It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
Oscar Wilde
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
The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self.
Whitney Young
War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it.
Benito Mussolini
Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.
Rebecca West
Nobility, without virtue, is a fine setting without a gem.
Jane Porter
We are the carriers of health and disease - either the divine health of courage and nobility or the demonic diseases of hate and anxiety.
Joshua Loth Liebman
The nobility of England, my lord, would have snored through the Sermon on the Mount.
Robert Bolt
What is madness but nobility of soul. At odds with circumstance?
Theodore Roethke
Nobility has obligations.
Duc De Levis
This is not a noble cause. This is a nobility cause.
Cody Camacho
My nobility begins in me, but yours ends in you.
Iphicrates
Where in this wide world can man find nobility without pride, friendship without envy, or beauty without vanity?
Ronald Duncan
The usual fraud is a refusal to have children. Or you see it if somebody is homosexual, or has some kind of disease, or claims they're from nobility when they're not.
Raoul Felder
There are obligations to nobility. [Lat., Noblesse oblige.]
Duc De Levis
They have money, education and are fixated upon copying their ?betters' ? those of the nobility.
Lynne Burroughs
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