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“The highest culture is not obtained from the teacher when at school or college, so much as by our ever diligent self-education when we become men.”

Men Self School Culture Teacher College Highest Self Education Diligent

Author:Samuel Smiles

“Wisdom is the highest position a man can attain!”

Men Position Highest

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Wise man is a good Sherpa; he takes you to the highest places!”

Men Wise Highest Sherpas

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Existence itself stands in need of nothing, for it lacks nothing, whereas everything else needs it, because outside of it there is nothing. Nothingness stands in need of existence, as a sick man lacks health and is in need. Health has no need of a sick man. To want nothing, therefore, characterizes the highest perfection, is fullest and purest existence.”

Men Want Needs Existence Highest Perfection Sick Nothingness Sick Man

Author:Meister Eckhart

“Once a man recognizes himself as a being surrounded by other beings in this world and begins to respect his life and take it to the highest value, he becomes a thinking being. Then he values other lives and experiences them as part of his own life. With that, his goal is to help everyone take their life to the highest value; anything which limits or destroys a life is evil. That is morality. That is how men are related to the world around them.”

Thinking Men World Helping Life Is Values Evil Goal This World Morality Limits Highest Related

Author:Albert Schweitzer

“Every man has a choice between love of truth and love of repose. Love of repose brings him a solid reputation and peaceful life; love of truth keeps him in suspense. A man who loves truth respects the highest law of his being.”

Men Law Choices Highest And Love Every Man Reputation Peaceful Suspense Love Life Repose Truth Love Peaceful Life Truth And Love

Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I believe that our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey. I believe that whenever a human being, of even the highest intelligence and culture, delivers an opinion upon a matter apart from his particular and especial line of interest, training and experience, it will always be an opinion of so foolish and so valueless a sort that it can be depended upon to suggest to our Heavenly Father that the human being is another disappointment and that he is no considerable improvement upon the monkey.”

Source: Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 2: The Complete and Authoritative Edition

“The novel is the highest example of subtle interrelatedness that man has discovered.”

Men Novel Example Highest Subtle Interrelatedness

Book:Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

“Man was made for the highest activity, which is, in fact, his rest.”

Men Made Facts Activity Highest

Book:The Ascent to Truth

Source: The Ascent to Truth

“Though one should live through all the time from Adam and all the time to come before the judgment day doing good works, yet he who, energising in his highest, purest part, crosses from time to eternity, verily in the sight of God this man conceives and does far more than anyone who lives throughout all past and future time, because this now includes the whole of time. One master says that in crossing over time into the now each power of the soul will surpass itself. . . .”

Men Should Doe Soul Whole Past Masters Judgment Highest Crosses Eternity Sight Adam Good Work Doing Good Crossings Future Time Judgment Day Crossing Over

Author:Meister Eckhart

“To call a man a characteristically Oxford man is, in my opinion, to give him the highest compliment that could be paid to any human being.”

Men Giving Humans Human Beings Opinion Highest Paid Compliment Oxford

Author:William E. Gladstone

“Man is still at the learning stage, and mankind is so arrogant to think that he's the highest form of evolution on earth. There's so much of the brain that we still don't use, and that's all I ever try to do - go to the next level”

Thinking Men Trying Stills Use Earth Form Next Levels Brain Mankind Stage Evolution Highest Arrogant Next Level

Author:Marilyn Manson

“Our forefathers were not only brave. I believe they were right. I believe that what they meant was that every man born had equal right to grow from scratch by way of his own power unhindered to the highest expression of himself possible to him.”

Men Way Believe I Believe Grows Born Expression Equal Highest Brave Every Man Scratches Forefathers

Book:1949-1959

Source: 1949-1959

“The act of praying is the very highest energy of which the human mind is capable; praying, that is, with the total concentration of the faculties. The great mass of worldly men and of learned men are absolutely incapable of prayer.”

Men Mind Humans Energy Prayer Praying Highest Mass Capable Concentration Faculty Human Mind Incapable Worldly

Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“The traitor of other races is generally confined to the mediocre or irresponsible individual, but, unfortunately, the traitors among the Negro race are generally to be found among the men with the highest place in education and society, the fellows who call themselves leaders.”

