Highest

Famous quotes containing the word highest:

“To the degree that respect for professors ... has risen in our society, respect for writers has fallen. Today the professorial intellect has achieved its highest public standing since the world began, while writers have come to be called “men of letters,” by which is meant people who are prevented by some obscure infirmity from becoming competent journalists.”
—Robert Musil (1880–1942)

“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 reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.”
—Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915)