The wisest and noblest teacher is nature itself.

My main language was music, and my teacher was nature.

— Vangelis

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Instrumental or mechanical science is the noblest and above all others, the most useful.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Forgiveness is the noblest vengeance.

— Henry George Bohn

“At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law & justice he is the worst.”

— Aristotle

In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honor, command, power, and glory.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Labor with the heart, when the heart is pure and true, is the noblest labor.

— Karl G. Maeser

Growing up, my dad used to say that politics was the noblest profession. Most would scoff at that, today. Most probably would have when…

— Jake Auchincloss

This sight... is by far the noblest astronomy affords.

— Edmond Halley

The call of the spinning wheel is the noblest of all. Because it is the call of love. And love is Swaraj.

— Mahatma Gandhi

To yield reverence to another, to hold ourselves and our lives at his disposal, is not slavery; often, it is the noblest state in…

— John Ruskin

Through this same man and me hath all this war been wrought, and the death of the most noblest knights of the world; for…

— Thomas Malory

It is at our mother's knee that we acquire our noblest and truest and highest ideals.

— Mark Twain

Surely the apple is the noblest of fruits.

— Henry David Thoreau

You have so much inside you, and the noblest happiness of all. Don’t just wait for a man to come along. That’s the mistake…

— Albert Camus