Ignoble Quote by Norman Douglas Download Open image “No one can expect a majority to be stirred by motives other than ignoble.” — Norman Douglas ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ignoble Majority Motive
Since all motives at bottom are selfish and ignoble, we may judge acts and qualities only be their effects. — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
The most terrible of motives and the most unanswerable of responses: Because. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
We must never forget that human motives are generally far more complicated than we are apt to suppose, and that we can very rarely… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is a question of fact, whether the influence of motives be fixed by laws of nature, so that they shall always have the… — Thomas Reid Copy Share Image
I can understand that people who have a very different view to mine are motivated by the purest of motives. All I ask is… — Scott Morrison Copy Share Image
What we believe to be the motives of our conduct are usually but the pretexts for it. — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
Too great a preoccupation with motives (especially one's own motive) is liable to lead to too little concern for consequences. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Where two motives, neither of them perfectly justifiable, may be assigned, the worst has the chance of being preferred. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I know how easy it is for some minds to glide along with the current of popular opinion, where influence, respectability, and all those… — Benjamin F. Wade Copy Share Image
Sincerity of conviction and purity of motive will surely gain the day; and even a small minority, armed with these, is surely destined to… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
People who have reformed themselves has contributed their full share towards the reformation of their neighbor. — Norman Douglas Copy Share Image
The true cook is the perfect blend, the only perfect blend, of artist and philosopher. He knows his worth: he holds in his palm… — Norman Douglas Copy Share Image
One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out. — Norman Douglas Copy Share Image
Learn to foster an ardent imagination; so shall you descry beauty which others passed unheeded. — Norman Douglas Copy Share Image
There is so much goodness in real life- do let us keep it out of our books. — Norman Douglas Copy Share Image
The business of life is to enjoy oneself; everything else is a mockery. — Norman Douglas Copy Share Image
Wine is a precarious aphrodisiac, and its fumes have blighted many a mating. — Norman Douglas Copy Share Image
Nobody can misunderstand a boy like his own mother. Mothers at present can bring children into the world, but this performance is apt to… — Norman Douglas Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the… — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
Man isn't a noble savage, he's an ignoble savage. He is irrational, brutal, weak, silly, unable to be objective about anything where his own… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
