Noble Quotes - page 2

Do there exist many worlds, or is there but a single world? This is one of the most noble and exalted questions in the study of Nature. (Albertus Magnus)
The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement - but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims. View quote
Joseph Conrad
About the twenty-third year of my age, I had many fresh and heavenly openings, in respect to the care and providence of the Almighty over his creatures in general, and over man as the most noble amongst those which are visible. View quote
John Woolman
Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression. View quote
Dodie Smith
Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization. View quote
Harriet Beecher Stowe
All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene. View quote
William Ellery Channing
I came into the world a Jew, and although I did not live my life entirely as a Jew, I think it is fitting that I should leave as a Jew. I don't want to turn my back on a great and noble heritage. View quote
Felix Frankfurter
A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
Every noble crown is, and on earth will forever be, a crown of thorns. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
And in the wreck of noble lives Something immortal still survives. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
A Lady with a Lamp shall stand In the great history of the land. A noble type of good, Heroic womanhood. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones. View quote
Edmund Burke
He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls. View quote
Edmund Burke
GENEROUS, adj. Originally this word meant noble by birth and was rightly applied to a great multitude of persons. It now means noble by nature and is taking a bit of a rest. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise. View quote
Tacitus
Culture is on the horns of this dilemma if profound and noble it must remain rare, if common it must become mean. View quote
George Santayana
Not a day passes over the earth, but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words and suffer noble sorrows. View quote
Charles Reade
The grand style arises in poetry, when a noble nature, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject. View quote
Matthew Arnold
Heroes are those who can somehow resist the power of the situation and act out of noble motives, or behave in ways that do not demean others when they easily can. (Philip Zimbardo)
Again I entered my smithy to work and forge something from the noble material of time past. View quote
Jean Froissart
They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts. View quote
Philip Sidney
To be discontented with the divine discontent, and to be ashamed with the noble shame, is the very germ of the first upgrowth of all virtue. View quote
Charles Kingsley
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble. View quote
Helen Keller