Ideas Quote by Adelaide Anne Procter

Have we not all, amid life's petty strife, Some pure ideal of a noble life That once seemed possible? Did we not hear The…

— Adelaide Anne Procter

Nobleness was one word for making a fuss about the trivial inevitabilities of life, but there were others.

— Douglas Adams

“...civilization has absolutely no need of nobility or heroism. These things are symptoms of political inefficiency. In a properly organized society like ours, nobody…

— Aldous Huxley

Very few among us are noble, or even mature, in all parts of our nature at the same time.

— Gertrude Lawrence

Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.

— Matthew Arnold

This searching and doubting and vacillating where nothing is clear but the arrogance of quest. I, too, had such noble ideas when I was…

— Franz Grillparzer

My daily affairs are quite ordinary; but I'm in total harmony with them. I don't hold on to anything, don't reject anything; nowhere an…

— Layman Pang

“civilization has absolutely no need of nobility or heroism. These things are symptoms of political inefficiency. In a properly organized society like ours, nobody…

— Aldous Huxley

There is One great society alone on earth: The noble living and the noble dead.

— William Wordsworth

We will not think noble because we are not noble. We will not live in beautiful harmony because there is no such thing in…

— Lillian Hellman

I have often felt as though I had inherited all the defiance and all the passions with which our ancestors defended their Temple and…

— Sigmund Freud

Retracing the various episodes of one's life, one is disconcerted to discover that one was not as noble as one thought oneself at the…

— Phyllis Bentley