Simple ignorance has in its time been complimented by the names of most of the vices, and of all the virtues. — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
“Perception of personal danger very often set people on the path of virtue.” — Donna Leon Copy Share Image
He [the "specialist"] is one who, out of all that has to be known in order to be a man of judgment,… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
The heroic soul does not sell its justice and its nobleness. It does not ask to dine nicely and to sleep warm.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“I allow that it is easier to touch the body of a saint, or to be magnetised, than to restrain our appetites… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
No more verbally incomprehensible no more devoid of the vision thing and no more the cautious pragmatist proudly displaying the virtues of… — Bob Dole Copy Share Image
A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world. Just as a flower, by… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
Three cardinal virtues of business: creativity, building community, practical realism. — Ted Malloch Copy Share Image
Self-will seems to be the only virtue that takes no account of man-made laws. — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
That wealth and greatness are often regarded with the respect and admiration which are due only to wisdom and virtue; and that… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Courage becomes a worthwhile and meaningful virtue when it is regarded not so much as a willingness to die manfully but as… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
I used to suppose that certain evils could never befall a being in possession of a sound mind; that true virtue supplies… — Charles Brockden Brown Copy Share Image
According to Solomon, life and death are in the power of the tongue; and as Euripides truly affirmeth, every unbridled tongue in… — Walter Raleigh 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
... bringing up daughters for nothing but marriage, mingles poison in the cup of domestic life, is traitorous to the virtue of… — Harriot Kezia Hunt Copy Share Image
Above all things endeavor to breed them up the love of virtue, and that holy plain way of it which we have… — William Penn Copy Share Image
Industry, economy, honesty and kindness form a quartet of virtue that will never be improved upon. — Jamie Oliver Copy Share Image
Riches are oft by guilt and baseness earn'd; Or dealt by chance to shield a lucky knave, Or throw a cruel sunshine… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
Work, mental or manual, is the means whereby attention is compelled, it is the instrument of all knowledge and virtue, the root… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
Kindness is a virtue neither modern nor urban. One almost unlearns it in a city. Towns have their own beatitude; they are… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
When one ceases from conflict, whether because he has won, because he has lost, or because he cares no more for the… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
Discard the protective rags of that vice which you called a virtue: humility. Learn to value yourself, which means: to FIGHT for… — John Galt Copy Share Image
Reading is a gift. It's something you can do almost anytime and anywhere. It can be a tremendous way to learn, relax,… — Richard Carlson Copy Share Image
The public cannot be too curious concerning the characters of public men. — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Spiritually evolved people, by virtue of their discipline, mastery and love, are people of extraordinary competence, and in their competence they are… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or… — Giorgio Armani Copy Share Image
So, the next time you're out working on your game and they pass you the rock, don't just take it to the… — Michael Jordan Copy Share Image
The business of the biographer is often to pass slightly over those performances and incidents which produce vulgar greatness, to lead the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Death is the advertisement, at the end of an autobiography, wherein people discover its virtues. — Myrtle Reed Copy Share Image
“Of all the virtues, discretion began to seem the most rewarding: it kept people guessing and sometimes, by default, admiring.” — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
It is entirely possible that Limbaugh himself never needed contraception in college, but virtue in the absence of opportunity is hardly a… — Kathleen Parker Copy Share Image
I find contemporary Holocausts against other species so unbearable as to make life itself a fundamental question mark. Are we a demonic,… — Michael Tobias Copy Share Image
I loathe and detest people who pretend they don't care what people think about them as if that is a virtue, when… — Jess Phillips Copy Share Image
Love knows no virtue, no profit; it loves and forgives and suffers everything, because it must. It is not our judgment that… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
Only passions, and great passions, can raise the soul to great things. Without them there is no sublimity, either in morals or… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Will you tell me how to prevent riches from producing luxury? Will you tell me how to prevent luxury from producing effeminacy,… — John Adams Copy Share Image
![“He [the "specialist"] is one who, out of all that has to be known in order to be a man of judgment, is only acquainted with one science, and even of that one only knows the small corner in which he is an active investigator. He even proclaims it as a virtue that he takes no cognisance of what lies…” quote by Jose Ortega y Gasset](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/716/jose-ortega-y-gasset-1688_active_he-the-specialist-is-one-who-out-of-all_1906395.jpg)
