Noble Quotes - Page 18

There are only two noble pursuits in life: knowledge and love.

Sun-worship and pure forms of nature-worship were, in their day, noble religions, highly allegorical but full of profound truth and knowledge.

Sometimes, I go to Barnes & Noble with the sole intention of moving all copies of the bible to the fiction section.

I play for high stakes and given an audience - there is no act too daring or too noble.

Remember that a noble logical diagram, once recorded, will never die; long after we are gone, it will be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistency.

There is One great society alone on earth: The noble living and the noble dead.

Every gift of noble origin Is breathed upon by Hope's perpetual breath.

In right and service to their noble country.

Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted colour off ... Do not for ever with thy vailed lids Seek for thy noble father in the dust.

For a noble heart, the most precious gift becomes poor, when the giver stops loving.

It is meant that noble minds keep ever with their likes; for who so firm that cannot be seduced.

Think'st thou it honourable for a noble man Still to remember wrongs?

A noble shalt thou have, and present pay; And liquor likewise will I give to thee, And friendship shall combine, and brotherhood.

I hold it cowardice To rest mistrustful where a noble heart Hath pawned an open hand in sign of love.

A beggar's book outworths a noble's blood.

All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene

If a great man struggling with misfortunes is a noble object, a little man that despises them is no contemptible one.

If [the writer] achieves anything noble, anything enduring, it must be by giving himself absolutely to his material. And this gift of sympathy is his great gift; is the fine thing in him that alone can make his work fine.

Love is the supreme good; it is the overflowing life, the giving of ourselves to noble ends and causes.

Reaching into one's own pocket to assist his fellow man is noble and worthy of praise. Reaching into another person's pocket to assist one's fellow man is despicable and worthy of condemnation.

What has miserable, inefficient Mexico...to do with the great mission of peopling the New World with a noble race?

Reality is rarely what we imagine. Great and noble things do not always happen for great and noble reasons.

It's very easy for Australians living in big cities to either romanticise or demonise the situation in Aboriginal places - to kind of look at things through the 'noble innocents' prism or through the 'chronically dysfunctional' prism, and I suspect that is so often the case.

Ere man's corruptions made him wretched, he Was born most noble that was born most free; Each of himself was lord; and unconfin'd Obey'd the dictates of his godlike mind.

The important thing is not the planning of an Index Verborum Prohibitorum of current noble nouns, but rather the examination of their linguistic function.