One doesn’t have to operate with great malice to do great harm. The absence of empathy and understanding are sufficient. In fact,… — Charles M. Blow Copy Share Image
If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
True knowledge is a virtue of the talented, but harmful to those without discernment. Spring water free of impurity, entering the ocean,… — Akkineni Nagarjuna Copy Share Image
Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
When even one virtue becomes our nature, the mind becomes clean and tranquil. Then there is no need to practice meditation; we… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Character is the sum of one's good habits (virtues) and bad habits (vices). These habits mark us and affect the ways in… — Thomas Lickona Copy Share Image
. . . Virtue, morality, and religion. This is the armor, my friend, and this alone that renders us invincible. These are… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for justification, sanctification, and eternal life by virtue… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
And all knowledge, when separated from justice and virtue, is seen to be cunning and not wisdom; wherefore make this your first… — Plato Copy Share Image
[...] Technology has tended to devaluate the traditional vision-inducing materials. The illumination of a city, for example, was once a rare event,… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Among those whose reputation is exhausted in a short time by its own luxuriance are the writers who take advantage of present… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“After all, truth is not always a virtue when it is pursued for its own sake or, worse, simply to make its… — Josh Sundquist Copy Share Image
I think there are probably a lot of actors like me who I think probably struggle to feel comfortable in their own… — Jesse Eisenberg Copy Share Image
If we can't think for ourselves, if we're unwilling to question authority, then we're just putty in the hands of those in… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
If we keep the path of virtue undefiled through devout and true knowledge, and do not deviate to either side, we will… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
“But what is liberty without wisdom and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
By far the most dangerous foe we have to fight is apathy-indifference from whatever cause, not from a lack of knowledge, but… — William Osler Copy Share Image
“…dazzled by the shine of their own virtue, a shine that might not last (since virtue, once recognized in a flash, has… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
If we were faultless, we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate. If we… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
This severe, ascetic music, calm and horizontal as the line of the ocean, monotonous by virtue of its serenity, anti-sensuous, and yet… — Charles Gounod Copy Share Image
“Hei mihi quod tanto virtus perfusa decore non habet eternos inviolata dies' Alas, that so much virtue suffused with beauty should not… — Nicholas Hilliard Copy Share Image
What virtue is there in a man who demonstrates goodness because he has been bred to it? It is his habit from… — Deanna Raybourn Copy Share Image
Righteousness alone can exalt them [America] as a nation. Reader! Whoever thou art, remember this, and in thy sphere practice virtue thyself… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
I'm not one of those people who think you should go grey and that there is some virtue in looking wrinkly if… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
I considered mores to be one of the great general causes responsible for the maintenance of a democratic republic . . .… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
The great virtue of a free market is that it enables people who hate each other, or who are from vastly different… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Much has already been said about the indisputable integrity of men such as AB Bardhan and Prakash Karat. So, why is it… — Barkha Dutt Copy Share Image
It has been well said that 'he who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.' The two are not… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
A disease of the mind, [whose] germ is the idea that one may learn that which is valuable, or in any way… — Kingsley Martin Copy Share Image
Nothing can compare in beauty, and wonder, and admirableness, and divinity itself, to the silent work in obscure dwellings of faithful women… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“No vices?’ ‘No vices.’ ‘Except men,’ Simon says. A tree branch waves in front of the living room window, blocking the sun,… — Chloe Benjamin Copy Share Image
Ideas, Mike Jones, an engineer at Google explained, were like babies - everything about their environment said they shouldn't exist. But they… — Steven Levy Copy Share Image
There is a holy love and a holy rage, and our best virtues never glow so brightly as when our passions are… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
It is not virtue, wisdom, valour, wit, Strength, comeliness of shape, or amplest merit, That woman's love can win, or long inherit;… — John Milton Copy Share Image
He had fallen into the error of all liberals: the belief that men are prepared to reform themselves, that good will attracts… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The virtue of losing is we get used to the fact that competing and to lose doesn't kill you. It just makes… — Po Bronson Copy Share Image
Vices are ingredients of virtues just as poisons are ingredients of remedies. Prudence mixes and tempers them and uses them effectively against… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
What is the greatest thing ye can experience? It is the hour of great contempt. The hour in which even your happiness… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“In the Bible, the opposite of Sin, with a capital 'S,' is not virtue - it's faith: faith in a God who… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
No piled-up wealth, no social station, no throne, reaches as high as that spiritual plane upon which every human being stands by… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
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