Quotes on Higher

Doubt in my tradition is something that is very helpful. Because of doubt, you can thirst more and you will get a higher kind of proof.

Here, then, is the point at which I see the new mission of the librarian rise up incomparably higher than all those preceding. Up until the present, the librarian has been principally occupied with the book as a thing, as a material object. From now on he must give his attention to the book as a living function. He must become a policeman, master of the raging book.

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.

If you find what you do each day seems to have no link to any higher purpose, you probably want to rethink what you're doing.

A nation will rise no higher than the strength of its homes. If you want to reform a nation you begin with families.

I fall, I stand still... I trudge on. I gain a little... I get more eager and climb higher and begin to see the widening horizon. Every struggle is a victory.

Bring anger and pride under your feet, _x000D_ turn them into a ladder and climb higher.

Every man who would do anything well, must come to it from a higher ground.

Fantasy (in this sense) is, I think, not a lower but a higher form of Art, indeed the most nearly pure form, and so (when achieved) the most potent.

The man who perceives life only with his eye, his ear, his hand, and his tongue, is but little higher than the ox or an intelligent dog; but he who has imagination sees things around and above him, as the angels see them.

For what higher, more exalted, and more compelling goal can there be than to know God?

Surround yourself only with those who lift you higher.

Beauty is a form of genius -- is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation.

Music is on a higher plane than everything else in this world.

I pray to be used in service to a greater purpose higher than my own

Look for the enemies of Medicare, of higher minimum wages, of Social Security, of federal aid to education and there you will find the enemy of the Negro, the coalition of Dixiecrats and reactionary Republicans that seek to dominate the Congress.

No stream rises higher than its source

Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.

Art is not an end in itself. It introduces the soul into a higher spiritual order, which it expresses and in some sense explains.

There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.

A lottery is a salutary instrument and a tax... laid on the willing only, that is to say, on those who can risk the price of a ticket without sensible injury, for the possibility of a higher prize.