Noblest Quotes

And love's the noblest frailty of the mind.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.