Highest

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    Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise ... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.
    Allan Bloom (1930–1992)

    No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man. In the highest confidence there is always a flavor of doubt—a feeling, half instinctive and half logical, that, after all, the scoundrel may have something up his sleeve.
    —H.L. (Henry Lewis)

    The highest that we can attain to is not Knowledge, but Sympathy with Intelligence.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)