Top 1200 Highest Form Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

What we call the highest and the lowest in nature are both equally perfect. A willow bush is as beautiful as the human form divine.

To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness.

How poetic you are," she said. "I've a notion that poetry is the highest form of self-deception.

Humility leads to strength and not to weakness. It is the highest form of self-respect to admit mistakes and to make amends for them.

If what your country is doing seems to you practically and morally wrong, is dissent the highest form of patriotism?

We must understand that the highest form of freedom carries with it the greatest measure of discipline.

Dissent is the highest form of patriotism, and I intend to continue to push my country to respect the rights of all its citizens. I will not be silenced.

I know you won't believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.

Art in its highest form is art that serves and instructs society and human development.

During the 1960s, one neighborhood in San Francisco had the lowest income, the highest unemployment rate, the highest proportion of families with incomes under four thousand dollars a year, the least educational attainment, the highest tuberculosis rate, and the highest proportion of substandard housing ... That neighborhood was called Chinatown. Yet, in 1965, there were only five persons of Chinese ancestry committed to prison in the entire state of California.

The highest form of leadership is one in which a leader raises up other leaders - not as an accident, but as a result of conscious effort.

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

There is in the chemist a form of thought by which all ideas become visible in the mind as strains of an imagined piece of music. This form of thought is developed in Faraday in the highest degree, whence it arises that to one who is not acquainted with this method of thinking, his scientific works seem barren and dry, and merely a series of researches strung together, while his oral discourse when he teaches or explains is intellectual, elegant, and of wonderful clearness.

I love puns. I've been known to turn the car around just to take advantage of a good pun situation. It really is the highest form of humor.

The highest form of love is the love that allows for intimacy without the annihilation of difference.

It is the highest form of self-respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them.

During President George W. Bush's two terms, you couldn't drive far without seeing a particular bumper sticker: 'Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.'

Do not think only of your own joy, but vow to save all beings from suffering. This is sharing in its highest form and purity beyond all poisons of this world.

Imitation is the highest form of flattery, but clones kind of get it wrong because we are promoting individuality and being proud of being yourself.

The highest form of worship is to find the least among you and treat them like Jesus.

You are God's highest form of creation. You are a living breathing creative magnet. You have the ability to control what you attract into your life.

I don't think humanity is the highest form of life that will ever exist in the universe. Maybe that's a bit cynical. But most of the people I know are loving, kind, doing their best.

The highest possible form of treason is to say that Americans aren’t loved wherever they go, whatever they do.

God's highest gifts--talent, beauty, feeling, imagination, power--they carry with them the possibility of the highest heaven and the lowest hell. Be sure that it is by that which is highest in you that you may be lost.

I like natural disasters and I think that they may be the highest form of art possible to experience

I know imitation is the highest form of flattery, but stealing one's identity is totally different.

Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.

Do not go for glass beads leaving the mine of diamonds. This life is a great chance. What, seekest thou the pleasures of the world? He is the fountain of all bliss. See for the highest, aim at that highest, and you shall reach the highest.

Mankind occurs as male or female, as something or nothing. Woman has no share in ontological reality, no relation to the thing-in-itself, which, in the deepest interpretation, is the absolute, is God. Man in his highest form, the genius, has such a relation, and for him the absolute is either the conception of the highest worth of existence, in which case he is a philosopher; or it is the wonderful fairyland of dreams, the kingdom of absolute beauty, and then he is an artist.

There is one thing I must tell you because I just found it to be a truth . . . You must always be yourself no matter what the price. It is the highest form of morality.

The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute.

Turning one's back on stardom might be the highest form of common sense. One that I would aspire to be more complete with.

For the artist, the color, the bouquet, the tinkling of the spoon on the saucer, are things in the highest degree. He stops at the quality of the sound or the form. He returns to it constantly and is enchanted with it.

Nevada was hit hardest by the recession - highest unemployment, highest foreclosure rate, highest bankruptcy rate.

As the most participatory form of mass speech yet developed, the Internet deserves the highest protection from government intrusion.

I want my people to understand that because only man is capable to laugh, that means laughter is the highest point of consciousness, the highest point of understanding, the highest point of evolution. That's why I have started calling laughter "the prayer time."

Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts.

We choose the national park idea because it's really the highest form of protection for landscapes that exists under current law, especially in Chile and Argentina.

The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service.

Meditation is not a technique to master; it is the highest form of prayer, a naked act of love and effortless surrender into the silent abyss beyond all knowing

Friendship is the purest love. It is the highest form of Love where nothing is asked for, no condition, where one simply enjoys giving.

The plant never lapses into mere arid functionalism; it fashions and shapes according to logic and suitability, and with its primeval force compels everything to attain the highest artistic form.

The history in our country speaks to our highest values of people who did not accept things as they are and go along with them. They resisted, they refused to accept the world as it is, they demanded it to be a better reflection of their highest dreams and highest aspirations.

For the person and for the species love is the form of behavior having the highest survival value.

The greatest surprise of human evolution may be that the highest form of selfishness is selflessness.

A wise man once said that all human activity is a form of play. And the highest form of play is the search for Truth, Beauty and Love. What more is needed? Should there be a ‘meaning’ as well, that will be a bonus? If we waste time looking for life’s meaning, we may have no time to live — or to play.

When we think of God, we are apt to think of Him in human form. In the Epiphanies of the Old Testament God revealed Himself to Joshua and others in human form. He puts Himself within the compass of our highest conception, in order that He may make Himself real to us in His love and sympathy and power.

From a very early period of my life I have derived the highest enjoyment from listening to music, especially to melody, which is to me the most pleasing form of composition.

Pluralism lets things really exist in the each-form or distributively. Monism thinks that the all-form or collective-unit form is the only form that is rational.

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

The highest form of success comes to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship or from bitter toil, and who, out of these, wins the splendid ultimate triumph.

Trust is the highest form of human motivation. It brings out the very best in people. But it takes time and patience.

Every child should be taught that useful work is worship and that intelligent labor is the highest form of prayer.

No sense of the irony of human experience, that we are the highest form of life on earth, and yet ineffably sad because we know what no other animal knows, that we must die.

Through death you find yourself, because you no longer identify with form. You realize you are not the form with which you had identified ­ neither the physical nor the psychological form of "me". That form goes. It dissolves and who you are beyond form emerges through the opening where that form was. One could almost say that every form of life obscures God.

Imitate until you emulate; match and surpass those who launched you. It's the highest form of thankfulness.

[A] great embarrassing fact… haunts all attempts to represent the market as the highest form of human freedom: that historically, impersonal, commercial markets originate in theft.

So, to really execute design in its highest form and making people feel joy, that's a great reward.

I don't think imitation is the highest form of flattery, I think it's annoying.