Ultimate Quotes

Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements. (Napoleon Hill)
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. View quote
Leonardo da Vinci
Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country. View quote
Franklin D. Roosevelt
That's the ultimate pornography... There's nothing more pornographic than glorifying war. View quote
Tom Clancy
The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools. View quote
Herbert Spencer
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction. View quote
Pablo Picasso
And this we should believe: that hope and volition can bring us closer to our ultimate goal: justice for all, injustice for no-one. View quote
Eyvind Johnson
The ultimate tendency of liberalism is vegetarianism. View quote
Norman Mailer
To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution. View quote
Samuel Johnson
All forms of tampering with human beings, getting at them, shaping them against their will to your own pattern, all thought control and conditioning is, therefore, a denial of that in men which makes them men and their values ultimate. View quote
Isaiah Berlin
A severed foot is the ultimate stocking stuffer. (Mitch Hedberg)
The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
George Dillon: [I]t's easy to answer the ultimate questions – it saves you bothering with the immediate ones. View quote
John Osborne
The great gift of Easter is hope - Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God, in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love, which nothing can shake. View quote
Basil Hume
For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. View quote
Rainer Maria Rilke
The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are part of nature and therefore part of the mystery that we are trying to solve. View quote
Max Planck
Enlightenment is ego's ultimate disappointment. View quote
Chogyam Trungpa
If the attainment of peace is the ultimate objective of all statesmen, it is, at the same time, something very ordinary, closely tied to the daily life of each individual. View quote
Eisaku Sato
Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness. (Eric Temple Bell)
The ultimate aim of the modern movement in biology is in fact to explain all biology in terms of physics and chemistry. View quote
Francis Crick
In the deepest heart of all of us there is a corner in which the ultimate mystery of things works sadly. View quote
William James
Nothing is so fatal to the progress of the human mind as to suppose that our views of science are ultimate; that there are no mysteries in nature; that our triumphs are complete, and that there are no new worlds to conquer. View quote
Humphry Davy
The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said about it. View quote
Felix Frankfurter