Higher Quotes - page 3

Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
I have a higher and greater standard of principle. Washington could not lie. I can lie but I won't. View quote
Mark Twain
The time period lying between command of goods of a higher order and possession of the corresponding goods of lower order can never be eliminated. View quote
Carl Menger
The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly. View quote
Friedrich Nietzsche
On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow. View quote
Friedrich Nietzsche
There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there. View quote
Albert Einstein
In sum, the processes of evolution create initially comparatively simple dynamical systems on particular levels of organisation. The processes then lead to the progressive complexification of the existing systems and, ultimately, to the creation of simpler systems on the next higher organisational level, where complexification begins anew. Thus evolution moves from the simpler to the more complex, and from the lower to the higher level of organisation. View quote
Ervin László
Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law. View quote
Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius
Taking courage and looking forward from the standpoint of higher ideas born of the multiplication of the arts, they gave up huts and began to build houses with foundations, having brick or stone walls, and roofs of timber and tiles; next, observation and application led them from fluctuating and indefinite conceptions to definite rules of symmetry. Perceiving that nature had been lavish in the bestowal of timber and bountiful in stores of building material, they... embellished them with luxuries. View quote
Vitruvius
Now, my father Matthias was not only eminent on account of is nobility, but had a higher commendation on account of his righteousness, and was in great reputation in Jerusalem, the greatest city we have. View quote
Flavius Josephus
American workers won't be able to compete fairly for jobs until companies have to pay higher wages in countries like China and India. (Andy Stern)
So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that are lower or less rational. View quote
Charles Cooley
Ordinary citizens are obliged and, if need be, compelled by force to meet their commitments. But let higher obligations of an international order be involved, and governments repudiate them, more often than not with a disdainful shrug of the shoulders. View quote
Charles Albert Gobat
The goal of higher education should be to champion the airing of all honest viewpoints. Nothing less is acceptable. View quote
Bill O'Reilly
Set your sights high, the higher the better. Expect the most wonderful things to happen, not in the future but right now. Realize that nothing is too good. Allow absolutely nothing to hamper you or hold you up in any way. View quote
Eileen Caddy
We can become inspired to shape a higher, more ideal future, and when we do, miracles happen. View quote
James Redfield
For millions of girls around the world, motherhood comes too early. Those who bear children as adolescents suffer higher maternal mortality and morbidity rates, and their children are more likely to die in infancy. View quote
Esther Duflo
Human life is held in much higher esteem, and the taking of it, whether in private quarrel or by judicial procedure, is looked upon much more seriously than it was formerly. View quote
Elihu Root
Holding a tear back makes them drain upward, higher and higher, until one day your head just explodes and you're left with a stub of a neck and nothing more. View quote
Alice Hoffman
The idea of eternity lives in all of us. We thirst to live in a belief which raises our small personality to a higher coherence - a coherence which is human and yet superhuman, absolute and yet steadily growing and developing, ideal and yet real. View quote
Christian Lous Lange
The higher the voice the smaller the intellect. (Ernest Newman)
There's a higher form of happiness in commitment. I'm counting on it. View quote
Claire Forlani
The constitutions of Maryland and New York are founded in higher wisdom. View quote
Ezra Stiles
Higher ceilings allow the use indirect lighting, which is much healthier and reduces glare. View quote
Helmut Jahn
No matter how many goals you have achieved, you must set your sights on a higher one. View quote
Jessica Savitch
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