Virtue Quotes

3568 Virtue quotes by 1599 unique authors

The science of psychology has been far more successful on the negative than on the positive side; it has revealed to us much about man’s… — Abraham Maslow
Since art is a virtue of the intellect, it demands to communicate with the entire universe of the intellect. Hence it is that the normal… — Jacques Maritain
We, the lineal representatives of the successful enactors of one scene of slaughter after another, must, whatever more pacific virtues we may also possess, still… — William James
A work of art can be called revolutionary if, by virtue of the aesthetic transformation, it represents, in the exemplary fate of individuals, the prevailing… — Herbert Marcuse
Truthfulness has never been counted among the political virtues, and lies have always been regarded as justifiable tools in political dealings. — Hannah Arendt
Get it into your head once and for all, my simple and very fainthearted fellow, that what fools call humanness is nothing but a weakness… — Marquis de Sade
It is not histories I am writing, but lives; and in the most glorious deeds there is not always an indication of virtue or vice,… — Plutarch
This is a fact: Strength in the pursuit of peace is no vice; isolation in the pursuit of security is no virtue. — George H. W. Bush
We live by revelations, as Christians, as artists, which means we must be careful never to get set into rigid molds. The minute we begin… — Madeleine L'Engle
Man is in fact nailed down - like Christ on the Cross - to a grid of paradoxes . . . he balances between the… — Vaclav Havel
All... religions show the same disparity between belief and practice, and each is safe till it tries to exclude the rest. Test each sect by… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of which is often fatal to the best of talents; it supplies the place of… — William Gilmore Simms
I returned to Jerusalem, and it is by virtue of Jerusalem that I have written all that God has put into my heart and into… — Shmuel Yosef Agnon
For in order for capitalism to work -- in order for it to produce a good and a stable society -- the traditional Christian virtues… — Antonin Scalia
The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought. — Walter Gilbert
The arts and a belief in the values of the civil rights movement, in the overwhelming virtue of diversity, these were our religion. My parents… — Jonathan Lethem
I know that, as night and shadows are good for flowers, and moonlight and dews are better than a continual sun, so is Christ's absence… — Samuel Rutherford
By virtue of depression, we recall those misdeeds we buried in the depths of our memory. Depression exhumes our shames. — Emile M. Cioran
Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue. — Sinclair Lewis
The supreme virtue in art is soul, perhaps it is the only thing which gives it the right to be. — Willa Cather
I believe humility is a virtue, but I prefer not to use it unless it is absolutely necessary. — Helen Keller
Poverty is a virtue which one can teach oneself. — Diogenes
Male and female citizens, being equal in the eyes of the law, must be equally admitted to all honors, positions, and public employment according to… — Olympe de Gouges
I believe that saying a thing is to keep its virtues and take away its terror. — Fernando Pessoa
If we can implant in our people the Christian virtues which we sum up in the word character, and, at the same time, give them… — Unknown Author

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