Men Found Individual Race Leader He Man Highest Fellows Mediocre Confined Irresponsible Traitor

Book:Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey

Source: Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey

“The highest kind of man is the one who does before talking and practices what he professes.”

Men Kind Doe Talking Practice Highest

Author:Confucius

“Though it is only in a very imperfect state of the world's arrangements that anyone can best serve the happiness of others by the absolute sacrifice of his own, yet, so long as the world is in that imperfect state, I fully acknowledge that the readiness to make such a sacrifice is the highest virtue which can be found in man.”

Men World Long States Found Virtue Sacrifice Highest Absolutes Acknowledge Imperfect Arrangements Readiness

Book:The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill

Source: The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill

“Society takes upon itself the right to inflict appalling punishment on the individual, but it also has the supreme vice of shallowness, and fails to realize what it has done. When the man's punishment is over, it leaves him to himself; that is to say, it abandons him at the very moment when its highest duty towards him begins.”

Men Done Moments Individual Realizing Failing Duty Highest Vices Supreme Punishment Abandon Over It Shallowness

Book:The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis,

Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis,

“I believe in Spiritualism; I advocate free love in the highest, purest sense, as the only cure for the damnation by which men corrupt God's most holy institution of sexual relations.”

Men Believe I Believe Holy Highest Relation Institutions I Believe In Cures Damnation Spiritualism Free Love

Author:Victoria Woodhull

“Man is at his greatest and highest when upon his knees he comes face to face with God.”

Men Faces Highest Knees Face To Face

Book:Studies in the Sermon on the Mount

Source: Studies in the Sermon on the Mount

“No limits are set to the ascent of man, and to each and everyone the highest stands open. Here it is only your personal choice that decides.”

Men Choices Limits Highest Ascent Personal Choice

Book:Ten Rungs: Collected Hasidic Sayings

Source: Ten Rungs: Collected Hasidic Sayings

“As Commander-in-Chief, I take pleasure in commending the reading of the Bible to all who serve in the Armed Forces of the United States. Throughout the centuries, men of many faiths and diverse origins have found in the Sacred Book words of wisdom, counsel, and inspiration. It is a fountain of strength...an aid in attaining the highest aspiration of the human soul.”

“Treason is the highest crime of a civil nature of which a man can be guilty.”

Men Crime Highest Guilty Treason

Book:A Dictionary of the English Language: Intended to Exhibi ... : in Two Volumes

Source: A Dictionary of the English Language: Intended to Exhibi ... : in Two Volumes

“When cities were first founded, an old Egyptian scribe tells us, the mission of the founder was to 'put gods in their shrines.' The task of the coming city is not essentially different: its mission is to put the highest concerns of man at the center of all his activities.”

Men Firsts Different Cities Activity Highest Concern Tasks Missions Founders Egyptian Shrines Scribes

Author:Lewis Mumford

“To serve the Word is to fulfill the highest function of which man is capable.”

Men Highest Capable Function

Book:The Ministry of the Word

Source: The Ministry of the Word

“By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.”

Men Firsts Made Wish Pay Marriage Wife Married Highest Compliment Married Man

Book:The Table Talk of Dr. Johnson: Comprising Opinions and Anecdotes of Life and Literature, Men, Manners, and Morals

Source: The Table Talk of Dr. Johnson: Comprising Opinions and Anecdotes of Life and Literature, Men, Manners, and Morals

“We should understand the limitations of war. We should understand the sacrifices our young men and women go through losing lives and limbs. And they should only do it for the highest of purposes.”

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Author:Rand Paul

“Can we get out of this system something good for us? We could, if we were united with an intelligent self-interest that we could push, we might be able to get something. But, America is out to destroy the little man - I'm talking about those in the highest places. Flint, Michigan [contaminated water supply] was not an accident, that's by design.”

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Author:Louis Farrakhan

“Man V. Food is the highest-rated show in the Travel Channel's history, so clearly there's going to be a correlation.”

Men Shows Highest Correlation

Author:Adam Richman

“Your highest thought, however, ye shall have it commanded unto you by me - and it is this: man is something that is to be surpassed.”

Book:THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA - A Book for All and None (World Classics Series): Philosophical Novel

Source: THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA - A Book for All and None (World Classics Series): Philosophical Novel

“As poetry is the highest speech of man, it can not only accept and contain, but in the end express best everything in the world, or in himself, that he discovers. It will absorb and transmute, as it always has done, and glorify, all that we can know. This has always been, and always will be, poetry's office.”

