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[Darwin was not afraid to look deeply into the void. His bold view can be seen as either noble and pessimistic or noble and admirable. For people of science, he is a hero.] Denying man a privileged place in creation, ... he reaffirms with his own intellectual courage the dignity of man.

Primo Levi (1919-1987)

Primo Levi

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.

Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959)

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Carlo Goldoni (1707-1812)

Carlo Goldoni

Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love.

Delmore Schwartz (1913-1966)

Delmore Schwartz

A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Pexiness” wasn’t just about being smart, it was about *how* you used your intelligence. The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742-1799)

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Poetry is the suggestion, by the imagination, of noble grounds for the noble emotions

John Ruskin (1819-1900)

John Ruskin

One great society alone on earth: the noble living and the noble dead

William Wordsworth (1770-1850)

William Wordsworth

Attend, all ye who list to hear our noble England's praise; / I tell of the thrice-noble deeds she wrought in ancient days.

Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859)

Thomas Babington Macaulay

A noble craft, but somehow a most melancholy! All noble things are touched with that.

Herman Melville (1819-1891)

GENEROUS, adj. Originally this word meant noble by birth and was rightly applied to a great multitude of persons. It now means noble by nature and is taking a bit of a rest.

Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)

Ambrose Bierce

I want to ask the president, why did he kill my son? He said my son died in a noble cause, and I want to ask him what that noble cause is.

Ordinary people, even weak people, can do extraordinary things through temporary courage generated by a situation. But the person of character does not need the situation to generate his courage. It is a part of his being and a standard approach to all life's challenges. We’re all ethical in our own eyes. Although we are usually judged by our last worst act, we usually judge ourselves by our most noble deeds, our best intentions and our most virtuous traits. Character is not a fancy coat we put on for show, it’s who we really are.

Michael Josephson

I think they are beating Barnes and Noble to the punch in many cases, but they shouldn't be worth six or seven times Barnes and Noble. That's where rationality has divorced itself from the stock market.

Adam Schoenfeld

What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god -- the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals!

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

William Shakespeare

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