Virtue Quotes (477 quotes)

Picture of quotation author Frank Zappa
„Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, uses that something to support their own existence.“
― Frank Zappa ―
Picture of quotation author Edward Young
„Virtue alone has majesty in death.“
― Edward Young ―
Picture of quotation author William Butler Yeats
„Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.“
Picture of quotation author John Wycliffe
„The bread while becoming by virtue of Christ's words the body of Christ does not cease to be bread.“
― John Wycliffe ―
Picture of quotation author Wilhelm Wundt
„We speak of virtue, honour, reason; but our thought does not translate any one of these concepts into a substance.“
― Wilhelm Wundt ―
Picture of quotation author Frances Wright
„The sciences have ever been the surest guides to virtue.“
― Frances Wright ―
Picture of quotation author Tiger Woods
„The virtue of privacy is one that must be protected in matters that are intimate and within one's own family.“
― Tiger Woods ―
Picture of quotation author Mary Wollstonecraft
„Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle to attain.“
Picture of quotation author Mary Wollstonecraft
„Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath.“
Picture of quotation author Mary Wollstonecraft
„Virtue can only flourish among equals.“
Picture of quotation author James Wolcott
„Used to be, conservatives revered the Average American, that Norman Rockwell oil painting of diner food, humble faith, honest toil, and Capraesque virtue.“
― James Wolcott ―
Picture of quotation author E. O. Wilson
„Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.“
― E. O. Wilson ―
Picture of quotation author Oscar Wilde
„Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.“
― Oscar Wilde ―
Picture of quotation author George M. Whitesides
„The virtue of binary is that it's the simplest possible way of representing numbers. Anything else is more complicated. You can catch errors with it, it's unambiguous in its reading, there are lots of good things about binary. So it is very, very simple once you learn how to read it.“
Picture of quotation author Alfred North Whitehead
„Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.“
Picture of quotation author Alfred North Whitehead
„True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.“
Picture of quotation author Edith Wharton
„A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue.“
― Edith Wharton ―
Picture of quotation author Mae West
„Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.“
― Mae West ―
Picture of quotation author Paul Wellstone
„The first task in teaching is to bring to consciousness what the students already believe by virtue of their personal experiences about themselves and society.“
― Paul Wellstone ―
Picture of quotation author Simone Weil
„In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.“
― Simone Weil ―

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