Noble Quotes
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Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks; methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam.
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Major religions are examples of 'noble lies' aimed at uplifting human stature.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Noble man remembers nothing good he did for others.
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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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Where pity is, for pity makes the world Soft to the weak and noble for the strong.
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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 noble person uses things; the lesser man is used by things.
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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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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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To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.
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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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There are three things that are the motives of choice and three that are the motives of avoidance; namely, the noble, the expedient, and the pleasant, and their opposites, the base, the harmful, and the painful. Now in respect of all these the good man is likely to go right and the bad to go wrong, but especially in respect of pleasure; for pleasure is common to man with the lower animals, and also it is a concomitant of all the objects of choice, since both the noble and the expedient appear to us pleasant.
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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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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.
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Being a mother is a noble status, right? Right. So why does it change when you put 'unwed' or 'welfare' in front of it?
