Ignoble Quotes

62 Ignoble quotes by 51 unique authors

Man, do not pride yourself on your superiority to the animals, for they are without sin, while you, with all your greatness, you defile the… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Meaning lies in the confrontation of contradiction - the coincidencia apositorum. That’s what we really feel, not these rational schemes that are constantly beating us… — Terence McKenna
Feeling lonely and ignoble indicates that you haven't been patient. — Rumi
In speaking to you men of the greatest city of the West, men of the state which gave to the country Lincoln and Grant, men… — Theodore Roosevelt
He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since… — Albert Einstein
Cruelty to animals is one of the most significant vices of a low and ignoble people. Wherever one notices them, they constitute a sign of… — Alexander von Humboldt
The pillory and stocks, the gibbet, and even the whipping-post, have seen many a noble victim, many a martyr. But I cannot think any save… — Alice Morse Earle
If corporate leaders and their acolytes are not slaves to some meritorious social purpose, they run the risk of being enslaved by their own ignoble… — Gary Hamel
They that deny a God destroy man's nobility, for certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body; and if he is not… — Francis Bacon Sr
He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for… — Albert Einstein
We destroy the love of learning in children, which is so strong when they are small, by encouraging and compelling them to work for petty… — John Holt
Many of us, whether in the jungles of Asia or on the streets of Chicago, had discovered that noble causes can lead to ignoble actions… — Linda Grant

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