Noble Quotes - page 3

Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones. (Charles Caleb Colton)
After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isnt it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it This is how I answer when I am askedas I am surprisingly oftenwhy I bother to get up in the mornings. View quote
Richard Dawkins
Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of the noble and the learned. View quote
Taylor Caldwell
Be noble, and the nobleness that lies in other men, sleeping but never dead, will rise in majesty to meet thine own. View quote
James Russell Lowell
There is One great society alone on earth The noble living and the noble dead. View quote
William Wordsworth
Every gift of noble origin Is breathed upon by Hope's perpetual breath. View quote
William Wordsworth
Sun-worship and pure forms of nature-worship were, in their day, noble religions, highly allegorical but full of profound truth and knowledge. View quote
Annie Besant
It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written. View quote
André Gide
The kind of relatedness to the world may be noble or trivial, but even being related to the basest kind of pattern is immensely preferable to being alone. View quote
Erich Fromm
To the noble mind Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind. View quote
William Shakespeare
To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble. (Mark Twain)
Treachery is noble when aimed at tyranny. View quote
Pierre Corneille
Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit. View quote
Walter Scott
I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence-which is a noble thing. View quote
Winston Churchill
We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world. View quote
Martin Luther
Meditation while walking has a long, noble history in ancient spiritual disciplines. View quote
Andrew Weil
Truth and mercy require the exertion - never the suppression, of man's noble rights and powers. View quote
Gerrit Smith
Wisdom, prudence, forethought, these are essential. But not second to these that noble courage which adventures the right, and leaves the consequences to God. View quote
Robert Dale Owen
People aren't either wicked or noble. They're like chef's salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict. View quote
Daniel Handler
Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love. (Delmore Schwartz)
The artificial noble shrinks into a dwarf before the noble of nature; and in the few instances (for there are some in all countries) in whom nature, as by a miracle, has survived in aristocracy, those men despise it. View quote
Thomas Paine
Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows continually through noble thought and memory. View quote
François Rabelais
Ask yourself why totalitarian dictatorships find it necessary to pour money and effort into propaganda for their own helpless, chained, gagged slaves, who have no means of protest or defense. The answer is that even the humblest peasant or the lowest savage would rise in blind rebellion, were he to realize that he is being immolated, not to some incomprehensible noble purpose, but to plain, naked human evil. View quote
Ayn Rand
The secret dread of modern intellectuals, liberals and conservatives alike, the unadmitted terror at the root of their anxiety, which all of their current irrationalities are intended to stave off and to disguise, is the unstated knowledge that Soviet Russia [was] the full, actual, literal, consistent embodiment of the morality of altruism, that Stalin did not corrupt a noble ideal, that this is the only way altruism has to be or can ever be practiced. View quote
Ayn Rand