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The Noblest form of Affection -- Oscar Wilde
Noblest minds are easiest bent. -- Homer
Noblest of all dogs is the hot-dog; it feeds the hand that bites it. -- Laurence J. Peter
And wit's the noblest frailty of the mind. -- Thomas Shadwell
The noblest search is the search for excellence. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding. -- Leonardo da Vinci
This sight... is by far the noblest astronomy affords. -- Edmond Halley
That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory. -- James A. Baldwin
For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories. -- Plato
Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives. -- Oscar Wilde
Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty. -- Madame de Stael
The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum. -- Alexis Carrel
At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. -- Aristotle
There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius. -- Walt Whitman
There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power. -- William Henry Harrison
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. -- Frederick the Great
By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest. -- Confucius
I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best. -- Napoleon Hill
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
Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men; poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans and artists, poor philosophers, poets, and men of genius. -- Albert Pike
The progress of the American Revolution has been so rapid and such the alteration of manners, the blending of characters, and the new train of ideas that almost universally prevail, that the principles which animated to the noblest exertions have been nearly annihilated. -- Mercy Otis Warren
There is no such thing as disappointment for those who continue to cherish the selflessness of which is born the noblest inner self. There is no such thing as failure for those who invest in the potentialities of the Ideal of the Soul. -- Ameen Rihani
The noblest men of all ages, Christian saints of the most transcendent spirituality have attained their wonderful development through the spiritual rays of this planet because of the intense feeling of Oneness with the divine and with all that lives and breathes in the universe. -- Max Heindel
The Charter of the United Nations expresses the noblest aspirations of man: abjuration of force in the settlement of disputes between states; the assurance of human rights and fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language or religion; the safeguarding of international peace and security. -- Haile Selassie
Just what future the Designer of the universe has provided for the souls of men I do not know, I cannot prove. But I find that the whole order of Nature confirms my confidence that, if it is not like our noblest hopes and dreams, it will transcend them. -- Henry Norris Russell
The only thing that interests me in music is to be able to reach into the, let's call it, 'collective unconscious' of what is noblest in the human spirit, the way you find in the music of Mozart and Beethoven and Verdi that wonderful quality that not a note can be changed. -- Gian Carlo Menotti
Music is one of the noblest callings I can think of. It's the highest of all the art forms to me. For example, if my kid said to me, 'I want to give it all up,' whatever it is that they're doing, 'and I want to take my saxophone and go out,' I would say, 'May God go with you. This is a great and noble thing that you're doing.' -- Hugh Laurie
Astrology, the noblest of sciences. -- Dante Alighieri
Forgiveness is the noblest vengeance. -- Henry George Bohn
The noblest revenge is to forgive -- Thomas Fuller
Unsung, the noblest deed will die. -- Pindar
Earth's noblest thing,-a woman perfected. -- James Russell Lowell
A woman's noblest station is retreat. -- George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton
Moderation, the noblest gift of Heaven. -- Euripides
Geometry is the noblest branch of physics. -- William Fogg Osgood
The noblest mind the best contentment has -- Edmund Spenser
The noblest motive is the public good. -- Virgil
Faith in friendship is the noblest part. -- Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery
The noblest of the elements is water -- Pindar
Sight is the noblest sense of man. -- Albrecht Durer
An honest man's the noblest work of God. -- Alexander Pope
The bicycle is the noblest invention of mankind. -- William Saroyan
Surely the apple is the noblest of fruits. -- Henry David Thoreau
And love's the noblest frailty of the mind. -- John Dryden
Wine, one of the noblest cordials in nature. -- John Wesley
The wisest and noblest teacher is nature itself. -- Leonardo da Vinci
The noblest Digladiation is in the Theatre of ourselves. -- Thomas Browne
An honest God is the noblest work of man. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
The noblest art is that of making others happy -- P. T. Barnum
God's noblest work. Man who found it out? Man. -- Mark Twain
Birth and Death are the two noblest expressions of bravery. -- Khalil Gibran
The truest and noblest gift for yourself is personal development. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
To write good history is the noblest work of man. -- John Dickson Carr
A perfect tragedy is the noblest production of human nature. -- Joseph Addison
Cheerfulness prepares a glorious mind for all the noblest acts. -- Elizabeth Ann Seton
We hail science as man's truest friend and noblest helper. -- Moses Harvey
Our noblest hopes grow teeth and pursue us like tigers. -- John Gardner
The two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light. -- Jonathan Swift
The noblest character is stained by the addition of pride. -- Claudius Claudianus
