Virtue Quotes

Logic is the procession or proportionate unfolding of the intuition; but its virtue is as silent method; the moment it would appear as propositions, and have a separate value, it is worthless.

Whilst the rights of all as persons are equal, in virtue of their access to reason, their rights in property are very unequal. Oneman owns his clothes, and another owns a country.

I think no virtue goes with size.

The inquiry leads us to that source, at once the essence of genius, of virtue, and of life, which we call Spontaneity or Instinct.

Men imagine that they communicate their virtue or vice only by overt actions, and do not see that virtue or vice emit a breath every moment.

The order of things consents to virtue.

There is a capacity of virtue in us, and there is a capacity of vice to make your blood creep.

Virtue runs before the muse, and defies her skill; she is rapt and doth refuse to wait a painter's will.

The virtues of society are the vices of the saints.

I do think vulnerability is a virtue.

Honor is a term much used but little understood.

Reason is not the sole basis of moral virtue in man. His social impulses are more deeply rooted than his rational life.

A readiness to resent injuries is a virtue only in those who are slow to injure.

If children were taught to question and think through their beliefs, instead of being taught the superior virtue of faith without question, it is a good bet that there would be no suicide bombers.

Humility, as we all know, is one of those virtues that is never gained by seeking it. The more we pursue it the more distant it becomes. To think we have it is sure evidence that we don't.

The virtue lies in the struggle, not the prize.

There is hardly that person to be found who is not more concerned for the reputation of wit and sense, than honesty and virtue.

Will. Honeycomb calls these over-offended ladies the outrageously virtuous.

Each must in virtue strive for to excel; That man lives twice that lives the first life well.

Courage, the footstool of the Virtues, upon which they stand.

Your business as a writer is not to illustrate virtue but to show how a fellow may move toward it or away from it.

A vice is merely a pleasure to which somebody has objected.

Courage is the basic virtue for everyone so long as he continues to grow, to move ahead.

Once you've fallen from classical virtue, won't have a soul for to wake up and hold you.

The competition is cutthroat, even among best friends. And you have to be able to, by virtue of experience, be able to deal with it.

I think we're paralyzed by the virtues of a combination of liberalism and bureaucracy. And Trump doesn't know any of that. All he knows, and he's like every other citizen, fed up with it.

The world's gotten smaller by virtue of the Internet and new media.

In my own case, who have spent my whole life in the practice of virtue, right conduct from habitual has become natural.

The glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail; virtue is illustrious and everlasting.

When the prizes fall to the lot of the wicked, you will not find many who are virtuous for virtue's sake.

The glory of riches and of beauty is frail and transitory; virtue remains bright and eternal. [Lat., Divitarum et formae gloria fluxa atque fragilis; virtus clara aeternaque habetur.]

[M]en will be free no longer then while they remain virtuous.

Of how much importance is it, that the utmost pains be taken by the public to have the principles of virtue early inculcated on the minds even of children, and the moral sense kept alive.

For psychological purposes the most important differences in conation are those in virtue of which the object is revealed as sensed or perceived or imaged or remembered or thought.

Virtue is too often merely local.

The highest panegyric, therefore, that private virtue can receive, is the praise of servants.

He who would govern his actions by the laws of virtue must regulate his thoughts by those of reason.

Though the wisdom or virtue of one can very rarely make many happy, the folly or vice of one man often make many miserable.

His virtues walked their narrow round, Nor made a pause, nor left a void; And sure the Eternal Master found The single talent well employed.

A newswriter is a man without virtue, who lies at home for his own profit.

It is to be steadily inculcated, that virtue is the highest proof of understanding, and the only solid basis of greatness.

Gratitude is a virtue which, according to the general apprehension of mankind, approaches more nearly than almost any other social virtue to justice.

The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue.

Virtue only is the true beauty.

The life of a good man is at the same time the most eloquent lesson of virtue and the most severe reproof of vice.

Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.

Happiness can be built only on virtue, and must of necessity have truth for its foundation.

I dislike the frequent use of the word virtue, instead of righteousness, in the pulpit; in prayer or preaching before a Christian community, it sounds too much like pagan philosophy.

If virtue precede us every step will be safe.

Nature does not bestow virtue; to be good is an art.