I used to think consciousness itself was a virtue, so I tried to keep it all in my head at the same… — Diane Arbus Copy Share Image
God did not send a concept, an idea, or a virtue. He sent his Son. Follow the God of love, not love… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
There is no virtue in curiosity. In fact, it might be the most immoral desire a man can possess. — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
To acquire and preserve the virtue of chastity, we have need of a good and experienced confessor. — Philip Neri Copy Share Image
Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
I conclude that it is a fundamental mistake to think that salvation, justice, or virtue come through merely human institutions. — Jeane Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime. — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Men cannot improve a society by setting fire to it: they must seek out its old virtues, and bring them back into… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
Cooking is an art and patience a virtue. Careful shopping, fresh ingredients and an unhurried approach are nearly all you need. There… — Keith Floyd Copy Share Image
The fierce and partial writers of the times, ascribing all virtue to themselves, and imputing all guilt to their adversaries, have painted… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Diversity is not a virtue. Diversity is a good only to the extent that it advances other virtues, justice or inclusiveness of… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
For a solitary animal egoism is a virtue that tends to preserve and improve the species: in any kind of community it… — Erwin Schrodinger Copy Share Image
“Love is my sin, and thy dear virtue hate, Hate of my sin, grounded on sinful loving: O, but with mine compare… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Virtue is not a solitary, uncomplicated thing.” Good necessitates evil and the two sides of that disk are not always clearly marked.… — Ann Leckie Copy Share Image
Sanity -- that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern,… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Love, friendship, respect, admiration are the emotional response of one man to the virtues of another, the spiritual payment given in exchange… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
How shall Integrity face Oppression? What shall Honesty do in the face of Deception, Decency in the face of Insult, Self-Defense before… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are many objects of desire, and therefore many desires. Some are born with us, hunger, yearning, and pride of place, and… — Guy Davenport Copy Share Image
“We are all each of us riddles, when unknown one to the other. The plain map of human powers and purposes, helps… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
Even Bertrand Russell, who fancied he saw flaws in Christ's character, confessed nonetheless that 'What the world needs is love, Christian love,… — Norman Geisler Copy Share Image
“when Dandamys the Wise heard accounts of the lives of Socrates, Pythagoras and Diogenes, he said that they were in every way… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
By the worldly standards of public life, all scholars in their work are of course oddly virtuous. They do not make wild… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
Machiavel, discoursing on these matters, finds virtue to be so essentially necessary to the establishment and preservation of liberty, that he thinks… — Algernon Sidney Copy Share Image
In the same manner, having been reduced by disorder, and sunk to their utmost state of depression, unable to descend lower, they,… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Love is the virtue of the Heart, Sincerity is the virtue of the Mind, Decision is the virtue of the Will, Courage… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
You may have noted the fact that it is a person's virtues as often as his vices that make him difficult to… — Kate Douglas Wiggin Copy Share Image
Humility is a priceless virtue; however, it takes a lot of self-emptying to cultivate it. — Michael Ugwu Eneja Copy Share Image
Virtue in its grandest aspect is neither more nor less than following reason. — Laozi Copy Share Image
Three key humanist virtues are courage, cognition, and caring - not dependence, ignorance, or insensitivity to the needs of others. — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
As Angelo discovered in Measure for Measure, nothing corrupts like virtue. — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
And it is you, spirit--with will and energy, and virtue and purity--that I want, not alone with your brittle frame. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
She who is more ashamed of dishonesty than of poverty will not be easily overcome. — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
Charity may cover a multitude of sins, but success transmutes them into virtues. — Hugh Kingsmill Copy Share Image
Liberty is the great parent of science and of virtue; and a nation will be great in both in proportion as it… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
You will find angling to be like the virtue of humanity, which has a calmness of spirit and a world of blessing… — Izaak Walton Copy Share Image
The focus of environmental ethics should indeed be on the virtues and how these inform our relationship to natural environments. — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world. — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it. — Confucius Copy Share Image
It takes a vice to check a vice, and virtue is the by-product of a stalemate between opposite vices. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Courage is the human virtue that counts most-courage to act on limited knowledge and insufficient evidence. That's all any of us have. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
