Best 1793 quotes in «virtue quotes» category

I'm an entertainer. I don't go round saying I'm a paragon of virtue, so that is clearly not in the public interest.

I'm not full of virtues and noble qualities. I love, but I love strongly, exclusive, stedfasty.

I'm not saying that atheists can't act morally or have moral knowledge. But when I ascribe virtue to an atheist, it's as a theist who sees the atheist as conforming to objective moral values. The atheist, by contrast, has no such basis for morality. And yet all moral judgments require a basis for morality, some standard of right and wrong.

In a state therefore of great equality and virtue, where pure and simple manners prevailed, the increase of the human species would evidently be much greater than any increase that has been hitherto known.

... in America ... children are instructed in the virtues of the system they live under, as though history had achieved a happy ending in American civics.

Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.

In many cases hate a person is rooted in the involuntary estimate of its virtues.

I never told my own religion nor scrutinized that of another. I never attempted to make a convert, nor wished to change another's creed. I am satisfied that yours must be an excellent religion to have produced a life of such exemplary virtue and correctness. For it is in our lives, and not from our words, that our religion must be judged.

I never was so rapid in my virtue but my vice kept up with me.

In regard to intellect and true virtue, every nation is on a par with the rest, and God has not in these respects chosen one people rather than another.

Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.

In proportion as a man is selfish, so far has he receded from the motive which constitutes virtue.

In science, a healthy skepticism is a professional necessity, whereas in religion, having belief without evidence is regarded as a virtue.

In my opinion, moderation is a vastly overrated virtue, particularly when applied to work

In my own case, who have spent my whole life in the practice of virtue, right conduct from habitual has become natural.

In science, obsessiveness under psychological control can be a virtue.

In short, virtue cannot live where envy reigns, nor liberality subsist with niggardliness.

In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.

In the clear mind of virtue treason can find no hiding-place.

In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless.

. . . in the final analysis, virtue is not found in extremes, but in prudence . . .

I think the virtue I prize above all others is curiosity.

In the middle of a dessert, no one talks about the virtues of the Sun!

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 my pen.

Is devotion to others a cover for the hungers and the needs of the self, of which one is ashamed? I was always ashamed to take. So I gave. It was not virtue. It was a disguise.

I see no virtue where I smell no sweat.

I should wonder what courage—which is the virtue they most value—has to do with a metal ring through your nostril.

I think we're paralyzed by the virtues of a combination of liberalism and bureaucracy. And Trump doesn't know any of that. All he knows, and he's like every other citizen, fed up with it.

In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa.

In the winter, warmth stands for all virtue.

In your judgment virtue requires no reward, and is to be sought for itself, unaccompanied by external benefits. [Lat., Judice te mercede caret, per seque petenda est Externis virtus incomitata bonis.]

"I pay my taxes," says somebody, as if that were an act of virtue instead of one of compulsion.

I say that virtue is really all about enjoying yourself, living fully; but of course it is far from obvious what living fully actually means.

Is not virtue a negation of becoming?

I take it that computational processes are both symbolic and formal. They are symbolic because they are defined over representations, and they are formal because they apply to representations, in virtue of (roughly) the syntax of the representations.

I think no virtue goes with size.

It ill becomes any of us to take the attitude that all evidence for God is false evidence, beneath consideration, simply by virtue of its being evidence for God, or even by virtue of its being outside the purview of science.

It is a duty we owe to posterity to see that our children shall know the virtues, and rise worthy of their sires.

It is a great deal easier for a man to find a pedigree to fit his virtues than virtues to fit his pedigree.

It is a fault, not a virtue, to wish your humility recognized and applauded.

It is a virtue and a prize to listen patiently to and put up with insults for the sake of God

It is a distinction to have many virtues, but a hard lot.

It is all a mistake that we cannot be good and manly without being scrupulously and studiously good. There is too much mechanism about our virtue.

It is a natural virtue incident to our sex to be pitiful of those that are afflicted.

It is easy to be virtuous in prospective.

It is easier to enrich ourselves with a thousand virtues, than to correct ourselves of a single fault.

It is held that valor is the chiefest virtue, and most dignifies the haver.

It is necessary to make virtue fashionable.

It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.

It is not a sin to be happy, it is not a virtue to be miserable.