Noble Quotes

1309 Noble quotes by 838 unique authors

What is the noble truth of suffering? Birth is suffering, ageing is suffering and sorrow and lamentation, pain, grief and despair are suffering. — Gautama Buddha
Of what use are pedigrees, or to be thought of noble blood, or the display of family portraits, O Ponticus? — Juvenal
While I live, no rich or noble knave shall walk the world in credit to his grave. — Alexander Pope
Painting with all its technicalities, difficulties, and peculiar ends, is nothing but a noble and expressive language, invaluable as the vehicle of thought, but by… — John Ruskin
Darwin was not afraid to look deeply into the void. His bold view can be seen as either noble and pessimistic or noble and admirable.… — Primo Levi
The scenery of mountains painted on the ever-changing azure canvas of the sky, the mysterious mechanism of the human body, the rose, the green grass… — Paramahansa Yogananda
There are tonalities which are noble and others which are vulgar, harmonies which are calm or consoling, and others which are exciting because of their… — Paul Gauguin
History is not the story of heroes entirely. It is often the story of cruelty and injustice and shortsightedness. There are monsters, there is evil,… — David McCullough
The biggest mischief in the past century has been perpetrated by Rousseau with his doctrine of the goodness of human nature. The mob and the… — Jacob Burckhardt
Virtue alone is the unerring sign of a noble soul. — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
Every noble deed dieth, if suppressed in silence. — Pindar
Now then, you of noble mind, who love this profession, come at once to art and accept these precepts: enthusiasm , reverence, obedience, and perseverance.… — Cennino Cennini
It is perhaps common in the world for individuals and nations to suffer for their noble qualities more than for their ignoble ones. For nobility… — Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Painting, art in general, enchants me. It is my life. What else matters? When you put all your soul into a work, all that is… — Camille Pissarro
I wish to be of service to the artists of our own day, by showing them how a small beginning leads to the highest elevation,… — Giorgio Vasari
The glorious memory of brave men is continually renewed; the fame of those who have performed any noble deed is never allowed to die; and… — Polybius
The passengers and crew of United Airlines Flight 93, recognizing the potential danger that the aircraft they were aboard posed to large numbers of innocent… — Arlen Specter
Man is mortal. Everyone has to die some day or the other. But one must resolve to lay down one's life in enriching the noble… — B R Ambedkar
Our diplomacy ended up giving a bad conscience to an international community capable only of expressing noble sentiments while doing nothing, .. So how can… — Alain Juppe
It is the clash of two different worlds that makes British-ness unique - we have an aristocratic, noble history, but it is always contrasted with… — Christopher Bailey
Mountains in all their moods are symbols of something greater, something worth aspiring to. Mountains are powerful, dangerous, beautiful, noble and mysterious. Mountains get respect. — Robert Genn
Landscape painting tends to fall under more academic controls. I must say I often like working within these controls. It gives me the feeling that… — Robert Genn
It requires a conviction that every people has a unique contribution to give to mankind, and that this they must make or remain sterile, subservient,… — Lawren Harris
Teaching, the most noble profession, should be rewarded based on merit alone, not seniority. — Mark Kostabi
Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot run away; and if they could, they would still be destroyed,-chased and hunted down as long as fun… — John Muir

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