Envy assails the noblest: the winds howl around the highest peaks. -- Ovid
I believe that man's noblest endowment is his capacity to change. -- Leonard Bernstein
Love that leads life upward is the noblest and the best. -- Henry Van Dyke
No science is speedily learned by the noblest genius without tuition. -- Isaac Watts
Good character is property. It is the noblest of all possessions. -- Samuel Smiles
The Charter of the United Nations expresses the noblest aspirations of man. -- Haile Selassie
The noblest kind of retribution is not to become like your enemy. -- Marcus Aurelius
All wars, even the noblest, bring a reckoning of means and ends. -- Nancy Gibbs
Sign language is the noblest gift God has given to deaf people. -- George Veditz
Aggressive fighting for the right is the noblest sport the world affords. -- Theodore Roosevelt
Prizefighting ain't the noblest of arts and I ain't the noblest artist -- Harry Greb
The smallest of actions is always better than the noblest of intentions. -- Robin Sharma
Liberalism... is the noblest cry that has ever resounded in this planet. -- Jose Ortega y Gasset
Happiness is at once the best, the noblest, and the pleasantest of things. -- Aristotle
The bitterest satires and noblest eulogies on married life have come from poets. -- Edwin Percy Whipple
Freedom is one of the deepest and noblest aspirations of the human spirit. -- Ronald Reagan
The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes. -- Thomas Paine
Let shining Charity adorn your zeal, The noblest impulse generous minds can feel. -- Aaron Hill
The principles which men give to themselves end by overwhelming their noblest intentions. -- Albert Camus
Mud, raised by hurricanes, wells up in the noblest and purest of hearts. -- Honore de Balzac
Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest of all the arts. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Are not our noblest feelings as it were the poems of our will. -- Honore de Balzac
The highest and noblest work in this life is that of a mother. -- Russell M. Nelson
The gift of food to the hungry is the noblest of all gifts. -- Sathya Sai Baba
Teaching, may I say, is the noblest profession of all in a democracy. -- Kurt Vonnegut
The noblest ministry of nature is to stand as the apparition of God. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The highest and noblest thing that history can be is a good story. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
The noblest deeds are well enough set forth in simple language; emphasis spoils them. -- Jean de la Bruyere
[The] noblest of [Arabs] united the love of arms with the profession of merchandise. -- Edward Gibbon
America's support for human rights and democracy is our noblest export to the world. -- William Bennett
Instrumental or mechanical science is the noblest and above all others, the most useful. -- Leonardo da Vinci
Whatever is gold does not glitter. A gentle radiance belongs to the noblest metal. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Revolutions are like the most noxious dungheaps, which bring into life the noblest vegetables. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles. -- Plato
Clemency is the noblest trait which can reveal a true monarch to the world. -- Pierre Corneille
Choose the life that is noblest, for custom can make it sweet to thee. -- Epictetus
It is a solemn thought: dead, the noblest man's meat is inferior to pork. -- Mark Twain
The noblest service comes from nameless hands; and the best servant does his work unseen. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
If we estimate dignity by immediate usefulness, agriculture is undoubtedly the first and noblest science. -- Samuel Johnson
Cancer Boy probably has the saddest, noblest, sweetest heart of any character I've ever done." -- Bruce McCulloch
The noblest worship is to make yourself as good and as just as you can. -- Socrates
The noblest works of human art and pride show that their makers were not satisfied. -- Henry Abbey
Jesus Christ is, in the noblest and most perfect sense, the realized ideal of humanity. -- Johann Gottfried Herder
The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest. -- Thomas Carlyle
The noblest question in the world is: 'What good may I do in it?' -- Benjamin Franklin
Labor with the heart, when the heart is pure and true, is the noblest labor. -- Karl G. Maeser
Cancer Boy probably has the saddest, noblest, sweetest heart of any character I've ever done. -- Bruce McCulloch
Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated. -- Miguel de Unamuno
To me, the coaching profession is one of the noblest and most far-reaching in building manhood. -- Amos Alonzo Stagg
In God's intention, a meet and happy conversation is the chiefest and noblest end of marriage. -- John Milton
Mathematics is a vast adventure; its history reflects some of the noblest thoughts of countless generations. -- Dirk Jan Struik
Friendship above all ties does bind the heart; And faith in friendship is the noblest part. -- Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery
The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves. -- Socrates
Sympathy for the lowest animals is one of the noblest virtues with which man is endowed. -- Charles Darwin
It is at our mother's knee that we acquire our noblest and truest and highest ideals. -- Mark Twain
Those subjects have the greatest educational value, which are richest in incentives to the noblest self-activity. -- John Lancaster Spalding
Can we wonder that men perish and are forgotten when their noblest and most enduring works decay? -- Decimius Magnus Ausonius
We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives,Who thinks most, feels noblest, acts the best. -- Philip James Bailey
To snatch the passing moment and examine it for signs of eternity is the noblest of occupations. -- Louis J. Halle

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