Quote by Arthur Koestler

“The superior person cultivates virtue by bringing about revolution within himself.”

— I Ching

“Virtue is a system and men do heroic acts as part of the day's work and without self-consciousness.”

— Charles H. Cooley

“True virtue is knowing the self not by intellectual knowledge but by pure silence.”

— Amit Ray

“The virtue of man lies in his ability to correct his mistakes and continually make a new man of himself.”

— Anonymous

“Though he was inquiring into himself as closely as he could, he never even told himself that he had been dishonest. Fraud and dishonesty…

— Anthony Trollope

“Deception to a noble end, though regrettable, was sometimes necessary for a greater good. Lying for selfish reasons was the fertile dirt of immorality,…

— Terry Goodkind

“The highest virtue lies in self-learning or self-taught education. For it is the path that all the greatest men or those who have decided…

— Mwanandeke Kindembo

“However imperfect our conception of virtue, still let us cling to it; for a moment’s forgetfulness exposes us to all the malignant forces from…

— Maurice Maeterlinck

“[...] perhaps these thirty years of revolution had taught him that men are unfit for liberty, and he thought that he had spent his…

— W. Somerset Maugham

One's virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune.

— Boethius

“Virtue is a subordination of the passions to the intellect. It is to act in accordance with your highest convictions. It does not consist…

— Robert Ingersoll

“He used to say that there are only two sources of human vice—idleness and superstition, and only two virtues—activity and intelligence.”

— Leo Tolstoy