Highest - Quotes
The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don`t know anything about.
I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle.
We can only know that we know nothing. And that`s the highest degree of human wisdom.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought.
The teacher`s highest art is to awaken his pupil to the pleasure of creation and recognition.
The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.
To teach a child an instrument without first giving him preparatory training and without developing singing, reading and dictating to the highest level along with the playing is to build upon sand.
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.
The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.
Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.
It`s natural to think that living things must be the handiwork of a designer. But it was also natural to think that the sun went around the earth. Overcoming naive impressions to figure out how things really work is one of humanity`s highest callings.
There comes that mysterious meeting in life when someone acknowledges who we are and what we can be, igniting the circuits of our highest potential.
I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just... in between.