The shudder of awe is humanity's highest faculty, Even though this world is forever altering its values. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Charity is not a virtue to expect in others only. It is the all-important Christian attribute to be found in ourselves. .… — Henry D. Moyle Copy Share Image
There is regressivity built into the tax code by virtue of its complexity. — Wendy Long Copy Share Image
Confronting the US made him [Hugo Chavez] a target for demonization. Partisan and/or lazy journalism exaggerated his faults, ignored his virtues, and… — Rory Carroll Copy Share Image
Dishonesty is not the only alternative to honesty. There is also the highly underrated virtue of shutting up. — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
The attainment of truth is then the function of both the intellectual parts of the soul. Therefore their respective virtues are those… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“Vision, Uncertainty, and Knowledge of Materials are inevitabilities that all artists must acknowledge and learn from: vision is always ahead of execution,… — David Bayles Copy Share Image
“That's your cruelty, that's what's mean and selfish about you. If you loved your brother, you'd give him a job he didn't… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Acid Salts have the Power of Destroying the Blewness of the Infusion of our Wood [lignum nephreticum], and those Liquors indiscriminatly that… — Robert Boyle Copy Share Image
I love him who reserveth no share of spirit for himself, but wanteth to be wholly the spirit of his virtue: thus… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Whenever the spirit of fanaticism, at once so credulous and so crafty, has insinuated itself into a noble mind, it insensibly corrodes… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Maybe that's one of the virtues of the 2016 election that we're going through is all of this racism and xenophobia and… — Annette Bening Copy Share Image
Machineries of reason, machineries of conduct, machineries of virtue. The machine that regulates instinct, keeps one’s hands free of another man’s throat,… — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
FAITH. No one word personifies the absolute worst and most wicked properties of religion better than that. Faith is mind-rot. It’s the… — PZ Myers Copy Share Image
When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it, and avarice possesses the whole community.… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Believe me, Eugenie, the words "vice" and "virtue" supply us only with local meanings. There is no action, however bizarre you may… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
The root of all virtue and grace, of all faith and acceptable worship, is that we know that we have nothing but… — Andrew Murray Copy Share Image
The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice. So long as men are… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Virtue does not come from wealth, but wealth, and every other good thing which men have comes from virtue. — Socrates Copy Share Image
Who stands firm? Only the one for whom the final standard is not his reason, his principles, his conscience, his freedom, his… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
We learn many virtues in our Christian families. Above all, we learn to love, asking nothing in return. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Patriotism is understood to be that virtue which consists in serving one's country; but in what way is this 'Patria' or country… — Marie Corelli Copy Share Image
There is, however, no advantage in reflections on the past further than may be of service to the present. For the future… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
We are not very pleased when we are forced to accept a mathematical truth by virtue of a complicated chain of formal… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
The faith of scientists in the power and truth of mathematics is so implicit that their work has gradually become less and… — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
Constancy, far from being a virtue, seems often to be the besetting sin of the human race, daughter of laziness and self-sufficiency,… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
“A loving mother makes sacrifices for peace and laughter to reign in her home and family.” — Agu Jaachynma N.E Copy Share Image
Where is the reward of virtue? and what recompense has nature provided for such important sacrifices as those of life and fortune,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
We seldom speak of the virtue which we have, but much oftener of that which we lack. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Keith Richards ... was once asked how he came up with all those amazing guitar riffs. His answer? He just starts playing… — Mark Stevenson Copy Share Image
Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all. And faith means believing the incredible, or it… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The beauty of the horror genre is that you can smuggle in these harder stories, and the genre comes with certain demands,… — Ari Aster Copy Share Image
“In conformity with this spirit and aim of the Stoa, Epictetus begins with it and constantly returns to it as the kernel… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
He is man whose heart is spirited and eyes are wet each moment on account of the sorrow, compassion, virtue, beauty, and… — Kedar Joshi Copy Share Image
A good judge should never boast of his power, because he can do nothing but what he can do justly: he is… — Thomas F. Wilson Copy Share Image