Confucius Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not any more moral than my neighbors.
Ralph Waite -
A ruler makes use of the majority and neglects the minority, and so he does not devote himself to virtue but to law.
Han Fei -
Compassion is not a popular virtue.
Karen Armstrong -
A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.
Samuel Butler -
Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
Victor Hugo
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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
Baruch Spinoza -
As far as I'm concerned I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
Albert Einstein -
The essential facts are known. We know of the weapons in Saddam's possession: chemical, biological, and nuclear in time. We know of his unequaled willingness to use them. We know his history. His invasions of his neighbors. His dreams of achieving hegemonic control over the Arab world. His record of anti-American rage. His willingness to terrorize, to slaughter, to suppress his own people and others. We need not stretch to imagine nightmare scenarios in which Saddam makes common cause with the terrorists who want to kill us Americans and destroy our way of life.
Joe Lieberman -
In the old days, if a neighbors apples fell into your yard, you worked it out over the back fence or picked them up and made pies. Today, you sue.
Lee Iacocca -
You cannot lift others to virtue on the one hand if you are entertaining vice on the other.
D. Todd Christofferson -
It is not in virtue of its liberty that the human will attains to grace, it is much rather by grace that it attains to liberty.
Saint Augustine
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The number one reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors.
Napoleon Hill -
As far as I know, there is no proof whatever of the existence of an objective reality apart from our senses, and I do not see why we should accept the outside world as such solely by virtue of our senses.
M. C. Escher -
Virtue lives when Beauty dies.
Bill Vaughan -
Now I've laid me down to die I pray my neighbors not to pry Too deeply into sins that I Not only cannot here deny But much enjoyed as life flew by.
Preston Sturges -
Chastity is the most unpopular of the Christian virtues. There is no getting away from it; the old Christian rule is, "Either marriage, with completely faithfulness to your partner, or else total abstinence."
C. S. Lewis -
I am only strong enough for a life of partial virtue.
Brian Andreas
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Our mind, by virtue of a certain finite, limited capability, is by no means capable of putting a question to Nature that permits a continuous series of answers. The observations, the individual results of measurements, are the answers of Nature to our discontinuous questioning.
Erwin Schrodinger -
A huge insight was the power of simply telling employees the truth. If things aren’t going well, tell them.
David M. Cote -
I sang in 'Waiting for Guffman,' and I sang in 'A Mighty Wind.' I can carry a tune, but I don't like that Broadway singing.
Parker Posey -
They fought on with a devotion which would puzzle the generation of the 1980s. More surprising, in many instances it would have baffled the men they themselves were before Pearl Harbor. Among MacArthur's ardent infantrymen were cooks, mechanics, pilots whose planes had been shot down, seamen whose ships had been sunk, and some civilian volunteers.
William Manchester -
Virtue is not solitary; it is bound to have neighbors.
Confucius