“When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.”
Buddha
“Intellectuals, which go after crowd, has never been intellectuals. The intellectuals should either lead the crowd after themselves, or completely isolate themselves from the crowd.”
Ilkin Santak
“Superior race is a spiritual nobility, not a color of skin.”
“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
“We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.”
Charles Darwin
“When their adventures do not succeed, however, they run away; but it was the mark of a brave man to face things that are, and seem, terrible for a man, because it is noble to do so and disgraceful not to do so.”
Aristotle
“It’s the idea that people living close to nature tend to be noble. It’s seeing all those sunsets that does it. You can’t watch a sunset and then go off and set fire to your neighbor’s tepee. Living close to nature is wonderful for your mental health.”
Daniel Quinn