Definition of Upwards

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Upwards

In a direction from lower to higher; toward a higher place; in a course toward the source or origin; -- opposed to downward; as, to tend or roll upward.

In the upper parts; above.

Yet more; indefinitely more; above; over.

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Upwards Quotations

Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.
Plato

It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other.
Plato

Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.
George Orwell

An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards.
John Locke

In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
H. G. Wells

In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards.
Bertrand Russell

PLease, do not visualize that we exist above you such as in heaven. The concepts above and below are products of your mind. The soul does not swing upwards. It exists in the center and orients itself in every direction.
Hans Bender

But even now, when people see me in the street, they point upwards to the sky.
Barry Gibb

Then we did what we called basically I suppose a club tour in England, which was the time I think that our second album came out, we club toured around the whole country where the venues were hold to five hundreds upwards to that sort of thing you know.
John Deacon

The natural movement of one's soul is upwards. But just as any object is dragged down when a heavy weight is tied to it, the burden of the body drags down the soul.
Vinoba Bhave

Upwards Translations

upwards in Danish is opad
upwards in Dutch is op, omhoog, naar boven, opwaarts
upwards in Latin is sursum
upwards in Norwegian is hit
upwards in Portuguese is para cima

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