Noble Quotes

1309 Noble quotes by 838 unique authors

The most noble of all pursuits is to be enlightened, to know truth, to have knowledge and yet be beyond even truth and knowledge, to… — Frederick Lenz
I don't have hard numbers about this, but the impression I get is that the amount of eyeballs you get from being on the humor… — Randall Munroe
Joy is everywhere; it is in the earth's green covering of grass: in the blue serenity of the sky: in the reckless exuberance of spring:… — Rabindranath Tagore
Knowing what you know, be serene also, like a mountain; and do not be distressed by misfortune. Knowledge without serenity is an unlit candle; together… — Sanai
Those who recognize the existence of suffering, its cause, its remedy, and its cessation, have fathomed the four noble truths. They will walk in the… — Gautama Buddha
Israel also deprived the world of its chance of shedding tears of genuine sympathy over her destruction. The world resents this; it likes to feel… — George Mikes
Out of fear, out of the desire for approval, out of the misguided notions of duty, people surrender themselves-their convictions and their aspirations-every day. There… — Nathaniel Branden
...a man estimable for his learning, amiable for his life, and venerable for his piety. Arbuthnot was a man of great comprehension, skilful in his… — Samuel Johnson
[Herschel and Humboldt] stirred up in me a burning zeal to add even the most humble contribution to the noble structure of Natural Science. No… — Charles Darwin
All I'm saying is that you shouldn't stay with him for the wrong reasons, even if they are noble ones. No one owes it to… — Aprilynne Pike
A party with one idea; but that is a noble idea ... the idea of equality - the equality of all men before human tribunals… — William H. Seward
The United States has adventured upon a great and noble experiment . . . of total separation of Church and State. . . . The… — John Tyler
The market economy is deeply congruent with the values set out in the Hebrew Bible. Material prosperity is a divine blessing. Poverty crushes the spirit… — Jonathan Sacks
The enemies of the country and of freedom of the people have always denounced as bandits those who sacrifice themselves for the noble causes of… — Emiliano Zapata
I've always embraced failure as a noble pursuit. It allows you to be anti whatever anyone wants you to be, and to break all the… — Malcolm Mclaren
Women are in bondage; their clothes are a great hindrance to their engaging in any business which will make them pecuniarily independent, and since the… — Lucy Stone
The noble man is only God's image. — Johann Ludwig Tieck
It is, alas, chiefly the evil emotions that are able to leave their photographs on surrounding scenes and objects and whoever heard of a place… — Algernon Blackwood
So often when Black men have to play roles on TV, we're either the noble savage or we're completely a savage, and there's no nuance. — Don Cheadle
I have, for many years past, contemplated the noble races of red men who are now spread over these trackless forests and boundless prairies, melting… — George Catlin
One of the more noble things the Oscars can do is pay attention to movies no one knows about. Blockbusters don't need much help. — Jeff Daniels
At one time in my career, Barnes and Noble bookstores categorized my books as religious fiction. — Richard Paul Evans
The most noble and profitable invention of all other, was that of SPEECH, consisting of Names or Appellations, and their Connexion; whereby men register their… — Thomas Hobbes
I've passed the age of consciousness and righteous rage. I found that just surviving was a noble fight. — Billy Joel
In all my work I like to convey the fact that I like cooks, that it's noble toil and that it is hard. — Rocco DiSpirito

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