Noblest Quotes

298 quotes by 236 authors

Are not our noblest feelings as it were the poems of our will. — Honore de Balzac
The highest and noblest thing that history can be is a good story. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
This was the noblest Roman of them all. All the conspirators, save only he,Did that they did in envy of Caesar;He only, in a general… — William Shakespeare
The slanders of the pen pierce to the heart; they rankle longest in the noblest spirits; they dwell ever present in the mind and render… — Washington Irving
An honest God is the noblest work of man. — Robert Green Ingersoll
Liberalism -- it is well to recall this today -- is the supreme form of generosity; it is the right which the majority concedes to… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
Greek philosophers considered sport a religious and civic-in a word, moral-undertaking. Sport, they said, is morally serious because mankind's noblest aim is the loving contemplation… — George Will
Nature, in giving tears to man, confessed that he Had a tender heart; this is our noblest quality. — Juvenal
Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated. — Miguel de Unamuno
That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
We do not want nowadays temples of worship and outward rites and ceremonies. What we really want is an Asram. We want a place where… — Rabindranath Tagore
Happiness is at once the best, the noblest, and the pleasantest of things. — Aristotle
Sight is the noblest sense of man. — Albrecht Durer
I am convinced that the world is not a mere bog in which men and women trample themselves and die. Something magnificent is taking place… — Charles A. Beard
It indicates a person who has not only good manners but who possesses a sense of balance, a sure mastery of himself, a moral discipline… — Antonio Gramsci
The highest and noblest work in this life is that of a mother. — Russell M. Nelson
Instrumental or mechanical science is the noblest and above all others, the most useful. — Leonardo da Vinci
The search for truth is, as it always has been, the noblest expression of the human spirit. Man's insatiable desire for knowledge about himself, about… — Raymond B. Fosdick
The finest piece of mechanism in all the universe is the brain of man. The wise person develops his brain, and opens his mind to… — Alfred Armand Montapert
Faith marches at the head of the army of progress. -It is found beside the most refined life, the freest government, the profoundest philosophy, the… — Theodore T. Munger

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