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Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the absolute power of logic.

— Alexis Carrel

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✓Similar Perspectives

There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.

— Henry Van Dyke

The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.

— Sallust

Your Highest Self is not just an idea that sounds lofty and spiritual. It is a way of being. It is the very first principle that you must come to understand and embrace as you move toward attracting to you that which you want and need for this parenthesis in eternity that you know as your life.

— Wayne Dyer

Just as Divinity descends in a certain manner, to the extent that one communicates with Nature, so one ascends to Divinity through Nature, just as by means of a life resplendent in natural things one rises to the life that presides over them.

— Giordano Bruno

Each time we enter imaginatively into the life of another, it's a small step upwards in the elevation of the human race.

— Susan Vreeland

The higher one climbs on the spiritual ladder, the more they will grant others their own freedom, and give less interference to another's state of consciousness.

— Paul Twitchell

✗Opposing Perspectives

Every person is endowed with God-given abilities, and we must cultivate every ounce of talent we have in order to maintain our pinnacle position in the world.

— Ben Carson

It is proper that noble spirits, equipped with truth and enlightened with the Divine intelligence, should arm themselves against dense ignorance by climbing up to the high rock and tower of contemplation.

— Giordano Bruno

Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.

— Sophocles

It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so.

— Georges Bernanos