Wisdom is knowing. Skill is know how to do it. Virtue is doing it. — David Starr Jordan Copy Share Image
Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy. — Theodore White Copy Share Image
Some, by admiring other men's virtues, become enemies to their own vices. — Bias of Priene Copy Share Image
The more virtuous any man is, the less easily does he suspect others to be vicious. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Bravery is a virtue people revere in dead soldiers and then turn to disparage in someone extending her hand to a weirdo. — Cord Jefferson Copy Share Image
Where envy reigns virtue can't exist, and generosity doesn't go with meanness. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Leave your theories. All theories, you see, even those of virtue, are bad, foolish, mischievous. — Romain Rolland Copy Share Image
True humility does not know that it is humble. If it did, it would be proud from the contemplation of so fine… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“People hate to see their vices depicted, but vice is terrible and it should be depicted.” — Aubrey Beardsley Copy Share Image
It is the part of cowardliness, and not of virtue, to seek to squat itself in some hollow lurking hole, or to… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
A dull speaker, like a plain woman, is credited with all the virtues, for we charitably suppose that a surface so unattractive… — A. P. Herbert Copy Share Image
“We sainted St. Tammany (King Tamanend III) because he embodied moral perfection and every divine qualification that a deity could possess. I… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Happiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect practice of virtue, which some can attain, while others have little or… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Good taste" is a virtue of the keepers of museums. If you scorn bad taste, you will have neither painting nor dancing,… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
Suspicion is a virtue as long as its object is the public good, and as long as it stays within proper bounds.… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
If fortune makes a wicked man prosperous and a good man poor, there is no need to wonder. For the wicked regard… — Sallust Copy Share Image
The word "independence" is united to the accessory ideas of dignity and virtue. The word "dependence" is united to the ideas of… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
You may dazzle the mind with a thousand brilliant discoveries of natural science; you may open new worlds of knowledge which were… — Rose Philippine Duchesne Copy Share Image
For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocence, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent:… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present. The acknowledgment of those virtues on which conscience congratulates us is… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
A prince must be prudent enough to know how to escape the bad reputation of those vices that would lose the state… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
It is certainly true that reason is the most important and the highest rank among all things and, in comparison with other… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The bullshitter is neither on the side of the true or the side of the false. His eye is not on the… — Harry Frankfurt Copy Share Image
People need a moral code, to help them make decisions. All this bio-yogurt virtue and financial self-righteousness are just filling the gap… — Tana French Copy Share Image
“I swear that while I live I will do what little I can to preserve and to augment the liberties of man,… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