Knows Men World Ends Done Accepting Speech Office Highest Poetry Is Can Not Glorify

Author:Conrad Aiken

“If our supreme value is the development of the Western tradition - of a man for whom the highest thing in life is man, for whom love for man, respect for man, and the dignity of man, are supreme values - then we cannot ask the question that says, "if it is better for our survival, might we drop these values?"”

Ifs Men Might Life Is Values Asks Development Survival Highest Tradition Dignity Western Supreme Things In Life

Author:Erich Fromm

“I'm deciding where I am best for this president-elect [Donald Trump] and this vice president-elect [Mike Pence] in due course. But there are many qualified men and women who can serve him at the highest levels.”

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Author:Kellyanne Conway

“This is a God-given right of any man.Anytime you have a man who is getting lynched, and what are his people supposed to do? Sit around and forgive the lyncher or wait on the United States government to go in and get the lyncher, like the United States government did in the case of, of Charles Mack Parker, and the FBI found who were the guilty lynchers, and right to this day, the FBI, the highest law enforcement body in the land, has yet to bring the lynchers of Mack Parker to justice?”

“I guess high verbal skills are highest in my list of necessary qualifications for a man - for anyone actually. I like to talk. And I don't necessarily move far, but I move fast.”

Men Moving Skills Highest Lists Qualifications

Author:Carrie Fisher

“Millions of people are unable to vote due to felony convictions with the highest rates among black men. People in prison are denied the right to vote in 48 states, and while we accept that as normal in the United States, in other western democracies people in prison do have the right to vote.”

People Men States Black United Accepting Millions United States Democracy Normal Highest Vote Prison Western Rate Conviction Dues Denied Right To Vote Felony

Author:Michelle Alexander

“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.”

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Book:Marilyn: A Biography

Source: Marilyn: A Biography

“Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.”

Men Facts Christian Literature Christianity Democracy Rights Highest Roots

Author:Novalis

“Art is elemental. Reason alone as it's expressed in the sciences can't be man's complete answer to reality, and it can't express everything that man can, wants to, and has to express. I think God built this into man. Art along with science is the highest gift God has given him.”

Thinking Men Want Art Reason Reality Given Answers Highest Art Is Built Elementals

Author:Pope Benedict XVI

“From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man - the function of his reasoning mind.”

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Author:Ayn Rand

“Perhaps religious conscience upsets the designs of those who feel that the highest wisdom and authority comes from government.”

Men Feels Firsts Government Nations Religious Liberty Design Authority Highest Conscience Constitution Upset Trusted Religious Liberty

Author:Mitt Romney

“Bin Laden was born filthy rich and died in a rich man's house, which he had painstakingly built to the highest specifications.”

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Author:Salman Rushdie

“The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry.”

Men Spirit Found Highest Mathematics Excellence Delight Math And Science Exaltation Touchstones Mathematics And Science Mathematical Beauty

Book:The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell

Source: The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell

“Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures-in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together.”

Men Humans Stills Together Voice Century Communication Highest Aim Accomplishment Mail Transport Human Voice

Author:Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.”

Men Inspirational Long Growth Wise Achievement Highest Climbs Summit

Book:The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion

Source: The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion

“I believe that dance communicates man's deepest, highest and most truly spiritual thoughts and emotions far better than words, spoken or written.”

Men Believe Spiritual I Believe Emotion Written Highest Dance Communicate Thoughts And Emotions

Author:Ted Shawn

“An unschooled man who knows how to meditate upon the Lord has learned far more than the man with the highest education who does not know how to meditate.”

Knows Men Doe Prayer Education Lord Know How Worship Highest Worship God Stanley High School Graduation Worship The Lord

Book:How to Listen to God

Source: How to Listen to God

“Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.”

Source: The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts

“The man form is higher than the angel form; of all forms it is the highest. Man is the highest being in creation, because he aspires to freedom.”

Men Form Creation Higher Highest Angel Shy Aspire Benevolence

Author:Paramahansa Yogananda

“The highest goal that man can achieve is amazement.”

Men Goal Achieve Highest Amazement

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe