Faith means making a virtue out of not thinking. It's nothing to brag about. — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
We are rational creatures: Our virtue and perfection is to love reason, or rather to love order. — Nicolas Malebranche Copy Share Image
Consistency is a virtue for trains: what we want from a philosopher is insights, whether he comes by them consistently or not. — Stephen Vizinczey Copy Share Image
If it were given to a man to see virtue's reward in the next world, he would occupy his intellect, memory and… — John of the Cross Copy Share Image
When everything that matters can be bought and sold, when commitments can be broken because they are no longer to our advantage,… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
Glory fills the world with virtue, and, like a beneficent sun, covers the whole earth with flowers and with fruits. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
We imperatively require a perception of and a homage to beauty in our companions. Other virtues are in request in the field… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If there is a form of government, then, whose principle and foundation is virtue, will not every sober man acknowledge it better… — John Adams Copy Share Image
For there is no virtue, the honour and credit for which procures a man more odium from the elite than that of… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
I believe that communal admiration of individuals is healthy for society. It facilitates, in one way, the base of our universal standard,… — Jack Gleeson Copy Share Image
I would be virtuous for my own sake, though nobody were to know it; as I would be clean for my own… — Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury Copy Share Image
Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault — Henry Anatole Grunwald Copy Share Image
The world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness. — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
Every day, people say crappy things about my band or whatever, but I live a positive existence. I got through everything by… — Andy Biersack Copy Share Image
Whether the law of marriage be instituted or not, the dictate of nature and virtue seems to be an early attachment to… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
Without virtue it is difficult to bear gracefully the honors of fortune. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Every fanatic or enemy of virtue is not at liberty to misrepresent the greatest geniuses and most heroic defenders of all that… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Finding your own voice is hard. It has taken me years to find my own voice. Speaking up for yourself is a… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
I hate when vice can bolt her arguments, And virtue has no tongue to check her pride. — John Milton Copy Share Image
Where envy reigns virtue can't exist, and generosity doesn't go with meanness. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And this homage to women's attractions has distorted their understanding tosuch an extent that almost all the civilized women of the present… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold. — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
When like the patriarchs we learn to dig wells of virtue and spiritual knowledge within ourselves by means of ascetic practice and… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
Patience and understanding are two rarest virtue humans could have today. — Wazim Shaw Copy Share Image
“On Virtue – When people want to describe the hideousness of a person or object, they may use the phrase ‘ugly as… — Marsha Hinds Copy Share Image
Leave those vain moralists, my friend, and return to the depth of your soul: that is where you will always rediscover the… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Virtue alone is not sufficient for the exercise of government; laws alone cannot carry themselves into practice. — Mencius Copy Share Image
True virtue never appears so lovely as when it is most oppressed; and the divine excellency of real Christianity is never exhibited… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
Kant's description of most ethical duties reads more like a description of moral virtues and vices. Once we see this, we see… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
