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
Our dangers, as it seems to me, are not from the outrageous but from the conforming; not from those who rarely and… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
Democracy's worst fault is that its leaders are likely to reflect the faults and virtues of their constituents. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
No virtue ever was founded on a lie. The truth, then, at all risks and costs - the truth from the beginning.… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
Every generous action loves the public view; yet no theatre for virtue is equal to a consciousness of it. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Tolerance, a term which we sometimes use in place of the words respect, mercy, generosity, or forbearance, is the most essential element… — Fethullah Gulen Copy Share Image
Seek goodness everywhere, and when it is found, bring it out of its hiding-place and let it be free and unashamed. Place… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
What is the virtue and service of a book? Only to help me live less gingerly and shabbily. — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
The civilization of the West, which was brilliant by virtue of its scientific perfection for a long time, and which subjugated the… — Hassan al-Banna Copy Share Image
I am patriot enough to take pains to bring this usefull invention into fashion in England, and I should not fail to… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy. If parsimony were to be considered as one of the… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Free inquiry entails recognition of civil liberties as integral to its pursuit, that is, a free press, freedom of communication, the right… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
Here then is the origin and rise of government; namely, a mode rendered necessary by the inability of moral virtue to govern… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Painting, like poetry, selects in the universe whatever she deems most appropriate to her ends. She assembles in a single fantastic personage,… — Francisco Goya Copy Share Image
We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than… — William Penn Copy Share Image
Indeed, in foreign policymaking, inconsistency is often a virtue. I speak not of principles but of policy. — Richard N. Haass Copy Share Image
There can be no beauty if it is paid for by human injustice, nor truth that passes over injustice in silence, nor… — Tadeusz Borowski Copy Share Image
I am a citizen of the world, and I have met, in my time, with so many different sorts of virtue, that… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
“[On the virtuous man] "He combines the highest, lowest and middle chords in complete harmony within himself.” — Plato Copy Share Image
Never lose your self-respect, nor be too familiar with yourself when you are alone. Let your integrity itself be your own standard… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
I hold to the idea that civility, understood as the willingness to engage in public discourse, is the first virtue of citizens. — Mark Kingwell Copy Share Image
True love should be, according to its origin, entirely arbitrary and entirely accidental at the same time; it should seem both necessary… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
In order to be effective you need not only virtue but also mental strength. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
To be good Christians you have to contemplate the suffering humanity of Jesus. "How can we bear witness? Contemplate Jesus. How can… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
You have to make sure that [grants] reach people by virtue of their Identity Documents. — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
“The rain began to fall harder, and it distracted him, but he tried to pull himself back because he felt on the… — Robert Boswell Copy Share Image
...I believe there exists, & I feel within me, an instinct for the truth, or knowledge or discovery, of something of the… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Faith, Trust, Hope and Confidence are most important virtues one must possess for a successful life. Nobody or nothing can break you… — Anonymous 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
“Learning means bringing forth the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual knowledge, skills and values, that are within us. Our learning starts as… — Kasi Kaye Iliopoulos Copy Share Image
Never stop working on your statue until the divine glory of virtue shines out on you, until you see self-mastery enthroned upon… — Plotinus Copy Share Image
Our culture made a virtue of living only as extroverts. We discouraged the inner journey, the quest for a center. So we… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
All men are partially buried inthe grave of custom, and of some we see only the crown of the head above ground.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
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