We are called the nation of inventors. And we are. We could still claim that title and wear its loftiest honors if we had stopped with the first thing we had ever invented human liberty.
Quotes about loftiest (16 Quotes)
Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.
Perhaps in our presence, the most heroic deed on earth is done in some silent spirit, the loftiest purpose cherished, the most generous sacrifice made, and we do not suspect it. I believe this greatness to be most common among the multitude, whose names are never heard.
Associate reverently, and as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts.
For those who do not believe in the hereafter is an evil attribute, and Allah's is the loftiest attribute and He is the Mighty, the Wise.
What is my loftiest ambition? I've always wanted to throw an egg at an electric fan.
No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.
The loftiest edifices need the deepest foundations.
Fanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave, A paradise for a sect the savage too From forth the loftiest fashion of his sleep Guesses at Heaven.
Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.
Out of the lowest depths there is a path to the loftiest heights.
Poetry, even that of the loftiest, and seemingly, that of the wildest odes, has a logic of its own as severe as that of science and more difficult, because more subtle, more complex, and dependent on more and more fugitive causes. In the truly great poets... there is a reason assignable, not only for every word, but for the position of every word.
Pythagoras, Locke, Socrates -- but pages might be filled up, as vainly as before, with the sad usage of all sorts of sages, who in his life-time, each was deemed a bore The loftiest minds outrun their tardy ages.
Tempted fate will leave the loftiest star.
At the moment of the contemporary metaphysician's loftiest flight, when he is most gratefully warmed by the feeling that he is far above all the ordinary airlanes and has an absolutely novel concept by the tail, he is suddenly pulled up by the discov
Time advances facts accumulate doubts arise. Faint glimpses of truth begin to appear, and shine more and more unto the perfect day. The highest intellects, like the tops of mountains, are the first to catch and to reflect the dawn. They are bright, while the level below is still in darkness. But soon the light, which at first illuminated only the loftiest eminences, descends on the plain, and penetrates to the deepest valley. First come hints, then fragments of systems, then defective systems, then complete and harmonious systems. The sound opinion, held for a time by one bold speculator, becomes the opinion of a small minority, of a strong minority, of a majority of mankind. Thus, the great progress goes on.