Famous quotes containing the words higher and/or yield:
“The higher we rise up, the smaller we appear to those who are unable to fly.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“Like most vigorous-minded men, seeing that there was no stopping-place between dogma and negation, he preferred to accept dogma. Of all weaknesses he most disliked timed and half-hearted faith. He would rather have jumped at once to Strong’s pure denial, than yield an inch to the argument that a mystery was to be paltered with because it could not be explained.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)