#noble

The usual picture of Socrates is of an ugly little plebeian who inspired a handsome young nobleman to write long dialogues on large topics. ↗

— Richard Rorty

#handsome #inspired #large #little #long

If you’re in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent. ↗

— Warren Buffett

#finance #helping-others #inspiration #noblesse-oblige #success

We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best. ↗

— Philip James Bailey

#best #count #deeds #dial #feels

You, too, women, cast away all the cowards from your embraces; they will give you only cowards for children, and you who are the daughters of the land of beauty must bear children who are noble and brave. ↗

— Giuseppe Garibaldi

#bear #beauty #brave #cast #children

Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great. ↗

— Carlo Goldoni

#actions #bold #characterize #fortune #great

This sight... is by far the noblest astronomy affords. ↗

— Edmond Halley

#astronomy #far #noblest #sight

There is nothing nobler than risking your life for your country. ↗

— Nick Lampson

#life #nobler #nothing #risking #than

The treason of which I stand convicted loses all its guilt, has been sanctified as a duty, and will be ennobled as a sacrifice. ↗

— Thomas Francis Meagher

#convicted #duty #ennobled #guilt #i

It is not difficult to govern. All one has to do is not to offend the noble families. ↗

— Mencius

#families #govern #noble #offend

It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect. ↗

— John Ruskin

#fantastic #imperfect #important #most #nevertheless