“Patience, he told himself. Get yourself at least one virtue, anyway.” — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, it to understand things by intuition. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
To refrain from evil and from strong drink and to be always, steadfast in virtue; this is the good luck. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If our virtues did not go forth of us, it were all alike as if we had them not. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Memory's vices are also its virtues, elements of a bridge across time that allows us to link the mind with the world. — Daniel Schacter Copy Share Image
Our vices always lie in the direction of our virtues, and in their best estate are but plausible imitations of the latter. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is a shame for a man to desire honor because of his noble progenitors, and not to deserve it by his… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
Sincere prayer implies that when we ask for any virtue or blessing, we should work for the blessing and cultivate the virtue. — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
How transcendent is the virtue of the middle conduct! Rare for a long time has been its practice among the people. — Confucius Copy Share Image
“Being defiant is a two-year-old who doesn't want to go to bed when he's tired. Being resolute is standing one's ground even… — Minisinoo Copy Share Image
In Tibetan, authentic presence is wangthang, which literally means, 'field of power'... The cause or the virtue that brings about authentic presence… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
What then have I done? What, except yield to a natural feeling, inspired by beauty, sanctioned by virtue and kept at all… — Vicomte De Valmont Copy Share Image
Since nobody upstages Rudolph Giuliani, his will be a Broadway-class show, perhaps his final bravura performance before November 2000, when he hopes… — Gail Sheehy Copy Share Image
A learned historian declared to me of a contemporary, that the latter had appropriated his researches; he might, indeed, and he had… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
Those who preached faith, or in other words a pure mind, have always produced more popular virtue than those who preached good… — James Mackintosh Copy Share Image
Who is only good that others may know it, and that he may be the better esteemed when 'tis known, who will… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
One is not the victim of mentation but instead is the very originator by virtue of intention to extract projected value. With… — David Hawkins Copy Share Image
Since my logic aims to teach and instruct the understanding, not that it may with the slender tendrils of the mind snatch… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I wished to acquire the simplicity, native feelings, and virtues of savage life; to divest myself of the factitious habits, prejudices and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One of the most important virtues of the American character is our ability to approach the complexities that life presents us with… — Dick Gephardt Copy Share Image
People continued regardless of all that leads man forward to try to unite the incompatibles:;: the virtue of love, and what is… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The aim of education is to guide young persons in the process through which they shape themselves as human persons-armed with knowledge,… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
We are born knowing nothing and with much striving we learn but a little; yet all the while we are bound by… — Paul Elmer More Copy Share Image
The day is not far distant when three Stars and Stripes at three equidistant points will mark our territory: one at the… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
A man that hath no virtue in himself, ever envieth virtue in others. For men's minds, will either feed upon their own… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice. — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
