Quotes of: Noblest Keyword

Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty; but learn to be happy alone.

Ravelstein

Anything is forgiven those who sin elegantly; while gaucheness sours even the noblest deed.

The Last Banquet

To conquer oneself is the best and noblest victory; to be vanquished by one's own nature is the worst and most ignoble defeat.

Plato

that the grace of fable stirs the mind"...and..."that the perusal of excellent books is, as it were, to interview with the noblest men of past ages

Rene Descartes

If an honest man is the noblest work of God, then Mr. Lincoln's title to high nobility is clear and unquestioned.

Matthew Simpson

If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence, his noblest function is the search for truth.

Morris West

Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are.

Louisa May Alcott

I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.

Mahatma Gandhi

The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices.

Frederick the Great

That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

The only thing that interests me in music is to be able to reach into the, let's call it, 'collective unconscious' of what is noblest in the human spirit, the way you find in the music of Mozart and Beethoven and Verdi that wonderful quality that not...

Gian Carlo Menotti

We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives, Who thinks most, feels noblest, acts the best.

Festus: A Poem

Laughter and prayer are the two noblest habits of man; they mark us off from the brutes.

The Haunted Bookshop

What she craved and really felt herself entitled to was a situation in which the noblest attitude should also be the easiest.

The House of Mirth

Faith is the choice of the nobler hypothesis.' Not the noblest, one never knows what that is. But the nobler, the best one can see when the choice is made.

Servant As Leader

I maintain that the cosmic religious feeling is the strongest and noblest motive for scientific research.

The World As I See It

Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

Napoleon Hill

We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.

Philip James Bailey

The heart was always seen as the noblest of the internal organs as well as the most vital. The hearts of martyrs or future candidates for sainthood would be preserved, but never their livers, say, or the entrails - at least not on their own; it was e...

George Fetherling

The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this world is to discover new truths; and the next is to shake off old prejudices.

Frederick the Great

A real friend is one who helps us to think our best thoughts, do our noblest deeds, and be our finest selves.

Elizabeth George