T Quotes
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“The highest truth cannot be put into words.”
Source: Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu
“The highest truth in the world is love.”
Source: When Humans Unite: Making A World Without Borders
“The highest truth is daiji, translated as dai jiki in Chinese scriptures. This is the subject of the question the emperor asked Bodhidharma: "What is the First Principle?" Bodhidharma said, "I don't know." "I don't know" is the First Principle.”
“The highest truth is to delete, not to add. To get rid of the things you believe in now. So empty yourself out totally and completely. All of your ideas, your feelings, all have to be emptied out of you. When you become totally and completely empty there is nothing you have to do to fill it up again. Emptiness is realization. Emptiness is Brahman. Emptiness is the Self. Emptiness is your real nature.”
“The highest truth needs no communicating, for it is by its very nature self-propelling. It radiates its influence silently as the rose its fragrance without the intervention of a medium.”
Source: All Religions are True
“The highest truths a person could discover were rooted in the natural world.”
Source: The Wolf Gift
“The highest truths cannot be forced into the type of empirical evidence that only applies to material reality.”
“The highest type of free men should be sought where the highest resistance is constantly overcome: five steps from tyranny, close to the threshold of the danger of servitude.”
Source: The Portable Nietzsche
“The highest type of intelligence, says Aristotle, manifests itself in an ability to see connections where no one has seen them before, that is, to think analogically.”
“The highest type of meditation is done in silence. In silence there are no mantras. Mantras are not essential, but they can be very helpful.”
“The highest use of life is to live for others.”
Source: Lives to Serve Before I Sleep
“The highest use of the Web is getting the information and identifying the places and the possibility of being together physically.”
“The highest view of the Scriptures is not the one that seeks to make an idol of the Bible (biblicism), but the one that allows the biblical text to exalt Christ as the living Word over all creation. The Word became flesh, not ink.”
“The highest virtue does nothing. Yet, nothing needs to be done. The lowest virtue does everything. Yet, much remains to be done.”
“The highest virtue here may be least in another world.”
“The highest virtue is not virtuous. Therefore it has virtue. The lowest virtue holds on to virtue. Therefore it has no virtue.”
“The highest virtue lies in self-learning or self-taught education. For it is the path that all the greatest men or those who have decided to go beyond the multitude, have always followed in every generation.”
“The highest virtue seems as low as a valley.”
“The highest vocation of photography is to explain man to man.”
Source: On photography
“The highest wisdom adopts the humblest of bodies.”
“The highest wisdom and the highest genius have been invariably accompanied with cheerfulness. We have sufficient proofs on record that Shakespeare and Socrates were the most festive companions.”
Source: Nightmare Abbey
“The highest wisdom has but one science-the science of the whole-the science explaining the whole creation and man's place in it.”
Source: WAR AND PEACE Complete Edition – All 15 Books in One Volume (World Classics Series): The Magnum Opus of the Greatest Russian Novelists and Author of Anna Karenina & The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Including the Biography & Memoirs of the Author)
“The highest wisdom is sometimes found in the lowest people.”
“The highest wisdom is to know that you know nothing.”
“The highest, most decisive experience is to be alone with one's own self. You must be alone to find out what supports you, when you find that you can not support yourself. Only this experience can give you an indestructible foundation.”
“The highest, most varied and lasting pleasures are those of the mind.”
Source: the Wisdom of Life: Top of Schopenhauer
“The highest, the only reality, is ever at hand, but for the most part invisible. Genius makes it visible.”
Source: A Cultural History of the Modern Age Vol. 1: Renaissance and Reformation
“The highest-income Americans don't need tax-free health insurance, mortgage interest deductions or deferred taxation on retirement funds.”
“The highfalutin aims of democracy, whether real or imaginary, are always assumed to be identical with its achievements. This, of course, is sheer hallucination. Not one of those aims, not even the aim of giving every adult a vote, has been realized. It has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.”
“The Highland men and women certainly dress differently than we do, even when we're out in the country. Why do you think the Scotti9sh men wear those ridiculous skirts, George?"
Enough was enough. Fagan approached the table and gave her a roguish grin. "'Tisnae a skirt, lass. If I wore something under it, then it would be called a skirt.”
Source: My Highland Spy
“The Highlander was a documentary, and events happened in real time.”
“The Highlanders regale themselves with whisky. They find it an excellent preservation against the winter cold. It is given with great success to the infants in the confluent smallpox.”
“The Highlands: Where the people are wild, and the trees are wind-buckled, and there are lochs which mirror the sky.”
Source: The Highland Witch
“The highlight of my baseball career came in Philadelphia's Connie Mack Stadium when I saw a fan fall out of the upper deck. When he got up and walked away, the crowd booed.”
“The highlight of my career was my first sale, to F&SF, in 1989. Nothing yet has topped that moment. I was weeping in joy and relief. Publishing one story was all that I ever wanted, or expected. Everything since then - award nominations, getting into best-of anthologies, meeting my idols at conventions, drinking with my idols at conventions - has been wonderful, but it's all gravy.”
“The highlight of my career? That's easy, Elvis recording one of my songs.”
“The highlight of my career? The Olympics, of course.”
“The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out of his nose.”
“The highly ambitious person, in spite of all his successes, always remains dissatisfied, in the same way as a greedy baby is never satisfied.”
Source: Envy and Gratitude
“The highly complex, almost mathematical, nature of music creates for it an ironclad protection against the microbes of dilletantism, which penetrate much more easily into the fields of painting, literature, and the theater.”
“The highly motivated people in society are the ones causing all the trouble. It's not the lazy unmotivated folks sitting in front of a TV eating potato chips who bother anyone.”
“The highly motivated young people who comprise the backbone of our military force truly are taking their place as one of America's greatest generations.”
“The highly open expose themselves to new experiences, cultures, people, relationships, norms, ideas, worldviews, art, music, sexual practices, and drugs. They can get infected by nasty, maladaptive memes; they might end up believing in astrology, homeopathy, or Scientology.”
Source: Spent: Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior
“The highly skilled workers at Lima have enabled the plant to grow far beyond its original mission, now providing a wide variety of cutting-edge military vehicles and equipment to the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps.”
“The highly visible IT can elevate its maturity from “controlling to change to innovating,” from “surviving to striving to thriving,” and from “deficiency to efficiency to proficiency.”
Source: Digital Maturity: Take a Journey of a Thousand Miles from Functioning to Delight
“The highs and lows of a creative sojourn—tuning into and following where our True Selves are guiding us to go—are completely natural, but when they happen to us, we may struggle, doubting our inner voice or the very idea of who we are and what we have to offer.”
Source: Leap With Me: A Creative Path to Finding and Following Your True Voice
“The highs and lows of show business is a rollercoaster for sure. There's so many highs, there's just moments of your life where you go, "Wow I can't believe how insanely lucky I am," and then you can turn around and the next moment feel so completely caught up in your own wanting, and desiring, and needing and feel like somehow you're missing something. It's just higher the high, the lower the low.”
“The highs, the lows, the peaks, the valleys, whatever, it's all going to go into the art, whether I'm singing or acting or whatever.”
“The highway is alive tonight But nobody's kiddin' nobody about where it goes I'm sittin' down here in the campfire light With the ghost of old Tom Joad.”
“The highway is path of holiness.”