There is One great society alone on earth: The noble living and the noble dead. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
It is not rebellion itself which is noble but the demands it makes upon us. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes... — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities. — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
Friendship, peculiar boon of Heaven, The noble mind's delight and pride, To men and angels only given, To all the lower world… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The great thing about being always among people of noble manners was the inevitable elevation of one's own.” — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
All that is noble is in itself of a quiet nature, and appears to sleep until it is aroused and summoned forth… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
One is not called noble who harms living beings. By not harming living beings one is called noble. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Let nothing dupe you! Such is the horrible maxim that acts as a solvent upon every noble feeling man experiences. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
He was as noble and fair in face as an elf-lord, as strong as a warrior, as wise as a wizard, as… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
You have to be doing things that matter - responsibility, but also responsibility with epic and beautiful and noble tasks. — Michelle Bachelet Copy Share Image
There are noble tones, ordinary ones, tranquil harmonies, consoling ones, others which excite by their vigour. — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
All you decent, well-meaning gentlemen, let me ask you, have you any idea what sort of place the world is becoming all… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future. Give everyone a smile. Spend so… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
Awards movies are normally sort of... life-affirming and noble. It's probably too much of an intellectual conceit and, you know, people don't… — David Fincher Copy Share Image
At least in popular parlance, what makes religious folks religious today is not so much that they believe in Jesus' divinity or… — Stephen Prothero Copy Share Image
The form of government is a democracy when the free, who are also poor and the majority, govern, and an oligarchy when… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Men sometimes speak as if humility and meekness would rob us of what is noble and bold and manlike. O that all… — Andrew Murray Copy Share Image
If a man is endowed with a noble and courageous soul, if he is painstaking, proud, ambitious, without meanness, of a profound… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
“Beggars, especially noble beggars, should never show themselves in the street; they should ask for alms through the newspapers. It's still possible… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If we state the function of man to be a certain kind of life, and this to be an activity or actions… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Make yourselves nests of pleasant thoughts. None of us knows what fairy palaces we may build of beautiful thought-proof against all adversity.… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I often think . . . that the bookstores that will save civilization are not online, nor on campuses, nor named Borders,… — James V. Schall Copy Share Image
I could never figure out or probably did not take the trouble to figure out what the great philosophical problems are about.… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
You will say good-bye for all the right reasons. You're tired of living in wait for his apocalypse. You have your own… — Melissa Bank Copy Share Image
Each religion has helped mankind. Paganism increased in man the light of beauty, the largeness and height of his life, his aim… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
While believing strongly, without evidence, is considered a mark of madness or stupidity in any other area of our lives, faith in… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Every woman whether rich or poor, married or single, has a circle of influence within which, according to her character, she is… — John Angell James Copy Share Image
