Noblest Quotes

Cancer Boy probably has the saddest, noblest, sweetest heart of any character I've ever done.

Clemency is the noblest trait which can reveal a true monarch to the world.

The noblest search is the search for excellence.

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

And love's the noblest frailty of the mind.

The noblest exercise of the mind within doors, and most befitting a person of quality, is study.

Just what future the Designer of the universe has provided for the souls of men I do not know, I cannot prove. But I find that the whole order of Nature confirms my confidence that, if it is not like our noblest hopes and dreams, it will transcend them.

The progress of the American Revolution has been so rapid and such the alteration of manners, the blending of characters, and the new train of ideas that almost universally prevail, that the principles which animated to the noblest exertions have been nearly annihilated.

There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.

Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge.

The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.

Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of consistency of enduring hatred.

That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.

Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

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

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

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.

Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.

This sight... is by far the noblest astronomy affords.

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.

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

I happen to think that American politics is one of the noblest arts of mankind; and I cannot do anything else but write about it.

An honest man's the noblest work of God.

America is an idea. And it's the solemn responsibility of each 'temporary' president to protect and nurture that noblest of all ideas - with integrity. This man, Mitt Romney, has shown - not through his experience, but through his actions and words - that he is unqualified to carry out that responsibility.

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.

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

And wit's the noblest frailty of the mind.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.

The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.