Higher Quotes

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. (Ludwig van Beethoven)
The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level. View quote
Norman Mailer
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius. View quote
Arthur Conan Doyle
Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher. View quote
Oprah Winfrey
All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason. View quote
Immanuel Kant
Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend. View quote
Ludwig van Beethoven
Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry. View quote
Havelock Ellis
Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently. View quote
Friedrich Nietzsche
There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts. (Mahatma Gandhi)
Strange as it seems, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and higher education positively fortifies it. View quote
Stephen Vizinczey
Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard. View quote
Robert Frost
The atoms become like a moth, seeking out the region of higher laser intensity. View quote
Steven Chu
I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels instead of the higher primates. View quote
Angela Carter
The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly. View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
A plowman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
I expected to die. At no time before the trial did I expect to escape with my life. Yet being executed in the gas chamber did not necessarily mean defeat. It could be one more step to bring the community to a higher level of consciousness. View quote
Huey P. Newton
To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive. View quote
Jane Austen
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. View quote
William Faulkner
The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One. (Michel de Montaigne)
Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice. View quote
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The possible ranks higher than the actual. View quote
Martin Heidegger
Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli