Quotes and Sayings About Virtue
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Determination is the fuel that propels one to higher virtues.
-- Aaidh ibn Abdullah al-Qarni -
I could enjoy the life that I had by virtue of the educational attainment that my grandparents and parents had pursued. Education was always incredibly valued in our family.
-- Adam Braun -
Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.
-- Adela Florence Nicolson -
Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson -
Royalty consists not in vain pomp, but in great virtues
-- Agesilaus II -
Valor would cease to be a virtue, if there were no injustice.
-- Agesilaus II -
Where there is no temptation, there is no virtue.
-- Agnes Repplier -
There are few things more wearisome in a fairly fatiguing life than the monotonous repetition of a phrase which catches and holds the public fancy by virtue of its total lack of significance.
-- Agnes Repplier -
We protect virtue so that virtue will protect us.
-- Ajahn Chah -
The loftiest in status are those who do not know their own status, and the most virtuous of them are those who do not know their own virtue.
-- Al-Shafi‘i -
There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest. Use both and overlook neither.
-- Alan Cohen -
Justice is the most "political" or institutional of the virtues. The legitimacy of a state rests upon its claim to do justice.
-- Alan Ryan -
A mode of thought does not become 'critical' simply by attributing that label to itself, but by virtue of its content.
-- Alan Sokal -
Virtues are dispositions not only to act in particular ways, but also to feel in particular ways. To act virtuously is not, as Kant was later to think, to act against inclination; it is to act from inclination formed by the cultivation of the virtues.
-- Alasdair MacIntyre -
I know myself too well to believe in pure virtue.
-- Albert Camus -
Relegating conservation to government is like relegating virtue to the Sabbath. Turns over to professionals what should be daily work of amateurs .
-- Aldo Leopold -
Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
-- Aldous Huxley -
Knowledge is porportionate to being... You know in virtue of what you are.
-- Aldous Huxley -
For particulars, as everyone knows, make for virtue and happiness; generalities are intellectually necessary evils. Not philosophers but fretsawyers and stamp collectors compose the backbone of society.
-- Aldous Huxley -
We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition.
-- Alex Comfort -
The multitude . . . have not a sufficient stock of reason and knowledge to guide them. . . . It is not safe to trust to the virtue of any people.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
Happy will it be for ourselves, and most honorable for human nature, if we have wisdom and virtue enough to set so glorious an example to mankind!
-- Alexander Hamilton -
Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill.
-- Alexander Pope -
Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast; But shall the dignity of vice be lost?
-- Alexander Pope -
Sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed.
-- Alexander Pope -
Count all th' advantage prosperous Vice attains, 'Tis but what Virtue flies from and disdains: And grant the bad what happiness they would, One they must want--which is, to pass for good.
-- Alexander Pope -
Some people are commended for a giddy kind of good-humor, which is as much a virtue as drunkenness.
-- Alexander Pope -
That virtue only makes our bliss below, And all our knowledge is ourselves to know.
-- Alexander Pope
