All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force... We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
Those wretches who never have experienced the sweets of wisdom and virtue, but spend all their time in revels and debauches, sink… — Plato Copy Share Image
No people are true Christians who do not think constantly of how they can lift their brother and sister, how they can… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
General McChrystal had to go. Whatever his virtues as a strategist and commander, the 'Rolling Stone' interview fatally compromised his ability to… — Jim Talent Copy Share Image
Education was not merely a means for earning a living or an instrument for the acquisition of wealth. It was an initiation… — Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit Copy Share Image
The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty… — Elizabeth Taylor Copy Share Image
There is but one pursuit in life which it is in the power of all to follow, and of all to attain.… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I admit I can't shake the idea that there is virtue in suffering, that there is a sort of psychic economy, whereby… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
When like the patriarchs we learn to dig wells of virtue and spiritual knowledge within ourselves by means of ascetic practice and… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
As gratitude is a necessary, and a glorious virtue, so also it is an obvious, a cheap, and an easy one; so… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
“The world is a busy place filled with many busy businesses, both the Godly and the ungodly. It means before you go… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
As every flower fades and as all youth departs, so life at every stage, so every virtue, so our grasp of truth… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
There's nothing of any importance in life - except how well you do your work. Nothing. Only that. Whatever else you are,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
For a few thousand years, women had no history. Marriage was our calling, and meekness our virtue. Over the last century, in… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
“To the daughters of Eve, that they may teach men that love is not lechery, nor the simony of voluptuousness, but a… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
We often wonder why God gives and takes, constricts and expands. What we forget is that human beings understand things by their… — Yasmin Mogahed Copy Share Image
There are men whom a happy disposition, a strong desire of glory and esteem, inspire with the same love for justice and… — Claude Adrien Helvetius Copy Share Image
For that which all men then did virtue call, Is now called vice; and that which vice was hight, Is now hight… — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
I don't like it when people ask actors to work for free – on the fringe – as if it's some kind… — Andrew Scott Copy Share Image
I thank God that I have lived to see my country independent and free. She may long enjoy her independence and freedom… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Yet it seems to me finishing well in this life is not so much about who is the best or greatest at… — Beverly Lewis Copy Share Image
I forsee a marked deterioration in American musicand a host of other injuries to music in its artistic manifestations, by virtue—or rather… — John Philip Sousa Copy Share Image
The world would be astonished if it knew how great a proportion of its brightest ornaments, of those distinguished even in popular… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Hope is a horrible thing, you know. I don't know who decided to package hope as a virtue because it's not. It's… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“The virtue of good health will increasingly become a priority of the incoming culture because it will be the gauge of the… — Master Del Pe Copy Share Image
There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or to be acted out… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
I look to the diffusion of light and education as the resource most to be relied on for ameliorating the condition, promoting… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I cannot however help repeating Piety, because I think it indispensible. Religion in a Family is at once its brightest Ornament &… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
The virtues which keep this world sweet and the faithfulness which keeps it steadfast are chiefly those of the average man. The… — Walter Russell Bowie Copy Share Image
Here, again, as I conceive, gentlemen forget that this government is a republican one, resting exclusively in the intelligence and virtue of… — Caleb Cushing Copy Share Image
By virtue of the Deity thought renews itself inexhaustibly every day and the thing whereon it shines, though it were dust and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The moral virtues, without religion are but cold, lifeless, and insipid; it is only religion which opens the mind to great conceptions,… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
There is... an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents... The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
He who, conscious of being strong, is content to be weak, he shall be the paragon of mankind. Being the paragon of… — Laozi Copy Share Image
I may be stupid, as you say, to believe in honour and friendship and loyalty without price. But these are virtues to… — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
Cicero calls gratitude the mother of virtues the most capital of all duties, and uses the words grateful and good as synonymous… — Julius Bate Copy Share Image
The practical revolutionary will understand Goethe's 'conscience is the virtue of observers and not of agents of action'; in action, one does… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
There is such a thing as caste, even in the West; but it is comparatively faint; it is conservatism here. It says,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In debate, one randomly was assigned to one side or the other. This had at least one virtue - it made one… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
