No man, however enslaved to his appetites, or hurried by his passions, can, while he preserves his intellects unimpaired, please himself with… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I am a sacrifice to the Guru, who has totally cured me of the fatal disease of egotism. Glorious and great are… — Guru Gobind Singh Copy Share Image
To practice virtue is to selflessly offer assistance to others, giving without limitation one's time, abilities, and possessions in service, whenever and… — Laozi Copy Share Image
We have been fortunate enough to live at a time when virtue, though it does not triumph, is nonetheless not always tormented… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Virtue will catch as well as vice by contact; and the public stock of honest manly principle will daily accumulate. We are… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
My whole mood or sense can change by virtue of the music that I'm listening to. It really does affect me on… — Kiefer Sutherland Copy Share Image
Internalist approaches to epistemology, I believe, have a great deal of intuitive appeal. Internalists believe that the features in virtue of which… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
No virtue is more universally accepted as a test of good character than trustworthiness . — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
When I was a child . . . Only virtue was prized, virtue at the expense of intellect, health, happiness, and every mundane good. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“To exist is to be betrayed, since we exist for others only by virtue of what we betray of ourselves to them.” — Charles Palliser Copy Share Image
An Ambassadore is a man of virtue sent to lie abroad for his country, a news writer is a man of no… — Henry Wotton Copy Share Image
Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
Only by perfect virtue can the perfect path, in all its courses, be made a fact. — Confucius Copy Share Image
[Regarding] the convention that clergymen are more virtuous than other men. Any average selection of mankind, set apart and told that it… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Virtue lies in being absorbed in one's prayers in the presence of din and noise. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Believe it, my good friend, to love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in the world, and… — Anthony Collins Copy Share Image
If you are proud of your descent from virtuous ancestors, how empty their virtue will leave your hands if you yourself are… — Ibn Hazm Copy Share Image
It makes that a virtue which is not a virtue, and that a crime which is not a crime. Religion consists in… — Henry M. Field Copy Share Image
We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone. Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice… — William James Copy Share Image
If you combine all the spectral rays into a single beam, you get white light; and, if you combine all the virtues… — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image