Men have been taught that it is a virtue to agree with others. But the creator is the man who disagrees. Men… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Recommend to your children to be virtuous, only the virtue can bring us happiness, not the money. — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
Someone who lies and someone who tells the truth are playing on opposite sides, so to speak, in the same game. Each… — Harry Frankfurt Copy Share Image
An interesting piece of work, freely chosen, which has the virtue of inducing concentration rather than fatigue, adds to the child's energies… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
There are those who would misteach us that to stick in a rut is consistency - and a virtue, and that to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The most pernicious of absurdities is that weak, blind, stupid faith is better than the constant practice of every human virtue. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
The characteristic virtue of Englishmen is power of sustained practical activity and their characteristic vice a reluctance to test the quality of… — R. H. Tawney Copy Share Image
The extinction of race consciousness as between Muslims is one of the outstanding achievements of Islam, and in the contemporary world there… — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
The supernatural virtue of justice consists of behaving exactly as though there were equality when one is the stronger in an unequal… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Many people think that Puerto Rico would be a Democratic state just by virtue of the inclination of the Latino population in… — Ricardo Rossello Copy Share Image
It is impossible to think of Howard Hughes without seeing the apparently bottomless gulf between what we say we want and what… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
The unique impression of Jesus upon mankind - whose name is not so much written as ploughed into the history of the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We may look up to Armies for Defence, but Virtue is our best Security. It is not possible that any state should… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
I think that I've been pigeon-holed by virtue of the fact that I've spent so much time in front of a green… — Jonathan Frakes Copy Share Image
RIGHTEOUSNESS, n. A sturdy virtue that was once found among the Pantidoodles inhabiting the lower part of the peninsula of Oque. Some… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Vanity is so closely allied to virtue, and to love the fame of laudable actions approaches so near the love of laudable… — David Hume Copy Share Image
So great is the effect of cleanliness upon man, that it extends even to his moral character. Virtue never dwelt long with… — Benjamin Thompson Copy Share Image
I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers. — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
I can see in the acorn the oak tree. I see the growth, the rebuilding, the restoring. I see that is the… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Let them (the wicked) see the beauty of virtue, and pine at having forsaken her. [Lat., Virtutem videant, intabescantque relicta.] — Aulus Persius Flaccus Copy Share Image
Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice. — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
