Ennobling Quotes

Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'

In itself and in its consequences the life of leisure is beautiful and ennobling in all civilised men's eyes.

Science as an intellectual exercise enriches our culture, and is in itself ennobling.

It's often difficult for us to act compassionately, but sacred art eases the difficulty by ennobling us.

Suffering isn't ennobling, recovery is.

Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind.

The cultivation of trees is the cultivation of the good, the beautiful, and the ennobling in man, and for one, I wish to see it become universal.