Best wisdom & virtue Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Book:Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study

Source: Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study

“We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.”

Men Needs Done Wisdom Work Quality Courage Virtue Iron Rough Resolution Manhood Shrinking True Man Indomitable Indomitable Will

Book:The Works of Theodore Roosevelt: The strenuous life

Source: The Works of Theodore Roosevelt: The strenuous life

“Don't look for flaws as you go through life and even when you find them it is wise and kind to be somewhat blind, and look for the virtue behind them.”

Looks Kind Wisdom Behinds Virtue Wise Blind Flaws

Book:Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)

Source: Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)

“For knowledge to become wisdom, and for the soul to grow, the soul must be rooted in God: and it is through prayer that there comes to us that which is the strength of our strength, and the virtue of our virtue, the Holy Spirit.”

Soul Wisdom Spirit Grows Prayer Virtue Holy Holy Spirit Rooted

Book:Euthanasy, Or Happy Talk Towards the End of Life

Source: Euthanasy, Or Happy Talk Towards the End of Life

“Antiphon, as another man gets pleasure from a good horse, or a dog, or a bird, I get even more pleasure from good friends. And if I have something good, I teach it to them, and I introduce them to others who will be useful to them with respect to virtue. And together with my friends I go through the treasures of wise men of old which they left behind written in books, and we peruse them. If we see something good, we pick it out and hold it to be a great profit, if we are able to prove useful to one another.”

Ifs Men Book Wisdom Able Together Left Pleasure Behinds Teach Virtue Wise Written Dog Prove Bird Picks My Friends Horse Profit Treasure Introducing Good Friend Left Behind Another Man Good Horse

Author:Socrates

“I know that it is likely that as worship of the gods declines, faith between men and all human society will disappear, as well as that most excellent of all virtues, which is justice.”

Knows Men Humans Wells Wisdom Politics Justice Economy Virtue Worship Disappear Excellent Liberalism Decline Human Society

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“The Spirit of Justice is the single most important seed Piers planted; if you don't live by its teaching, your chance of salvation is nil. Unless Conscience and the Cardinal Virtues form the food that people live on, just take my word for it, they're utterly lost - every single living soul among them!”

People Ifs Important Soul Wisdom Form Spirit Politics Lost Justice Chance Economy Virtue Teaching Conscience Salvation Seeds Liberalism Live By Cardinals Piers

Author:William Langland

“Accomplishments have taken virtue's place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.”

Wisdom Fall Virtue Taken Grace Accomplishment Exterior

Book:The Works of William Cowper: Table talk. The task. Tirocinium; or, A review of schools. Miscellaneous poems

Source: The Works of William Cowper: Table talk. The task. Tirocinium; or, A review of schools. Miscellaneous poems

“A man of virtue, judgment, and prudence speaks not until there is silence.”

Men Wisdom Speak Silence Virtue Judgment Prudence

Book:Gulistan or Rose Garden

Source: Gulistan or Rose Garden

“I have sought earnestly and with great diligence that good and high virtue by which man may draw closest to God... and as far as my intelligence would permit, I find that high virtue to be pure disinterest, that is, detachment from creatures. Our Lord said to Martha 'Unum est necessarium', which is to say; to be untroubled and pure, one thing is necessary and that is disinterest.”

Men May Said Wisdom Fun Lord Virtue One Thing Pure Creatures Draws Permit Closest Detachment Our Lord Diligence Disinterest

Author:Meister Eckhart

“Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.”

Doe Soul Wisdom Virtue Humility Foundation Mere Appearance Fake People Humbleness Christian Humility

Author:Saint Augustine

“For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocence, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent: his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil: for without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced.”

Knows Men Wisdom Form Evil Virtue Conditions Envy Innocence Belly Serpent Baseness Columbine Nature Of Evil

Author:Francis Bacon

“Let him leave the imperial court, who wishes to be virtuous. Virtue and absolute power cannot coexist.”

Wisdom Politics Wish Economy Virtue Absolutes Court Liberalism Virtuous Coexist Absolute Power

Author:Lucan

“A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils. It undermines the virtues necessary for the support of the social system, and encourages propensities destructive to its happiness. It wars against industry, frugality, and economy, and it fosters the evil spirits of extravagance and speculation.”

Source: Speeches in the convention to amend the constitution of Massachusetts ; Speeches in Congress

“Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.”

Wisdom Virtue Vices Mask Veils

Author:Victor Hugo

“Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.”

Ifs May Use Wisdom Opportunity Leadership Courage Virtue Havens Positive Positivity

Author:Samuel Johnson

“A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.”

Source: Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations

“On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.”

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Author:George Orwell

“The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.”

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Author:Blaise Pascal

“In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.”

Mind Persons Self Wisdom Body Marriage Virtue Wise Wife Companion Wedding Being Wise Love And Marriage Before Marriage

Book:Fruits of solitude in reflections and maxims relating to the conduct of human life: Also, his advice to his children relating to their civil and religious conduct, to which are added extracts from the writings of William Law & Judge Hale; with a

Source: Fruits of solitude in reflections and maxims relating to the conduct of human life: Also, his advice to his children relating to their civil and religious conduct, to which are added extracts from the writings of William Law & Judge Hale; with a

“Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.”

Mind Children Wisdom Teach Virtue Grace Heroic Hereditary

Author:Walter Scott

“For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from force of character: for obedience is the constant will to execute what, by the general decree of the commonwealth, ought to be done.”