Best 491 quotes in «noble quotes» category

Countless as the sands of sea are human passions, and not all of them are alike, and all of them, base and noble alike, are at first obedient to man and only later on become his terrible masters.

Culture is on the horns of this dilemma: if profound and noble it must remain rare, if common it must become mean.

Death and life, success and failure, pain and pleasure, wealth and poverty, all these happen to good and bad alike, and they are neither noble nor shameful - and hence neither good nor bad.

Descartes constructed as noble a road of science, from the point at which he found geometry to that to which he carried it, as Newton himself did after him. ... He carried this spirit of geometry and invention into optics, which under him became a completely new art.

Do ask yourself why you, the individual, exist, and if you can get no other answer try for once to justify the meaning of your existence as it were a posteriori by setting before yourself an aim, a goal, a 'to this end', an exalted and noble 'to this end'.

Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul.

Education is such a noble profession, its a wonderful way to serve.

Do nothing because it is righteous or praiseworthy or noble to do so; do nothing because it seems good to do so; do only that which you must do and which you cannot do in any other way.

Draw Dyrnwyn, only thou of noble worth, to rule with justice, to strike down evil. Who wields it in good cause shall slay even the Lord of Death.

Ego is vital but not noble.

Emulation is a noble and just passion, full of appreciation.

Every noble crown is, and on Earth will forever be, a crown of thorns.

Ere man's corruptions made him wretched, he Was born most noble that was born most free; Each of himself was lord; and unconfin'd Obey'd the dictates of his godlike mind.

Every noble action is selfish. Some selfish actions are nobler than others. But they are all selfish. And as such there can be no action purely noble anyway. Even the nobility in God's great philosophical intentions is bounded by his vanity.

Every noble deed dieth, if suppressed in silence.

Every noble life becomes a revelation of the spirit which the love and joy of mankind cannot let perish from remembrance.

Eroticism is first and foremost a thirst for otherness. And the supernatural is the supreme otherness. This is perhaps the most noble aim of poetry, to attach ourselves to the world around us, to turn desire into love, to embrace, finally what always evades us, what is beyond, but what is always there – the unspoken, the spirit, the soul.

Even when our intentions are noble and our efforts sincere, even when we dedicate our lives to the service of others, the corrosive pressure of frantic over-activity can nonetheless cause suffering in ourselves and others. A "successful" life can become a violent enterprise.

Every noble activity makes room for itself.

Every rebel is, with us, more or less a soldier who has missed his vocation, a being made for a heroic life ... The European race is a race of masters and soldiers. If you reduce this noble race to the work in a slave's prison like Negroes or Chinamen, it will rebel.

Every noble life leaves the fibre of it interwoven forever in the work of the world.

Fight for the only thing she knew was good enough, noble enough, powerful enough to be worth risking everything... Love.

Expect neither reward nor beatitude. Return noble waves for ignoble.

For all the civilians saved thanks to the presence of peacekeepers, there have been those who were lost - the United Nations personnel who sacrificed their lives for a noble cause. Even as we mourn our fallen colleagues, we are all uplifted by their unflinching commitment and are inspired to strive even harder for the collective cause so eloquently envisaged in the United Nations Charter: a world free from the scourge of war.

Following the Noble Path is like entering a dark room with a light in the hand; the darkness will all be cleared away, and the room will be filled with light.

For a noble heart, the most precious gift becomes poor, when the giver stops loving.

Fine words are traded. Noble deeds gain respect. But people who are not good, why abandon them?

For a people is only as great, as free, as lofty, as advanced as its women are free, noble and progressive.

Ford's last Fifth Queen novel is amazing. The whole cycle is a noble conception.

For I had rather die in the adventure ot noble achievements, then live in obscure and sluggish security.

For kindness begets kindness evermore, But he from whose mind fades the memory Of benefits, noble is he no more.

For this is love's truth; she joins two in one being, makes sweet sour, strangers neighbors, and the lowly noble.

For the chemists, who wanted to manufacture new medicines and elixirs and transform base substances into noble ones, the notion that there was no metaphysical barrier to doing so - it was just a matter of getting the particles into new arrangements - was encouraging. That was the Baconian programme.

For to be discontented with the divine discontent, and to be ashamed with the noble shame, is the very germ and first upgrowth of all virtue.

For words divide and rend But silence is most noble till the end.

Freedom is unlikely to be lost all at once and openly. It is far more likely to be eroded away, bit by bit, amid glittering promises and expressions of noble ideals.

From Day One, I've told [my troops] that killing is not wrong if it's for a purpose, if it's to keep your nation free or protect your buddy, one of the most noble things you can do is kill the enemy.

Friendship involves many things but, above all the power of going outside oneself and appreciating what is noble and loving in another.

Friendship's a noble name, 'tis love refined.

Globalism began as a vision of a world with free trade, shared prosperity, and open borders. These are good, even noble things to aim for.

GENEROUS, adj. Originally this word meant noble by birth and was rightly applied to a great multitude of persons. It now means noble by nature and is taking a bit of a rest.

God took pattern after a pine tree and built you noble.

God be thanked for the thinkers of good and noble thoughts! It wakes up all the best in ourselves, to come into close contact with others greater and better in every way than we are.

Grief doesn't necessarily make you noble. Sometimes it just makes you crazy, or primitive with fear.

"Gospel preachers nowadays preach the gospel of the Crucifixion, the Apostles preached the gospel of the Resurrection as well. The Crucifixion loses its meaning without the Resurrection. Without the Resurrection the death of Christ was only the heroic death of a noble martyr; with the Resurrection it is the atoning death the Son of God. It shows that death to be of sufficient value to cover our sins, for it was the sacrifice of the Son of God.

Happiness, in the ancient, noble sense, means self-fulfillment—and is given to those who use to the fullest whatever talents God … bestowed upon them.

Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, - an open and noble temper.

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

hearts are the strongest when they beat in response to noble ideals.

Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants.