Above Quotes - page 5

This above all; to thine own self be true. (William Shakespeare)
Knowing I loved my books, he furnished me, From mine own library with volumes that; I prize above my dukedom. View quote
William Shakespeare
It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills. View quote
Simone de Beauvoir
To know is not too demanding: it merely requires memory and time. But to understand is quite a different matter: it requires intellectual ability and training, a self conscious awareness of what one is doing, experience in techniques of analysis and synthesis, and above all, perspective. View quote
Carroll Quigley
I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State; and as for the man who sets private friendship above the public welfare - I have no use for him, either. View quote
Sophocles
But I'm glad you'll see me as I am. Above all, I wouldn't want people to think that I want to prove anything. I don't want to prove anything, I just want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself. I have that right, haven't I? View quote
Leo Tolstoy
When red-haired people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn. View quote
Mark Twain
Christ is not valued at all unless He be valued above all. View quote
Augustine of Hippo
The optimum population is modeled on the iceberg- eight-ninths below the water line, one-ninth above. View quote
Aldous Huxley
Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness. (Chanakya)
Religion, which should most distinguish us from beasts, and ought most peculiarly to elevate us, as rational creatures, above brutes, is that wherein men often appear most irrational, and more senseless than beasts themselves. View quote
John Locke
A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions - as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all. View quote
Friedrich Nietzsche
One reason why mathematics enjoys special esteem, above all other sciences, is that its laws are absolutely certain and indisputable, while those of other sciences are to some extent debatable and in constant danger of being overthrown by newly disco. View quote
Albert Einstein
It is not just power, but impotence, that corrupts people. It gives them the mind and soul of slaves. It makes them indifferent, lazy, cynical, irresponsible, and, above all, stupid. View quote
John Holt
Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have. View quote
Ronald Reagan
For Christians above all men are forbidden to correct the stumblings of sinners by force...it is necessary to make a man better not by force but by persuasion. We neither have authority granted us by law to restrain sinners, nor, if it were, should we know how to use it, since God gives the crown to those who are kept from evil, not by force, but by choice. View quote
John Chrysostom
Above all, the translation of books into digital formats means the destruction of boundaries. Bound, printed texts are discrete objects: immutable, individual, lendable, cut off from the world. View quote
Tom Chatfield
A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius. View quote
Charles Cooley
Practice sharing the fullness of your being, your best self, your enthusiasm, your vitality, your spirit, your trust, your openness, above all, your presence. Share it with yourself, with your family, with the world. View quote
Jon Kabat-Zinn
Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles. (George Jean Nathan)
Books everywhere. On the shelves and on the small space above the rows of books and all along the floor and under chairs, books that I have read, books that I have not read. View quote
Edna O'Brien
Wars, however frequent and destructive they may be, have never been able to kill entirely the intellectual and moral sense which raises man above the beast. View quote
Elie Ducommun
I have always hated crowds. I like deserts, prisons, and monasteries. I have discovered, too, that there are fewer idiots at 3000 meters above sea level than down below. View quote
Jean Giono
Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed - Let it be that great strong land of love Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme That any man be crushed by one above. View quote
Langston Hughes