Noble Quotes
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Major religions are examples of 'noble lies' aimed at uplifting human stature.
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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.
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In judging of a beautiful statue, the aesthetic faculty is absolutely and completely gratified by the splendid curves of those marble lips that are dumb to our complaint, the noble modelling of those limbs that are powerless to help us.
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In the name of noble purposes men have committed unspeakable acts of cruelty against one another.
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Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.
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Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great.
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Government is never so noble as when it is addressing wrongs.
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It takes a noble man to plant a seed for a tree that will someday give shade to people he may never meet.
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It is finer to bring one noble human being into the world and rear it well... than to kill ten thousand.
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I'm an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are really smart. I have a very optimistic view of individuals.
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The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of the author.
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To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.
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Where pity is, for pity makes the world Soft to the weak and noble for the strong.
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Without the high and noble the simple and vulgar is utterly mean; and without the simple and ordinary the noble and heroic is meaningless.
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The noble person uses things; the lesser man is used by things.
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Noble man remembers nothing good he did for others.
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When their adventures do not succeed, however, they run away; but it was the mark of a brave man to face things that are, and seem, terrible for a man, because it is noble to do so and disgraceful not to do so.
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It is not noble to return evil for evil, at no time ought we to do an injury to our neighbors.
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The form of government is a democracy when the free, who are also poor and the majority, govern, and an oligarchy when the rich and the noble govern, they being at the same time few in number.
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As noble Art has survived noble nature, so too she marches ahead of it, fashioning and awakening by her inspiration. Before Truth sends her triumphant light into the depths of the heart, imagination catches its rays, and the peaks of humanity will be glowing when humid night still lingers in the valleys.
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Remember that all worlds draw to an end and that noble death is a treasure which no one is too poor to buy.
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Noble have I created thee, yet thou hast abased thyself. Rise then unto that for which thou wast created.
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There is something noble in hearing myself ill spoken of, when I am doing well.
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But for those that are equal to have an unequal share and those that are alike an unlike share is contrary to nature, and nothing contrary to nature is noble.
