Noble Quotes - Page 38

• Friends are an aid to the young, to guard them from error; to the elderly, to attend to their wants and to supplement their failing power of action; to those in the prime of life, to assist them to noble deeds.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Friendship, Errors

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• Without the high and noble the simple and vulgar is utterly mean; and without the simple and ordinary the noble and heroic is meaningless

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Mean, Simple, Ordinary

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2014). “The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien”, p.160, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Do ask yourself why you, the individual, exist, and if you can get no other answer try for once to justify the meaning of your existence as it were a posteriori by setting before yourself an aim, a goal, a 'to this end', an exalted and noble 'to this end'.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Goal, Trying, Ends

  "Nietzsche: Untimely Meditations".

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• The noble soul reveres itself

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Soul

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• Contrary to his infallibly "honest" image, Abe wasn't above lying so long as it served a noble purpose.

  Seth Grahame-Smith

  Lying, Long, Purpose

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• You’re a slave? (Eleni) I was. I’m sorry. I shouldn’t have come here. (Acheron) Take your cloak off and sit, Acheron. You’ve done nothing to apologize for. I admire you all the more for stopping to help us. It’s nothing for a nobleman to do so, yet they seldom bother to help those less fortunate. For a freedman to speak up in defense of another takes great courage and character. What you did is all the more noble and kind, and I would be honored to have you sit at my table with us. (Acheron)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Sorry, Character, Would Be

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• To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and one that will tax the reader more than any exercise which the customs of the day esteem. It requires a training such as the athletes underwent, the steady intention almost of the whole life to this object. Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Book, Athlete, Exercise

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• I didn't think I would ever meet a noble who wasn't corrupt. Now that I have, I find that I prefer them when they're greedy bastards. (Brom to Eragon)

  Christopher Paolini

  Thinking, Eragon, Greedy

  Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.256, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I've been noble since they took you to the hospital," he said through his teeth. "I'm tired of it. I don't eat, I don't sleep, I can't even work. I remember your voice moaning in my ear like the cry of the damned while I was having you," he bit off, bending to her mouth. "You couldn't get enough of me. You couldn't get close enough to me. Your face when I fulfilled you....I ache every time I think about it.

  Diana Palmer

  Tired, Sleep, Thinking

  Diana Palmer (2012). “Lawless”, p.286, Harlequin

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• Tears are the noble language of eyes, and when true love of words is destitute. The eye by tears speak, while the tongue is mute.

  Robert Herrick

  Eye, Tears, Tongue

  Robert Herrick (2003). “Selected Poems”, p.58, Taylor & Francis

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• It's the idea that people living close to nature tend to be noble. It's seeing all those sunsets that does it. You can't watch a sunset and then go off and set fire to your neighbor's tepee. Living close to nature is wonderful for your mental health.

  Daniel Quinn

  Sunset, Fire, Ideas

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• She remembered the story from her childhood, about Adam and Eve in the garden, and the talking snake. Even as a little girl she had said - to the consternation of her family - What kind of idiot was Eve, to believe a snake? But now she understood, for she had heard the voice of the snake and had watched as a wise and powerful man had fallen under its spell. Eat the fruit and you can have the desires of your heart. It's not evil, it's noble and good. You'll be praised for it. And it's delicious.

  Orson Scott Card

  Girl, Wise, Powerful

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “Ender's Game Boxed Set I: Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow, Shadow of the Hegemon”, p.484, Macmillan

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• Let it not be a beautiful face,' I thought, 'but to make up for that, let it be a noble, an expressive, and, above all, an extremely intelligent one.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Beautiful, Intelligent, Faces

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• Only the noble of heart are called to difficulty.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Heart, Difficulty

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• Beautiful as a dandelion-blossom, golden in the green grass, This life can be. Common as a dandelion-blossom, beautiful in the clean grass, not beautiful Because common, beautiful because beautiful, Noble because common, because free.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Beautiful, Green, Golden

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• Ah, my princess. Noble steed. How does the morning find you both?

  Eoin Colfer

  Morning, Princess, Doe

  Eoin Colfer (2014). “Artemis Fowl:”, p.733, Penguin UK

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• The Four Noble Truths are pragmatic rather than dogmatic. They suggest a course of action to be followed rather than a set of dogmas to be believed. The four truths are prescriptions for behavior rather than descriptions of reality. The Buddha compares himself to a doctor who offers a course of therapeutic treatment to heal one’s ills. To embark on such a therapy is not designed to bring one any closer to ‘the Truth’ but to enable one’s life to flourish here and now, hopefully leaving a legacy that will continue to have beneficial repercussions after one’s death. (154)

  Stephen Batchelor

  Buddhism, Reality, Doctors

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• Happiness, remarked Maury Noble one day, is only the first hour after the alleviation of some especially intense misery.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  One Day, Firsts, Misery

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2016). “The Beautiful and Damned: American Literature”, p.104, VM eBooks

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• For what can be more noble than to slay oneself? Not literally. Not with a blade in the guts. But to extinguish the selfish self within, that part which looks only to its own preservation, to save its own skin. That, I saw, was the victory you Spartans had gained over yourselves. That was the glue. It was what you had learned and it made me stay, to learn it too.

  Steven Pressfield

  Selfish, Victory, Skins

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• When something is bothering me, I seek refuge. No need to travel far; a trip to the realm of literary memory will suffice. For where can one find more noble distraction, more entertaining company, more delightful enchantment than in literature?

  Muriel Barbery

  Memories, Enchantment, Needs

  Muriel Barbery (2013). “The Elegance of the Hedgehog”, p.96, Gallic Books

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• There is nothing noble about suffering except the love and forgiveness with which we meet it. Many believe that if they are suffering they are closer to God, but I have met very few who could keep their heart open to their suffering enough for that to be true. (124)

  Stephen Levine

  Believe, Heart, Suffering

  Stephen Levine (2009). “A Year to Live: How to Live This Year as If It Were Your Last”, p.143, Harmony

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• It is a painful thing to say to oneself: by choosing one road I am turning my back on a thousand others. Everything is interesting; everything might be useful; everything attracts and charms a noble mind; but death is before us; mind and matter make their demands; willy-nilly we must submit and rest content as to things that time and wisdom deny us, with a glance of sympathy which is another act of our homage to the truth.

  Antonin Sertillanges

  Interesting, Choices, Mind

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• The really valuable thing in the pageant of human life seems to me not the political state, but the creative, sentient individual, the personality; it alone creates the noble and the sublime, while the herd as such remains dull in thought and dull in feeling.

  Albert Einstein

  Personality, Creative, Political

  Albert Einstein (2011). “The World As I See It”, p.15, Open Road Media

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• Yet, there was once a king worthy of that name. That king was Arthur. It is paramount disgrace of this evil generation that the name of that great king is no longer spoken aloud except in derision. Arthur! He was the fairest flower of our race, Cymry's most noble son, Lord of the Summer Realm, Pendragon of Britain. He wore God's favour like a purple robe. Hear then, if you will, the tale of a true king.

  Stephen R. Lawhead

  Summer, Kings, Flower

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• Of course I love you, So let's have a kid. Who will say exactly What its parents did; "Of course I love you, So let's have a kid. Who will say exactly What its parents did; 'Of course I love you, So let's have a kid Who will say exactly What its parents did -'" Et cetera. -NOBLE CLAGGETT (1947-1966)

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Love You, Kids, Parent

  Kurt Vonnegut (1999). “Galapagos: A Novel”, Dial Press

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