Quotes About Noblest

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

He recognized with absolute certainty the empty fragility of even the noblest theorizings as compared with the definitive plenitude of the smallest fact grasped in its total, concrete reality.

The Walls enriched with Fruit-trees and faced with a covering of their leafy extensions; I should rather have said hung with different pieces of Nature's noblest Tapestry.

The end of Man is an Action, and not a Thought, though it were the noblest?

If the fairest features of the landscape are to be named after men, let them be the noblest and worthiest men alone.

We hail science as man's truest friend and noblest helper.

Tis on the living Envy feeds. She silent grows When, after death, man's honor is his guard. So I, when on the pyre consumed I lie, Shall live, for all that's noblest will survive.

Nature, in giving tears to man, confessed that he Had a tender heart; this is our noblest quality.

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.

There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.

It would seem that on hearing Abélard's lecture, Anselm of Laon became "wildly jealous," circumstances that Abélard assigned to every conceivable cause except the one that he had set in motion. "Since the beginning of the human race," Abélard observed with some asperity in his autobiography, Historia Calamitatum (A History of My Misfortunes), women have "brought the noblest men to ruin.

I ought to spend the best hours of the day in communion with God. It is my noblest and most fruitful employment, and is not to be thrust into any corner.

The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies 'God in us.'

Happiness is at once the best, the noblest, and the pleasantest of things.

Jesus Christ is, in the noblest and most perfect sense, the realized ideal of humanity.

A wit's a feather, and a chief a rod;An honest man's the noblest work of God.

The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum.

My point is that love is the most powerful motivator in the world. It spurs mortals to greatness. Their noblest, bravest acts are done for love.

Lovely sweetness is the noblest power of woman, and is far fitter to prevail by parley than by battle.

We have every opportunity and every encouragement before us, to form the noblest truest constitution on the face of the earth. We have it in our power to begin the world over again.

This was the noblest Roman of them all.

Self-respect is the noblest garment with which a man can clothe himself, the most elevating feeling with which the mind can be inspired.

I had always looked upon the search for the absolute as the noblest and most worth while task of science.

This war would never have been possible without the sinister influence of the Jesuits. We owe it to Popery that we now see our land reddened with the blood of her noblest sons.