Highest Virtue Quotes

11 quotes by 9 authors

• The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, it to understand things by intuition. — Baruch Spinoza
• O son, thou hast not true humility, The highest virtue, mother of them all; But her thou hast not know; for what is this? Thou… — Alfred Lord Tennyson
• The highest virtue is not virtuous. Therefore it has virtue. The lowest virtue holds on to virtue. Therefore it has no virtue. — Laozi
• The highest virtue does nothing. Yet, nothing needs to be done. The lowest virtue does everything. Yet, much remains to be done. — Laozi
• The highest virtue seems as low as a valley. — Laozi
• The highest virtue is always against the law. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Thought, true labor of any kind, highest virtue itself, is it not the daughter of Pain? — Thomas Carlyle
• But tell me: how did gold get to be the highest value? Because it is uncommon and useless and gleaming and gentle in its brilliance;… — Friedrich Nietzsche
• Extremism is the pursuit of the presidency is an unpardonable vice. Moderation in the affairs of the nation is the highest virtue. — Lyndon B. Johnson
• Humility, the place of entire dependence on God, is the first duty and the highest virtue of the creature, and the root of every virtue.… — Andrew Murray
• In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or… — Denis Diderot

Who Wrote These Highest Virtue Quotes

9 authors contributed a total of 11 Highest Virtue Quotes as follows:

• 3 Highest Virtue Quotes by Laozi
• 1 Highest Virtue Quote by Baruch Spinoza
• 1 Highest Virtue Quote by Alfred Lord Tennyson
• 1 Highest Virtue Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
• 1 Highest Virtue Quote by Thomas Carlyle
• 1 Highest Virtue Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche
• 1 Highest Virtue Quote by Lyndon B. Johnson
• 1 Highest Virtue Quote by Andrew Murray
• 1 Highest Virtue Quote by Denis Diderot