Noble Quotes

1309 Noble quotes by 838 unique authors

Of all the differences between man and the lower animals, the moral sense or conscience is by far the most important . . . [I]t… — Charles Darwin
I fully subscribe to the judgement of those writers who maintain that of all the differences between man and the lower animal, the moral sense… — Charles Darwin
Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted colour off ... Do not for ever with thy vailed lids Seek for thy noble father in the dust. — William Shakespeare
We were preparing not Peace only, but Eternal Peace. There was about us the halo of some divine mission. We were bent on doing great,… — Harold Nicolson
Commit yourself to the noble struggle for human rights. You will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your country and a… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is meant that noble minds keep ever with their likes; for who so firm that cannot be seduced. — William Shakespeare
It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written. — Andre Gide
A state is not a mere society, having a common place, established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake of exchange. .… — Aristotle
It is noble to teach oneself; it is still nobler to teach others. — Mark Twain
The life of man is made up of action and endurance; the life is fruitful in the ratio in which it is laid out in… — Henry Parry Liddon
Do noble things, not dream them all day long: And so make Life, Death, and the vast Forever one grand, sweet song. — Charles Kingsley
It is only after an unknown number of unrecorded labors, after a host of noble hearts have succumbed in discouragement, convinced that their cause is… — Francois Guizot
Greediness consists in ravishing the goods of another through violence or cunning, as in the two noble professions of the conqueror and courtier. But the… — Augustin Thierry
No one is an unjust villain in his own mind. Even - perhaps even especially those who are the worst of us. Some of the… — Jim Butcher
For what purpose humanity is there should not even concern us: why you are here, that you should ask yourself: and if you have no… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The lie is so vile, that even if it were in speaking well of godly things, it would take off something from God's grace; and… — Leonardo da Vinci
Anger is a more noble emotion than indifference. — Terry Rossio
When mourning the loss of our departed friends, I cannot help but think that in every death there is a birth; the spirit leaves the… — Wilford Woodruff
There are only two noble pursuits in life: knowledge and love. — Carlos Salinas de Gortari
For words divide and rend But silence is most noble till the end. — Algernon Charles Swinburne

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