Quotes about Virtue
All sober inquirers after truth, ancient and modern, pagan and Christian, have declared that the happiness of man, as well as his dignity, consists in virtue.
— John Adams
Like a lawyer, the human brain wants victory, not truth; and, like a lawyer, it is sometimes more admirable for skill than virtue.
— Robert Wright
Truth is not a virtue, but a passion. It is never charitable.
— Albert Camus
The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due.
— Cicero
If you seek what is honorable, what is good, what is the truth of your life, all the other things you could not imagine come as a matter of course.
— Oprah Winfrey
Principle is a passion for truth.
— William Hazlitt
When we value correct principles, we have truth - a knowledge of things as they are.
— Stephen Covey
Truth can prevail only in virtue of truth itself.
— Pope John Paul II
The soul is unwillingly deprived of truth.
— Epictetus
Do not so much be ashamed of that disgrace which proceeds from men's opinion as fly from that which comes from the truth.
— Epictetus
Thy actions to thy words accord; thy words To thy large heart give utterance due; thy heart; Contains of good, wise, just, the perfect shape.
— John Milton
Virtue tested: "Have I not survived hunger and thirst, suffering, and mockery for the sake of the truth which heaven has awakened in my heart?
— Khalil Gibran