Noble Quotes - Page 17

The world now seems a stunningly ignoble place. It has not really grown all that much worse but appears to have done so because we know so much more about it than we did.

A remorseful change of mind renders even a noble action base, whereas the determination which is grounded on knowledge and reason cannot change even if its actions fail.

To put it concisely, we suffer when we resist the noble and irrefutable truth of impermanence and death.

Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.

We can always find noble reasons for what we want to do.

There are noble books but one wants the breath of life sometimes. And I see no divine person. I myself am more divine than any I see I think that is enough to say about them.

There are noble books but one wants the breath of life sometimes.

God be thanked for the thinkers of good and noble thoughts! It wakes up all the best in ourselves, to come into close contact with others greater and better in every way than we are.

To lie is vile, to tell truth is excellent, if not noble.

Nothing fine and noble will ever perish from the earth as long as there are hearts to remember.

There is noting truly valuable which can be purchased without pains and labor. The gods have set a price upon every real and noble pleasure.

The courageous struggle for a noble cause should be considered success itself.

'Live and let life' used to be a noble approach to life. Now you're considered compassionate if you demand that government impose your preferences on others.

Whether you think a film will affect society or it's plain entertainment, it's all excellent, it's all noble.

Never underestimate the capacity of noble young men to do incredibly foolish things for perfectly good reasons.

All genuinely noble women prefer truth to falsehood. As the Russians with their Czar, they are unwilling to see their idol degraded; they want to be proud of the domination they accept.

The word of God tends to make large-minded noble-minded men.

He is noble who both feels and acts nobly.

I know nothing more noble than the contemplation of the world.

Puritanism was an honourable mood; it was a noble fad. In other words, it was a highly creditable mistake.

[The unreactivity of the noble gas elements] belongs to the surest of experimental results.

The most noble of all pursuits is to be enlightened, to know truth, to have knowledge and yet be beyond even truth and knowledge, to be God.

The noble woman is half a man, even a complete one. Only their imperfections make them women.

If a woman be herself pure and noble-hearted, she will come into every circle as a person does into a heated room, who carries with him the freshness of the woods where he has been walking.

Life is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures.