Noblest Quotes

298 quotes by 240 authors

The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves. — Socrates
The progress of the American Revolution has been so rapid and such the alteration of manners, the blending of characters, and the new train of… — Mercy Otis Warren
This sight... is by far the noblest astronomy affords. — Edmond Halley
We hail science as man's truest friend and noblest helper. — Moses Harvey
The noblest relationship is marriage, that is, love. Its nobility resides in its altruism, the desire to serve another beyond all the pleasures of the… — John Fowles
For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories... The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be… — Plato
Earth's noblest thing,-a woman perfected. — James Russell Lowell
The people who kill and torture and tell lies in the name of their sacred causes, these are never the publicans and the sinners. No,… — Aldous Huxley
The Walls enriched with Fruit-trees and faced with a covering of their leafy extensions; I should rather have said hung with different Pieces of Nature's… — James Hervey
Gnosis is lived upon facts, withers away in abstractions, and is difficult to find even in the noblest of thoughts. — Samael Aun Weor
[On Sophie Germain] When a person of the sex which, according to our customs and prejudices, must encounter infinitely more difficulties than men... succeeds nevertheless… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
The noblest Digladiation is in the Theatre of ourselves. — Thomas Browne
The proof that man is the noblest of all creatures is that no other creature has ever denied it. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
The wisest and noblest teacher is nature itself. — Leonardo da Vinci
Liberalism... is the noblest cry that has ever resounded in this planet. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
As far as our noblest hardwood forests are concerned, the animals, especially squirrels and jays, are our greatest and almost only benefactors. It is to… — Henry David Thoreau
When one speaks of humanity, the idea is fundamental that this is something which separates and distinguishes man from nature. In reality, however, there is… — Friedrich Nietzsche
As to the human race. There are many pretty and winning things about the human race. It is perhaps the poorest of all the inventions… — Mark Twain
One of the noblest words in our language is "grace," defined as "unearned blessing." We live by grace far more than by anything else. Accordingly,… — D. Elton Trueblood
For what are the classics but the noblest thoughts of man? They are the only oracles which are not decayed, and there are such answers… — Henry David Thoreau

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