No man is nobler born than another, unless he is born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition. They who make… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Many people fear nothing more terribly than to take a position which stands out sharply and clearly from the prevailing opinion. The… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
To be an object of hatred and aversion to their contemporaries has been the usual fate of all those whose merit has… — Thucydides 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
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
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
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
There was about all the Romans a heroic tone peculiar to ancient life. Their virtues were great and noble, and these virtues… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
In the first seat, in robe of various dyes, A noble wildness flashing from his eyes, Sat Shakespeare: in one hand a… — Charles Churchill Copy Share Image
Your soul is that part of you that existed before you were born and will continue to exist after you die. So… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
Being a writer is part of a noble tradition, as is being a musician – the last egalitarian and open associations. No… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
The Hindu religion appears ... as a cathedral temple, half in ruins, noble in the mass, often fantastic in detail but always… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
“I used to read in books how our fathers persecuted mankind. But I never appreciated it. I did not really appreciate the… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The course of a great statesman resembles that of navigable rivers, avoiding immovable obstacles with noble bends of concession, seeking the broad… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
The ordinary politician has a very low estimate of human nature. In his daily life he comes into contact chiefly with persons… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
If only we could love ourselves enough to dare to approach God, what constructive dreams he would give us! What noble possibilities… — Robert H. Schuller Copy Share Image
A typical National World Weekly would tell the world how Jesus' face was seen on a Big Mac bun bought by someone… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The first step to get this noble and manly steadiness, is... carefully keep children from frights of all kinds, when they are… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Right now people are interested in genetic engineering to help the human race. That's a noble cause, and that's where we should… — Jack Horner Copy Share Image
Since I started as a comic person then became a musician to me it was interesting because I have this really great,… — Gerard Way Copy Share Image
It's easy to run to others. It's so hard to stand on one's own record. You can fake virtue for an audience.… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Most of these people will never make the headlines and their names will not appear in Who's Who. Yet when years have… — Martin Luther King, Jr 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
Sometimes the enormity of war overwhelms the truth that all great struggles are just the sum of individual stories. Each is more… — James Carafano Copy Share Image
The gods we make in our own image are tribal gods. They tell you how very, very little you should tolerate outsiders,… — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image
It is not the eye that sees the beauty of the heaven, nor the ear that hears the sweetness of music or… — Jeremy Taylor 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
Jokes can be noble. Laughs are exactly as honorable as tears. Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion, to… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Let us fill a cup and drink to that most noble, ridiculous, laughable, sublime figure in our lives... The Young Man Who… — Herman Wouk Copy Share Image
There is something very wonderful about music. Words are wonderful enough; but music is even more wonderful. It speaks not to our… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
Religious faith is the only area of discourse where immunity through conversation is considered noble . It's the only area of our… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
And a noble life is one ordered by, and oriented to, a transcendent moral code, not just one's own concept of existence… — Rick Santorum Copy Share Image
I think it is time for a new pride in the intellectual life, and a new impatience with people who take pride… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
In the alchemy of man's soul almost all noble attributes- courage, honor, love, hope, faith, duty, loyalty, and so on - can… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
She pictured herself running from a hoard of ravenous zombies on a hot day eventually collapsing from heatstroke and getting devoured. Then… — Brandon Mull Copy Share Image
The woman who makes a sweet, beautiful home, filling it with love and prayer and purity, is doing something better than anything… — J.R. Miller Copy Share Image
To love is to be selfless. To be selfless is to be fearless. To be fearless is to strip your enemies of… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
When we go to the movies, we identify with the characters we see. That's why we go to the movies; we have… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
