Virtue Quotes

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A lodestone is a wonderful thing in very many experiments, and like living things. And one of its remarkable virtues in that which the ancients… — William Gilbert
It is easy to obtain confirmations, or verifications, for nearly every theory-if we look for confirmations. Confirmations should count only if they are the result… — Karl Popper
Twelve Priceless Qualities of Success: 1. The value of time. 2. The success of perseverance. 3. The pleasure of working. 4. The dignity of simplicity.… — Marshall Field
Of these austerer virtues the love of truth is the chief, and in mathematics, more than elsewhere, the love of truth may find encouragement for… — Bertrand Russell
The great experimental principle, then, is doubt, that philosophic doubt which leaves to the mind its freedom and initiative, and from which the virtues most… — Claude Bernard
It be urged that the wild and uncultivated tree, hitherto yielding sour and bitter fruit only, can never be made to yield better; yet we… — Thomas Jefferson
To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so many fail to assert rights to which they are perfectly entitled - because… — Oscar Wilde
War begets quiet, quiet idleness, idleness disorder, disorder ruin; likewise ruin order, order virtue, virtue glory, and good fortune. — Walter Raleigh
War both needs and generates certain virtues; not the highest, but what may be called the preliminary virtues, as valor, veracity, the spirit of obedience,… — Walter Bagehot
Weakness is more opposed to virtue than is vice. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It is an object of vast magnitude that systems of education should be adopted and pursued which may not only diffuse a knowledge of the… — Noah Webster
Indeed the general natural Tendency of Reading good History, must be, to fix in the Minds of Youth deep Impressions of the Beauty and Usefulness… — Benjamin Franklin
To instruct the mass of our citizens in these, their rights, interests and duties, as men and citizens...this brings us to the point at which… — Thomas Jefferson
Together, let us make this a new beginning. Let us make a commitment to care for the needy, to teach our children the values and… — Ronald Reagan
I toiled after it, sir, as some men toil after virtue. — Charles Lamb
The rediscovery of the value of one's baptism is the basis of the missionary commitment of every Christian, because we see in the Gospel that… — Pope Benedict XVI
[priests are] the pretenders to power and dominion, and to a superior sanctity of character, distinct from virtue and good morals. — David Hume
Faith means making a virtue out of not thinking. It's nothing to brag about; and those who preach faith and enable and elevate it are… — Bill Maher
If we did a good act merely from love of God and a belief that it is pleasing to Him, whence arises the morality of… — Thomas Jefferson
Men always try to make virtues of their weaknesses. Fear of death and fear of life both become piety. — H. L. Mencken
Religions don't own compassion; it is a human virtue. — Karen Armstrong
It is the enemy who can truly teach us to practice the virtues of compassion and tolerance. — Dalai Lama
Christian soldiers armed with virtue- hearts afire with blind obsession, cannot see the difference 'twixt compassion and oppression — Lucretia Mott
The word courage comes from the same stem as the French word Coeur, meaning "heart." Thus just as one's heart, by pumping blood to one's… — Rollo May
Sympathy for the lowest animals is one of the noblest virtues with which man is endowed. — Charles Darwin

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