Noblest Quotes

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

The noblest search is the search for excellence.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

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.