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Tag Name "Noblest" (236)

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Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.
Miguel de Unamuno
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Thus ended the great American Civil War, which must upon the whole be considered the noblest and least avoidable of all the great mass conflicts of which till then there was record.
Winston Churchill
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The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.
Plato
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We do not want nowadays temples of worship and outward rites and ceremonies. What we really want is an Asram. We want a place where the beauty of nature and the noblest pursuits of man are in a sweet harmony.
Rabindranath Tagore
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It is a sad thing to begin life with low conceptions of it. It may not be possible for a young man to measure life but it is possible to say, I am resolved to put life to its noblest and best use.
Thornton T. Munger
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For the rest, whatever we have got has been by infinite labor, and search, and ranging through every corner of nature the difference is that instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax, thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.
Jonathan Swift
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The Charter of the United Nations expresses the noblest aspirations of man.
Haile Selassie
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Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest of all the arts.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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The noblest kind of retribution is not to become like your enemy.
Marcus Aurelius
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The noblest works of human art and pride show that their makers were not satisfied.
Henry Abbey
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We have no right to pick out all that is noblest and fairest in man, to project these qualities into space, and to call them God. We only thus create an ideal figure, a purified, ennobled, 'magnified' Man.
Annie Besant
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You may have the loftiest goals, the highest ideals, the noblest dreams, but remember this nothing works unless you do.
Nido R Qubein
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An honest God is the noblest work of man.
Robert Green Ingersoll
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You are the noblest, purest creature I've ever met. The universe will be a darker place without you, he whispered.
Stephenie Meyer
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Faith in friendship is the noblest part.
Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery
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To yield reverence to another, to hold ourselves and our lives at his disposal, is not slavery often, it is the noblest state in which a man can live in this world.
John Ruskin
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The Charter of the United Nations expresses the noblest aspirations of man: abjuration of force in the settlement of disputes between states the assurance of human rights and fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language or religion the safeguarding of international peace and security.
Haile Selassie
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However much I may sympathise with and admire worthy motives, I am an uncompromising opponent of violent methods even to serve the noblest of causes.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The New Testament is remarkable for its pure morality the best of the Hindoo Scripture, for its pure intellectuality. The readeris nowhere raised into and sustained in a higher, purer, or rarer region of thought than in the Bhagvat-Geeta.... It is unquestionably one of the noblest and most sacred scriptures which have come down to us.
Henry David Thoreau
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No science is speedily learned by the noblest genius without tuition.
Isaac Watts
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The noblest are they who turning from the things the vulgar crave, seek the source of a blessed life in worlds to which the senses do not lead.
John Lancaster Spalding
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The Bible holds up before us ideals that are within sight of the weakest and the lowliest, and yet so high that the best and the noblest are kept with their faces turned ever upward. It carries the call of the Saviour to the remotest corners of the earth on its pages are written the assurances of the present and our hopes for the future
William Jennings Bryan
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When will the public cease to insult the teacher's calling with empty flattery? When will men who would never for a moment encourage their own sons to enter the work of the public schools cease to tell us that education is the greatest and noblest of all human callings?
William Bagley
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Noblest minds are easiest bent.
Homer
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