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By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
An honest man's the noblest work of God.
An honest God is the noblest work of man.
And wit's the noblest frailty of the mind.
And love's the noblest frailty of the mind.
The noblest search is the search for excellence.
The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
This sight... is by far the noblest astronomy affords.
Character is property. It is the noblest of possessions.
That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.
All wars, even the noblest, bring a reckoning of means and ends.
The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.
The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.
For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.
Clemency is the noblest trait which can reveal a true monarch to the world.
Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.
The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum.
America's support for human rights and democracy is our noblest export to the world.
Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.
Cancer Boy probably has the saddest, noblest, sweetest heart of any character I've ever done.
At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.
Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.
I feel Karna is the noblest character in the 'Mahabharat,' and Duryodhan is reason for the war between cousins.
Kindness is the essence of greatness and the fundamental characteristic of the noblest men and women I have known.
Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are.
That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.
If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence, his noblest function is the search for truth.
Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives.
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.
I was born and grew up in the greatest, the noblest achievement of the human race on this planet - which was called the United States of America.
There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.
Politics always fascinated me. In my 20s, I was involved in politics and, as I look in the mirror, not for the noblest of purposes. It was for sport.
There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.
Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.
I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.
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.
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.
The cathedral, at its noblest, is the best outward symbol of the spiritual nature of man, as it is also the most suggestive measure and prophecy of the corporate life of man.
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.
Science began as one of the noblest expressions of man's reason. It will continue to serve humanity so long as it never forgets that human beings remain the heart of its purpose.
Acting is not the noblest profession in the world, but there are things lower than acting. Not many, mind you - but politicians give you something to look down on from time to time.
You may count on Mexico's support, since your commitment to the noblest causes of mankind and your vast experience are and will be invaluable in enabling us, together, to achieve a better world.
We have no right to pick out all that is noblest and fairest in man, to project these qualities into space, and to call them God. We only thus create an ideal figure, a purified, ennobled, 'magnified' Man.
Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men; poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans and artists, poor philosophers, poets, and men of genius.
Give us that grand word 'woman' once again, and let's have done with 'lady'; one's a term full of fine force, strong, beautiful, and firm, fit for the noblest use of tongue or pen; and one's a word for lackeys.
You perhaps know me as a novelist. Literature is one of the arts - in fact, the noblest of the arts. That is not my opinion; it was first expressed by the ancients. As art, literature has many similarities with the other art forms.
There is no such thing as disappointment for those who continue to cherish the selflessness of which is born the noblest inner self. There is no such thing as failure for those who invest in the potentialities of the Ideal of the Soul.
