Source: Papers: The Autobiographical Writings
“The highest that a man can attain is to be able to do.”
“The highest thing one can do in literature is to succeed in saying that thing which one meant to say. There is nothing better than that - to make the world see your thoughts as you see them.”
Source: I Await the Devil's Coming: Annotated & Unexpurgated
“The highest thing people can say about an artist is, 'You know, I felt he or she was singing right to me.' If you've got the goods, and you're honest, that's where the thrill comes in, because of the urgency of the people really feeling what they feel. It's right there.”
“The highest things, the things that really matter, we cannot achieve on our own; we have to accept them as gifts and enter in to the dynamic of the gift, so to speak.”
Source: Jesus of Nazareth: From the Baptism in the Jordan to the Transfiguration
“The highest thought is always a thought which contains joy.”
“The Highest Thought is always that thought which contains joy. The Clearest Words are those words which contain truth. The Grandest Feeling is that feeling which you call love.”
Source: Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue
“The highest thoughts are those which are least dependent on language, and the dignity of any composition and praise to which it is entitled are in exact proportion to its dependency of language or expression.”
“The Highest to which people can attain is wonder; and if the prime phenomenon makes them wonder, let them be content; nothing higher can it give them, and nothing further should they seek for behind it; there is the limit.”
“The highest tone is hard to hear.”
“The highest treason a crab can commit is to make a leap for the rim of the bucket.”
“The highest treason in the USA is to say Americans are not loved, no matter where they are, no matter what they are doing there.”
“The highest treason, the meanest treason, is to deny the holiness of this little blue planet on which we journey through the cold void of space.”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.”
“The highest triumph is peace, not revenge—peace heals; revenge wounds.”
Source: The Light in the Heart
“The highest triumph of art, is the truest presentation of nature.”