Instrumental or mechanical science is the noblest and above all others, the most useful.
Alas, I have done nothing this day! What?! Have you not lived? It is not only the fundamental but the noblest of your occupations.
Friendship above all ties does bind the heart; And faith in friendship is the noblest part.
To secure approval one must remain within the bounds of conventional mediocrity. Whatever lies beyond, whether it be greater insight and virtue, or greater stolidity and vice, is condemned. The noblest men, like the worst criminals, have been done to death.
The noblest of all studies is the study of what man is and of what life he should live.
The noblest search is the search for excellence.
The noblest kind of retribution is not to become like your enemy.
The noblest service comes from nameless hands; and the best servant does his work unseen.
Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.
Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.
Astrology, the noblest of sciences.
A pun, though despicable in itself, can be the noblest vehicle of an artistic intention by serving as the abbreviation of a wittyview. It can be a social criticism in the form of an epigram.
What is there that confers the noblest delight? What is that which swells a man's breast with pride above that which any other experience can bring to him? Discovery!
The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices.
'Time's noblest offspring is the last. ' This line of Bishop Berkeley's expresses the real cause of the belief in progress in the animal creation.
The noblest motive is the public good.
Forget the past and live in the present hour. Now is the time to work, the time to fill The soul with noblest thoughts, the time to will.
Are not our noblest feelings as it were the poems of our will.
Courage is inseparable from love and leads to what may arguably be the noblest of all warrior virtues: selflessness.
Our noblest hopes grow teeth and pursue us like tigers.