Wisdom is knowing. Skill is know how to do it. Virtue is doing it. — David Starr Jordan Copy Share Image
Riches, though they may reward virtues, yet they cannot cause them; he is much more noble who deserves a benefit than he… — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
Pleasure blinds (so to speak) the eyes of the mind, and has no fellowship with virtue. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Were we a rational society, a virtue of which we have rarely been accused, we would husband our oil and gas resources. — M. King Hubbert Copy Share Image
A wise man watches his faults more closely than his virtues; fools reverse the order. — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The agonizing flames of misery can turn the human heart inside your skull into a breeding ground for virtues.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Good is good in the final hour, in the deepest pit – without hope, without witness, without reward. Virtue is only virtue… — Steven Moffat Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most eloquent of the hard virtues is courage, the disposition to encounter adversity head-on and strive to overcome it. — Ted Malloch Copy Share Image
An honest man here lies at rest, the friend of man the friend of truth the friend of age and guide of… — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
Our reasonings are grounded upon two great principles, that of contradiction, in virtue of which we judge false that which involves a… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
Rich apparel has strange virtues; it makes him that hath it without means esteemed for an excellent wit; he that enjoys it… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
There may be difficulty at the moment, but I will not lose the Virtue that I possess. It is when the ice… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
“Virtue is a subordination of the passions to the intellect. It is to act in accordance with your highest convictions. It does… — Robert Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Jesus and Shakespeare are fragments of the soul, and by love I conquer and incorporate them in my own conscious domain. His… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The good man shuns evil and follows good; he keeps secret that which ought to be hidden; he makes his virtues manifest… — Bhartrhari Copy Share Image
The amount of electricity that has been saved in spite of Vice President Cheney saying that efficiency is only a moral virtue… — Stephen Schneider Copy Share Image
For the Christian there can be no social or political panaceas, no easy escapes from personal responsibility achieved by collectivising guilt or… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
It is in virtue of his own desires and curiosities that any man continues to exist with even patience, that he is… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
If you did wed my sister for her wealth, Then for her wealth's sake use her with more kindness; Or, if you… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
O Jesus, if I but considered attentively your immense solicitude for me, how greatly should I not excel in every virtue? Pardon… — Gemma Galgani Copy Share Image
It does seem to me, that herein we see the rare virtue of a strong individual vitality, and the rare virtue of… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Science and mathematics [are] much more compelling and exciting than the doctrines of pseudoscience, whose practitioners were condemned as early as the… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
It is a nostalgic time right now, and photographs actively promote nostalgia. Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
FAITH. No one word personifies the absolute worst and most wicked properties of religion better than that. Faith is mind-rot. It’s the… — PZ Myers Copy Share Image
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