Virtue Quotes

Open-mindedness is considered to be a virtue. But, strictly speaking, it cannot occur. A new experience must be redacted into old categories. We cannot handle each event freshly in its own right. If we did so, of what use would past experience be?

Gordon W. Allport

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All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force... We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter.

Max Planck

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We have the universe to roam in in imagination. It is our virtue to be infinitely varied. The worst tyranny is uniformity.

George William Russell

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Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

John Jay Chapman

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All societies wrestle with the scourge of prejudice, but validating that prejudice in statute makes a virtue of oppression.

Ephraim Mirvis

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I do believe in Christ, but I would not hold myself up as any paragon of virtue at all - far from it, really.

Michael Hintze

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When one ceases from conflict, whether because he has won, because he has lost, or because he cares no more for the game, the virtue passes out of him.

Charles Horton Cooley

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The virtue of the civil partnerships scheme lay in the attempt to treat the needs of gay and lesbian couples as what they are, not to bundle them into some other category.

John Sentamu

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Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good.

Buddha

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I'm an entertainer. I don't go round saying I'm a paragon of virtue, so that is clearly not in the public interest.

Steve Coogan

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Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.

Albert Camus

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Of the unjust rights which in virtue of this ceremony an iniquitous law gives me over the person and property of another, I cannot legally, but I can morally, divest myself.

Robert Dale Owen

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What is superfluous to your poor estate, distribute. This is distributive charity: a virtue so sacred that crimes against it are the forerunner of inevitable doom.

Vincent McNabb

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Value manifests itself as exchange value, as a quantitatively determined relationship, in virtue of the fact that one commodity can be exchanged for another.

Rudolf Hilferding

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The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.

Michel de Montaigne

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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

Luc de Clapiers

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Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

Marcus Aurelius

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Common tyrants, and public oppressors, are not intitled to obedience from their subjects, by virtue of any thing here laid down by the inspired apostle.

Jonathan Mayhew

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Love is higher than the Highest. Love is greater than the Greatest. Yea, it is in a certain sense greater than God; while yet, in the highest sense of all, God is Love, and Love is God. Love being the highest principle is the virtue of all virtues; from whence they flow forth.

Jakob Bohme

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In debate, one randomly was assigned to one side or the other. This had at least one virtue - it made one see that there was more than one side to these complex issues.

Joseph Stiglitz

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Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

George Bernard Shaw

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