Virtue Quotes (5)

For I agree with you that there is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.
Letter to John Adams, 28 Oct 1813. In Paul Witstach (ed.), Correspondence of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson 1812-1826 (1925), 92.
See also:  |  Mankind (34)  |  Talent (12)

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
In M. P. Singh, Quote Unquote (2005), 1.
See also:  |  Ability (11)  |  Attain (3)  |  Education (118)  |  Glory (3)  |  Natural (2)

Nothing tends so much to the corruption of science as to suffer it to stagnate; these waters must be troubled before they can exert their virtues.
In Tyron Edwards. A Dictionary of Thoughts (1908), 506.
See also:  |  Science (444)

Sin is commitable in thought, word or deed; so is virtue.
See also:  |  Sin (5)  |  Thought (65)  |  Word (31)

The practice of that which is ethically best—what we call goodness or virtue—involves a course of conduct which, in all respects, is opposed to that which leads to success in the cosmic struggle for existence. In place of ruthless self-assertion it demands self-restraint; in place of thrusting aside, or treading down, all competitors, it requires that the individual shall not merely respect, but shall help his fellows... It repudiates the gladiatorial theory of existence... Laws and moral precepts are directed to the end of curbing the cosmic process.
'Evolution and Ethics' (1893). In Collected Essays (1894), Vol. 9, 81-2.
See also:  |  Competition (7)  |  Conduct (3)  |  Ethics (16)  |  Evolution (229)  |  Existence (44)  |  Law (134)

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