Virtue Quotes

To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.

Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth.

I'm really tired of virtue.

I'd like to know what law is it that says that a woman is a better parent, simply by virtue of her sex.

Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.

Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.

Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.

Artists instinctively want to reflect humanity, their own and each other's, in all its intermittent virtue and vitality, frailty and fallibility.

We speak of virtue, honour, reason; but our thought does not translate any one of these concepts into a substance.

If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom.

Good art however "immoral" is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.

Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.

Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning.

The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.

Psychologically experienced consciousness is therefore no longer pure consciousness; construed Objectively in this way, consciousness itself becomes something transcendent, becomes an event in that spatial world which appears, by virtue of consciousness, to be transcendent.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

When we think of the ideal, we do not add virtue to virtue, but think of Jesus Christ, so that the standard of human life is no longer a code, but a character.

As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.

In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.

Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.

There are men whom a happy disposition, a strong desire of glory and esteem, inspire with the same love for justice and virtue which men in general have for riches and honors... But the number of these men is so small that I only mention them in honor of humanity.

In England the only homage which they pay to Virtue - is hypocrisy.

In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.

Confidentiality is a virtue of the loyal, as loyalty is the virtue of faithfulness.

To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind - this is a choice which is possible for all of us; and surely it is a good haven to sail for.

Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

They act as if they supposed that to be very sanguine about the general improvement of mankind is a virtue that relieves them from taking trouble about any improvement in particular.

Women's virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness for their reputation.

In a state therefore of great equality and virtue, where pure and simple manners prevailed, the increase of the human species would evidently be much greater than any increase that has been hitherto known.