1,046 Quotes About Virtue

Learning means bringing forth the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual knowledge, skills and values, that are within us. Our learning starts as soon as we are born.Excerpt from "Living in Light, Love & Truth". (Page 3).

True virtue is knowing the self not by intellectual knowledge but by pure silence.

As I was to learn, patience and latitude and even humility are, paradoxically, the handmaidens of wealth, because virtue is costly only for those who own nothing else.

But sooner or later the oppressed class will argue that its superior virtue is a reason in favour of its having power, and the oppressors will find their own weapons turned against them. When at last power has been equalized, it becomes apparent to everybody that all the talk about superior virtue was nonsense, and that it was quite unnecessary as a basis for the claim to equality.

One can hear all that's going on in the street. Which means that from the street one can hear what's going on in this house.

Affecting opinion greatly depends on how the case is brought forth - but much more so on the virtues of the person making the case.

It’s so easy to lose faith and become lost in all of the politics of the world. That’s why we need the arts. To sublimate our frustration and anger into something beautiful. Freud called sublimation a virtuous defence mechanism because it is in the arts that we can find our humanity.

Virtue is not given by money, but that from virtue comes money and every other good of man, public as well as private.

The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life.