Noble Quotes

1309 Noble quotes by 838 unique authors

Thus I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence, which is a noble thing. — Winston Churchill
Remembering is a noble and necessary act. The call of memory, the call to memory, reaches us from the very dawn of history. No commandment… — Elie Wiesel
The lives of heroes have enriched history, and history has adorned the actions of heroes ; and thus I cannot say whether the historians are… — Jean de la Bruyere
When, after having read a work, loftier thoughts arise in your mind and noble and heartfelt feelings animate you, do not look for any other… — Jean de la Bruyere
Conviction brings a silent, indefinable beauty into faces made of the commonest human clay; the devout worshiper at any shrine reflects something of its golden… — Honore de Balzac
Socialism is the preparation for that higher Anarchism; painfully, laboriously we mean to destroy false ideas of property and self, eliminate unjust laws and poisonous… — H.G. Wells
If kings would only determine not to extend their dominions until they had filled them with happiness, they would find the smallest territories too large,… — Charles Caleb Colton
I count this thing to be grandly true: That a noble deed is a step toward God. — Bill Vaughan
The history of mankind is a romance, a mask, a tragedy, constructed upon the principles of POETICAL JUSTICE; it is a noble or royal hunt,… — William Hazlitt
I imagine you already know that I am much more socialistic in my economic theory than capitalistic. And yet I am not so opposed to… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Politics is a noble activity. We should revalue it, practise it with vocation and a dedication that requires testimony, martyrdom, that is to die for… — Pope Francis
Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations,… — Mahatma Gandhi
Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being. — Khalil Gibran
A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement - but it passes away… — Joseph Conrad
Treachery is noble when aimed at tyranny. — Pierre Corneille
I hope I'm remembered as the king of the world, the noble man who united all the nations of the earth. But that probably won't… — Macaulay Culkin
We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp… — Charles Darwin
To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. What a noble aim is that of the zealot who tortures himself like… — Denis Diderot
The association promotes a way of life, not causes; a harmony in living, not political faiths; a bilateral loyalty, not commercial or social projects. Yet… — William O. Douglas
A lot of people just go to movies that feed into their preexisting and not so noble needs and desires: They just go to action… — Roger Ebert
Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures. — M.F.K. Fisher
Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it. — Henry Ford

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