Famous quotes containing the word highest:
“The ability to secure an independent livelihood and honorable employ suited to her education and capacities is the only true foundation of the social elevation of woman, even in the very highest classes of society. While she continues to be educated only to be somebody’s wife, and is left without any aim in life till that somebody either in love, or in pity, or in selfish regard at last grants her the opportunity, she can never be truly independent.”
—Catherine E. Beecher (1800–1878)
“It is the last lesson of modern science, that the highest simplicity of structure is produced, not by few elements, but by the highest complexity.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“The highest that we can attain to is not Knowledge, but Sympathy with Intelligence.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)