Elevation Quotes

• By the study of their biographies, we receive each man as a guest into our minds, and we seem to understand their character as the result of a personal acquaintance, because we have obtained from their acts the best and most important means of forming an opinion about them. "What greater pleasure could'st thou gain than this?" What more valuable for the elevation of our own character?

  

  Plutarch
  • Character
  • Opinion
  • Biographies

• For such a small man Maradona gets great elevation on his balls

  

  David Pleat
  • Great
  • Men
  • Small

• All moral elevation consists first and foremost of being weaned from the momentary.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Elevation
  • Momentary
  • Weaned

• When, indeed, men speak of Beauty, they mean, precisely, not a quality, as is supposed, but an effect - they refer, in short, just to that intense and pure elevation of soul - not of intellect, or of heart.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Soul
  • Intense
  • Elevation

• All doctrine is ultimately the death of joy - even when the doctrine is the elevation of the light above the serious, because joy is too varied and elusive ever to confine itself to one or the other.

  

  David Bennun
  • Joy
  • Serious
  • Doctrine

• I think that if you have a sense of the sacredness of nature and of human relations, I think you will be uplifted in some sort of spiritual elevation.

  

  Eugene Green
  • Spiritual
  • Humans
  • Relation

• All that I can tell you is, that I used my humble powers to the uttermost, and raised my voice in behalf of Human Rights in general, and the elevation and Rights of Woman in particular, nearly all my life.

  

  Ernestine Rose
  • Voice
  • Human Rights
  • Women's Rights

• What is a staircase, but a corridor improved by elevation?

  

  Catherine Gilbert Murdock
  • Elevation
  • Corridors
  • Staircases

• There is no reason against woman's elevation, but prejudices.

  

  Ernestine Rose
  • Reason
  • Prejudices
  • Elevation