Quotes About Virtue

Humility is of central importance; I think it's an underappreciated virtue in the contemporary discussion of law and politics.

To equate IQ with human virtue or wisdom or character or a whole variety of other of the most important measures of a value of a person is ridiculous.

Kindness is more than a virtue. It is a source of strength.

A hero usually rises above the ordinary because he or she exemplifies some virtue that everyone can recognize.

If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.

Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.

Let them call it mischief: When it is past and prospered t'will be virtue.

Feminine virtue is nothing but a convenient masculine invention.

I shall produce nothing that will offend the proprieties, whether applied to children or grownups. My pictures are turned out with clean hands and, therefore, with a clear conscience which, like virtue, is its own reward.

Cheerfulness is a very great help in fostering the virtue of charity. Cheerfulness itself is a virtue.

To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.

Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.

Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.

Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.

It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.

My hope is that people begin to understand what the fiscal realities are - how economic virtue differs from political virtue - and develop a realization of their individual economic philosophy in comparison to their perceived political ideology.

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

When we think of the ideal, we do not add virtue to virtue, but think of Jesus Christ, so that the standard of human life is no longer a code, but a character.

Many people think that virtue consists of severity towards others.

Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.

The mark of a mature, psychologically healthy mind is indeed the ability to live with uncertainty and ambiguity, but only as much as there really is. Uncertainty is no virtue when the facts are clear, and ambiguity is mere obfuscation when more precise terms are applicable.

Quietness is the beginning of virtue. To be silent is to be beautiful. Stars do not make a noise.

A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.

I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.