Better Quote by Hamilton Wright Mabie

Many of us, whether in the jungles of Asia or on the streets of Chicago, had discovered that noble causes can lead to ignoble…

— Linda Grant

Life is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

If there is no point in the universe that we discover by the methods of science, there is a point that we can give…

— Steven Weinberg

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake,…

— Albert Einstein

To conquer oneself is the best and noblest victory; to be vanquished by one's own nature is the worst and most ignoble defeat.

— Plato

Men were created for something better than merely to make money. A close application to business, until a competence is gained, is one of…

— Christian Nestell Bovee

There is nothing truly beautiful but that which can never be of any use whatsoever; everything useful is ugly, for it is the expression…

— Theophile Gautier

“Javert, though hideous, was not ignoble.”

— Victor Hugo

Man, do not pride yourself on your superiority to the animals, for they are without sin, while you, with all your greatness, you defile…

— Anonymous

It is perhaps common in the world for individuals and nations to suffer for their noble qualities more than for their ignoble ones. For…

— Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Yet, every now and then, there would pass a young girl, slender, fair and desirable, arousing in young men a not ignoble desire to…

— Anatole France

Meaning lies in the confrontation of contradiction - the coincidencia apositorum. That’s what we really feel, not these rational schemes that are constantly beating…

— Terence McKenna