Elevated Thinking Quotes

He who looks the higher is the more highly distinguished, and turning over the great book of nature (which is the proper object of philosophy) is the way to elevate one's gaze.

When my mood was high, I seemed normal, even buoyant. I felt smarter. I had secrets. I could see God in a light bulb.

To have greatly dreamed precludes low ends.

Religion is consciousness-raising. It raises you higher than the problem, it gives you a bird's-eye view.

Change your attitude and gain some altitude. Believe me, you'll love it up here.

Readers should aspire to what is excellent. They should refuse to read a substitute Bible. They should want a Bible that calls them to their higher selves - or to something higher than their current level of attainment.

Learn to see a problem from a higher level of understanding. Then, it dissolves before your eyes.

The ideas of people in general are not raised higher than the roofs of the houses. All their interests extend over the earth's surface in a layer of that thickness. The meeting-house steeple reaches out of their sphere.

If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.

It is fine to stand upon some lofty mountain thought, and feel the spirit stretch into a view.

The mind is lowered through association with inferiors. With equals it attains equality; and with superiors, superiority.

By cultivating an interest in a few good books which contain the result of the toil or the quintessence of the genius of some of the most gifted thinkers of the world, we need not live on the marsh and in the mists. The slopes and ridges invite us.

A lofty mind always thinks nobly, it easily creates vivid, agreeable, and natural fancies, places them in their best light, clothes them with all appropriate adornments, studies others' tastes, and clears away from its own thoughts all that is useless and disagreeable.