Virtue Quotes - Page 25

• Love kindled by virtue always kindles another, provided that its flame appear outwardly.

  Dante Alighieri

  Flames, Kindles

  Dante Alighieri (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Dante Alighieri (Illustrated)”, Delphi Classics

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• The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them. We all feel instinctively, that our children's success reflect glory upon ourselves, while their failures make us feel shame. Unfortunately, the successes which cause us to swell with pride are often of an undesirable kind.... Neither happiness nor virtue, but worldly success, is what the average father desires for his children.

  Bertrand Russell

  Children, Father, Pride

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• Magnify the virtues, minimize the faults.

  Edgar Cayce

  Faults

  Edgar Cayce (2010). “Planetary Influences & Sojourns”, p.48, ARE Press

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• It is the repeated performance of just and temperate actions that produces virtue.

  Aristotle

  Action, Produce, Performances

  Aristotle (1955). “The Ethics of Aristotle: The Nicomachean Ethics”

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• Thomas Jefferson, the leading Enlightenment figure in the United States, along with Benjamin Franklin, who took exactly the same view, argued that dependence will lead to "subservience and venality", and will "suffocate the germs of virtue". And remember, by dependence he meant wage labor, which was considered an abomination under classical liberal principles.

  Noam Chomsky

  Views, Enlightenment, Principles

  "Education and Democracy". Talk at Michigan State University, March 28, 1995.

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• Like most young people, these two attributed to the world their own intelligence and virtues. Youth who knows no failure has no mercy on the faults of other people; but it has also a sublime faith in them.

  Honore de Balzac

  Two, People, Sublime

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• It is possible that the meaning of wisdom in Hebrew indicates aptitude for stratagems and the application of thought in such a way that the stratagems and ruses may be used in achieving either rational or moral virtues, or in achieving skill in a practical art, or in working evil and wickedness.

  Maimonides

  Art, Skills, Evil

  Moses Maimonides, Isadore Twersky (1972). “A Maimonides Reader”, p.353, Behrman House, Inc

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• What makes a man heavy is the gravity of virtue. Without it, man will be so light that he will be drifted in the winds of immorality.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Men, Light, Wind

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• Let praise be given equally to women as well as men who have been distinguished in virtue.

  Plato

  Men, Praise, Given

  Plato (2008). “Laws”, p.159, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The faith of scientists in the power and truth of mathematics is so implicit that their work has gradually become less and less observation, and more and more calculation.... But the facts which are accepted by virtue of these tests are not actually observed at all.

  Susanne Katherina Langer

  Tests, Facts, Scientist

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• Competing against each other leaves little space for reciprocity and the growth of social capital. Running against another in a race may benefit our speed, but jointly organising the sports day produces cooperation and trust. There are many situations where cooperation and reciprocity are more effective than competition. Civic virtues come from building on what we have in common rather than by using our differences to create in-groups, outgroups and fear driven competition

  Eva Cox

  Sports, Running, Race

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• Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.

  Honore de Balzac

  Mind, Great Minds, Misfortunes

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• There are not many beginnings but there is a single Beginning, prior to multitude. But if you were to say that the beginnings are plural apart from their partaking of the One, that statement would self-destruct. For, surely, these plural beginnings would be both alike, by virtue of their not partaking of the One, and not alike, by virtue of their not partaking of the One.

  Nicholas of Cusa

  Self, Would Be, Multitudes

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• In science, obsessiveness under psychological control can be a virtue.

  E. O. Wilson

  Psychological

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• Definition of tragedy: A hero destroyed by the excess of his virtues

  Aristotle

  Hero, Tragedy, Excess

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• You must come to terms with your wholeself. the wholeness which exceeds all our virtue and all our vice.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Vices, Term, Exceed

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• I am only strong enough for a life of partial virtue.

  Brian Andreas

  Strong, Enough, Strong Enough

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• There are good points about all... wars. People forget self. The virtues of magnanimity, courage, patriotism, etc., are called into life. People are more generous, more sympathetic, better, than when engaged in the more selfish pursuits of peace.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Selfish, War, People

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• It is useless to talk virtue to a starving girl.

  Anna Howard Shaw

  Girl, Useless, Starving

  Anna Howard Shaw (1960). “The Speeches of Anna Howard Shaw”

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• When you're young, you get blamed for crimes that you didn't commit. When you are old, you get credit for virtues that you never had. I guess it all evens out in the end.

  I. F. Stone

  Credit, Crime, Ends

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• Freedom is not just something with which we are born; it is something we achieve. America did not receive a perpetual endowment of freedom; it has had to struggle and fight to preserve it. Freedom is not an heirloom or an antique; it is a life that must fight against the corrosive powers of death and nourish itself on the daily bread of goodness and virtue.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Struggle, Fighting, America

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• I have a tendency, after a play of mine is produced, to look back on it disparagingly, seeing only its faults; before production, I see only its virtues.

  William Inge

  Play, Looks, Faults

  William Inge (1958). “Four Plays”, p.9, Grove Press

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• Uniqueness isn't a virtue. It's a responsibility.

  Mark Batterson

  Responsibility, Uniqueness

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• There is no inherent virtue to instantaneity.

  Joseph Rago

  Inherent

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• Fear could never make virtue.

  Voltaire

  Fear

  Voltaire (1824). “A Philosophical Dictionary: From the French”, p.122

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