Nobler Quotes

161 Nobler quotes by 131 unique authors

Writing is the hardest work in the world. I have been a bricklayer and a truck driver, and I tell you â€“ as if you… — Harlan Ellison
Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time. — Thomas Jefferson
After all, what nobler thought can one cherish than that the universe lives within us all? — Neil deGrasse Tyson
The life of the individual has meaning only insofar as it aids in making the life of every living thing nobler and more beautiful. Life… — Albert Einstein
To do good is noble. To tell others to do good is even nobler and much less trouble. — Mark Twain
Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account! — Epictetus
A poet is a painter in his way, he draws to the life, but in another kind; we draw the nobler part, the soul and… — Aphra Behn
Faith is about what you do. It's about aspiring to be better and nobler and kinder than you are. It's about making sacrifices for the… — Jim Butcher
But there were some things I believed in. Some things I had faith in. And faith isn't about perfect attendance to services, or how much… — Jim Butcher
To be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether 'tis Nobler in the mind to suffer The Slings and Arrows of outrageous Fortune,… — William Shakespeare
The various forms of education or â€˜normalizationâ€™ imposed upon an individual consist in making him or her change points of subjectification, always moving towards a… — Gilles Deleuze
Love is fed by the imagination, by which we become wiser than we know, better than we feel, nobler than we are: by which we… — Oscar Wilde
These books have not made George nobler or better or more truly wise. It is just that he likes listening to their voices, the one… — Christopher Isherwood
The egocentric is always frustrated, simply because the condition of self-perfection is self-surrender. There must be a willingness to die to the lower part of… — Fulton J. Sheen
Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed. There is no need for the whole universe to take… — Blaise Pascal
It takes years and maturity to make the discovery that the power of faith is nobler than the power of doubt; and that there is… — Harriet Beecher Stowe
One will abide, and will confess that another is nobler than he, that another is richer, more handsome, and even that he is more learned,… — Juana InÃ©s de la Cruz
Men are not dogs. We merely think we are and, on occasion, act as if we are. But, by believing in our nobler nature, women… — Neil Strauss
Nor is there wanting in the press Some spirit to stand simply forth, Heroic in it nakedness, Against the uttermost of earth. The tale of… — Robert Frost
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And… — William Shakespeare

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