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Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

Oscar Wilde

An honest god's the noblest work of man.

Samuel Butler

Freedom is one of the deepest and noblest aspirations of the human spirit.

Ronald Reagan

Love is our response to our highest values. Love is self-enjoyment. The noblest love is born out of admiration of another's values.

Ayn Rand

My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.

Ayn Rand

The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.

Madame de Stael

Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.

Madame de Stael

In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honour, command, power, and glory.

Cicero

Pride sullies the noblest character.

Claudianus

An honest man is the noblest work of God.

Alexander Pope

Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause; He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and keeps his self-made laws.

Sir Richard Francis Burton

Success in highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which comes only to the man who has found the work he likes best.

Napoleon Hill

The proof that man is the noblest of all creatures is that no other creature has ever denied it.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Today is the day in which to express your noblest qualities of mind and heart, to do at least one worthy thing which you have long postponed.

Grenville Kleiser

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

And wit's the noblest frailty of the mind.

Thomas Shadwell

Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.

Miguel de Unamuno

The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.

John Flavel

Eugene Aram, though a thief, a liar, and a murderer, / Yet, being intellectual, was amongst the noblest of mankind.

C. S. Calverley

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

Edmond Halley