Noble Quotes
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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.
Ursula K. Le Guin -
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.
Oscar Wilde
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In the name of noble purposes men have committed unspeakable acts of cruelty against one another.
J. William Fulbright -
Only the noble of heart are called to difficulty.
Soren Kierkegaard -
Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great.
Carlo Goldoni -
It takes a noble man to plant a seed for a tree that will someday give shade to people he may never meet.
D. Elton Trueblood -
Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.
Moliere -
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.
Steve Jobs
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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.
Isaac D'Israeli -
Government is never so noble as when it is addressing wrongs.
William Weld -
It is finer to bring one noble human being into the world and rear it well... than to kill ten thousand.
Olive Schreiner -
To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
Noble man remembers nothing good he did for others.
Ali-Shir Nava'i -
Where pity is, for pity makes the world Soft to the weak and noble for the strong.
Edwin Arnold
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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.
Plato -
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.
Friedrich Schiller -
The noble person uses things; the lesser man is used by things.
Xunzi -
Remember that all worlds draw to an end and that noble death is a treasure which no one is too poor to buy.
C. S. Lewis -
Without the high and noble the simple and vulgar is utterly mean; and without the simple and ordinary the noble and heroic is meaningless.
J. R. R. Tolkien -
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.
Aristotle
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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.
Aristotle -
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.
Aristotle -
Noble have I created thee, yet thou hast abased thyself. Rise then unto that for which thou wast created.
Bahá'u'lláh -
Our minds are finite and far from noble. Knowing their limits can help us to become better reasoners.
Gary Marcus