Inevitability Quote by Douglas Adams

One is not called noble who harms living beings. By not harming living beings one is called noble.

— Gautama Buddha

The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

Without the high and noble the simple and vulgar is utterly mean; and without the simple and ordinary the noble and heroic is meaningless

— Anonymous

Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.

— Honore de Balzac

Nobility means strength of character, a word of honor, immovability and mind over matter.

— Anonymous

What can be nobler than the idea it gives us of the Supreme Being?

— Joseph Addison

When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.

— Gautama Buddha

Have we not all, amid life's petty strife, / Some pure idea of a noble life / That once seemed possible?

— Adelaide Anne Procter

“Noble natures cannot dwell in this world,”

— Honoré de Balzac

A nobleness to try for, A name to live and die for.

— George Parsons Lathrop

Very few among us are noble, or even mature, in all parts of our nature at the same time.

— Gertrude Lawrence

All noble things are as difficult as they are rare.

— Baruch Spinoza