Charlotte Perkins Gilman
(1860–1935) American feminist, writer, commercial artist, lecturer and social reformer
“The lowest steps of the ladder are as useful as the highest.”
Source: On the Study and Difficulties of Mathematics (1831), Ch. I.
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“The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought.”
H. Havelock Ellis
(1859–1939) British physician, writer, and social reformer
Source: The Dance of Life http://www.gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0300671.txt (1923), Ch. 3
Julian of Norwich
(1342–1416) English theologian and anchoress
The Sixteenth Revelation, Chapter 80
Context: I believe and understand the ministration of angels, as clerks tell us: but it was not shewed me. For Himself is nearest and meekest, highest and lowest, and doeth all. And not only all that we need, but also He doeth all that is worshipful, to our joy in heaven.
“Talk to him of Jacob's ladder, and he would ask the number of the steps.”
Douglas William Jerrold
(1803–1857) English dramatist and writer
A matter-of-fact Man, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Henry Giles
(1809–1882) Irish minister
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 41.
Thomas Guthrie
(1803–1873) British divine
Source: The Way to Life: Sermons (1862), P. 192 (The Example of Christ).