Human Virtue Quotes

20 quotes by 17 authors

Till women are more rationally educated, the progress in human virtue and improvement in knowledge must receive continual checks. — Mary Wollstonecraft
But whoso is heroic must find crises to try his edge. Human virtue demands her champions and martyrs, and the trial of persecution always proceeds. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Courage is the human virtue that counts most-courage to act on limited knowledge and insufficient evidence. That's all any of us have. — Robert Frost
Religions don't own compassion; it is a human virtue. — Karen Armstrong
The history of human conduct does not warrant that exalted opinion of human virtue which would make it wise in a nation to commit interests… — Alexander Hamilton
'I believe in oÂne God and Mohammed the Apostle of God,' is the simple and invariable profession of Islam. The intellectual image of the Deity… — Edward Gibbon
No man will subject himself to the ridicule of pretending that any natural connection subsists between the sun or the seasons, and the period within… — James Madison
Dogs are very different from cats in that they can be images of human virtue. They are like us. — Iris Murdoch
The most pernicious of absurdities is that weak, blind, stupid faith is better than the constant practice of every human virtue. — Walter Savage Landor
To know one's own desires, their meaning and their costs requires the highest human virtue: rationality. — Ayn Rand
For the young, the practice of equitation is a valuable lesson, as it requires the exercise of all human virtue. If they are introduced to… — Nuno Oliveira
Seldom indeed does human virtue rise From trunk to branch. — Dante Alighieri
For everything divine and human, virtue, fame, and honor, now obey the alluring influence of riches. — Horace
The belief in potential human virtue underlies the whole idea of the Bill of Rights; the document is a very tough guardian of that belief. — Roger Rosenblatt
Let us enquire. Who, then, shall challenge the words? Why are they challenged. And by whom? By those who call themselves the guardians of morality,… — Frances Wright
The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Degrees of ability vary, but the basic principle remains the same: the degree of a man's independence, initiative and personal love for his work determines… — Ayn Rand
Independence is the only gauge of human virtue and value. What a man is and makes of himself; not what he has or hasnâ€™t done… — Ayn Rand

Who Wrote These Human Virtue Quotes

17 authors contributed a total of 20 Human Virtue Quotes as follows: