Virtue Quotes

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.

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.

The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue.

Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue.

Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.

The sciences have ever been the surest guides to virtue.

The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.

The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near impotent.

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.

Saudi Arabia is a puritanical state that claims a monopoly of wisdom and virtue.

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.

Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.

Silence is the virtue of fools.

Everybody's part of the greater whole and skepticism and virtue are a part of that.

All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.

Conscience is the sentinel of virtue.