(407 quotes found)
“Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.”
Winston Churchill
“Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.”
Wayne Dyer
“It is the highest form of self-respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them. To make a mistake is only an error in judgment, but to adhere to it when it is discovered shows infirmity of character.”
Dale E. Turner
“Those who can soar to the highest heights can also plunge to the deepest depths, and the natures which enjoy most keenly are those which also suffer most sharply”
Lucy Maud Montgomery
“From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor's rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own.”
Carl Schurz
“A wounded deer leaps the highest.”
Emily Dickinson
“There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.”
Confucius
“As I lived up to the highest light I had, higher and higher light came to me.”
Peace Pilgrim
“If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever”
St. Thomas Aquinas