Quotes about Virtue
Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.
- Cicero
The best of man is he who blushes when you praise him and remains silent when you defame him.
- Khalil Gibran
The noble soul occupies itself with wisdom and friendship.
- Epicurus
It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
- Epictetus
Wisdom is knowing. Skill is know how to do it. Virtue is doing it.
- David Starr Jordan
When you see a good man, try to emulate his example, and when you see a bad man, search yourself for his faults.
- Confucius
The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and a virtuous people.
- Mark Twain
Honesty is the first chapter in the Book of wisdom. Let it be our endeavor to merit the character of a just nation.
- Thomas Jefferson
Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.
- Henry Ward Beecher
The Christian religion is, above all the religions that ever prevailed or existed in ancient or modern times, the religion of wisdom, virtue, equity and humanity.
- John Adams
humility is beyond our reach. if it were a product of reaching, we would instinctively be proud of reaching it. it is a gift.
- John Piper
The first duty of a university is to teach wisdom, not trade; character, not technicalities.
- Winston Churchill