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“The general goodness, which is nourished in noble hearts makes every one think that strength of virtue to be in another whereof they find assured foundation in themselves.”

Thinking Heart Virtue Goodness Foundation Noble Assured Credulity

Book:Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks

Source: Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks

“People who don't like cats always seem to think there is some peculiar virtue in not liking them.”

People Thinking Seems Virtue Cat Peculiar

Author:Lucy Maud Montgomery

“We think that we are generous because we credit our neighbor with those virtues that are likely to benefit ourselves. We praise the banker that we may overdraw our account, and find good qualities in the highwayman in the hope that he may spare our pockets.”

Thinking May Quality Virtue Benefits Accounts Praise Credit Neighbor Generous Pockets Spares Bankers Good Quality Highwaymen

Book:The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts

Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts

“...if use is not an appropriate criterion for decision making in the academic life, what is? Love. ...The virtues of love as a criterion for choosing a college major...it is not pretentious. "Use" is pretentious because it claims to know something about the future that it doesn't really know. Love is immediate... [love] guarantees that you will work to your highest potential...it is part of who you are, and not just something you think, often wrongly, that you can use.”

“Why should all virtue work in one and the same way? Why should all give dollars? It is very inconvenient to us country folk, and we do not think any good will come of it. We have not dollars; merchants have; let them give them. Farmers will give corn; poets will sing; women will sew; laborers will lend a hand; the children will bring flowers.”

Source: The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Is it not manifest that our academic institutions should have a wider scope; that they should not be timid and keep the ruts of the last generation, but that wise men thinking for themselves and heartily seeking the good of mankind, and counting the cost of innovation, should dare to arouse the young to a just and heroic life; that the moral nature should be addressed in the school-room, and children should be treated as the high-born candidates of truth and virtue?”

Source: The Selected Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It is easy enough to say, Be true to your values. But what if your values are irrational? Or what if the virtues you have committed yourself to are so much against human nature that they cannot be practiced consistently? Be careful of what you accept as your code of morality. Think carefully about whether its tenets serve your life and well being. Exercise critical judgment. Realize how much is at stake-your life, your happiness, your self-esteem.”

“The Bible places supreme value in the thought life. "As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he," Solomon wrote. Jesus asserted that sin's gravity lay in the idea itself, not just the act. "Paul admonished the church at Philippi to have the mind of Christ, and to the same people he wrote, "Whatever is true ... pure ... if there be any virtue ... think on these things." Thus, the follower of Christ must demonstrate to the world what it is not just to think, but to think justly.”

People Ifs Thinking Men World Mind Heart Ideas Values Jesus Christ Church Sin Virtue Pure Lays Supreme Followers Gravity Thoughts On Life Solomon A Man Thinketh

Author:Ravi Zacharias

“To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.”

Thinking Wish Virtue Mankind Highest Ill Humankind

Book:Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].

Source: Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].

“I don't think modesty is a very good virtue, if it is a virtue at all. A modest person will drop the modesty in a minute. It's a learned affectation.”

Ifs Thinking Persons Virtue Minutes Very Good Modesty Modest

Author:Maya Angelou

“Intelligence is a separate gift, for the benefit of students, so that they may think of themselves as intellectual and not very intelligent, or intelligent and not very intellectual. One hopes, of course, that they try to bring the two virtues, the two elements, into their lives at the same time.”

Thinking Trying May Two Courses Virtue Students Elements Benefits Intellectual Intelligent

Author:Maya Angelou

“The more I think of a people calmly developing, in regions excluded from our sight and deemed uninhabitable by our sages, powers surpassing our most disciplined modes of force, and virtues to which our life, social and political, becomes antagonistic in proportion as our civilisation advances - the more devoutly I pray that ages may yet elapse before there emerge into sunlight our inevitable destroyers.”

“O! lost to virtue, lost to manly thought, Lost to the noble sallies of the soul! Who think it solitude to be alone.”

Thinking Soul Lost Virtue Solitude Noble Manly

Book:Extracts from Young's Night thoughts, with observations upon them

Source: Extracts from Young's Night thoughts, with observations upon them

“All the entertainment and talk of history is nothing almost but fighting and killing: and the honour and renown that is bestowed on conquerors (who for the most part are but the great butchers of mankind) farther mislead growing youth, who by this means come to think slaughter the laudable business of mankind, and the most heroic of virtues.”

Thinking Mean War Fighting Virtue Growing Mankind Youth Killing Entertainment Honour Heroic Mislead Slaughter Conqueror Butchers Renown

Book:Some Thoughts concerning Education ... The eleventh edition

Source: Some Thoughts concerning Education ... The eleventh edition

“How much education may reconcile young people to pain and sufference, the examples of Sparta do sufficiently shew; and they who have once brought themselves not to think bodily pain the greatest of evils, or that which they ought to stand most in fear of, have made no small advance toward virtue.”

People Thinking May Made Pain Young Evil Virtue Example Ought Reconcile Sparta Bodily Pain

Book:The works of John Locke ...

Source: The works of John Locke ...

“Wonder of wonders! Intrinsically all living beings are Buddhas, endowed with wisdom and virtue, but because men's minds have become inverted through delusive thinking they fail to perceive this.”

Thinking Men Mind Wonder Virtue Failing Perceive Inverted

Author:Gautama Buddha

“The superior man... does not set his mind either for or against anything, he will pursue whatever is right. The superior man thinks of virtue, the common man of comfort.”

Thinking Men Mind Doe Common Virtue Comfort Superiors Pursue Common Man Superior Man

Author:Confucius

“Praying that does not result in right thinking and right living is a farce. We have missed the whole office of prayer if it fails to purge our character and correct conduct. We have failed entirely to understand the virtue of prayer, if it does not bring about the revolutionizing of life. In the very nature of tings, we must either quit praying or quit our bad conduct.”

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Author:Edward McKendree Bounds

“What I can't completely understand is most other people's fascination with what the famous among us do with their lips and the rest of their bodies. Why do ordinary people become the target of this curiosity simply by virtue of the fact that other people recognize their names and faces but know nothing else about them? Why do we care what they think, what they wear, what they eat?”

People Thinking Knows I Can Facts Body Care Faces Names Virtue Ordinary Curiosity Lips Target Ordinary People Fascination

Author:Alan Alda

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