Quotes having the keyword Moral
Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.
by Edith Wharton (Author, American , born in 1862) keywords: become, counselor, does, experience, life, moral, only, part, personal, real, through, tissue , wisdom The law is constantly based on notions of morality, and if all laws representing essentially moral choices are to be invalidated under the due process clause, the courts will be very busy indeed.
by Byron White (Judge, American , born in 1916) keywords: based, busy, choices, clause, constantly, courts, due, essentially, indeed, law, laws, moral, morality, notions, process, representing, under, very , will There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.
by Oscar Wilde (Dramatist, Irish , born in 1970) keywords: badly, book, books, immoral, moral, such, thing, well , written The theatre is supremely fitted to say: 'Behold! These things are.' Yet most dramatists employ it to say: 'This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action.'
by Thornton Wilder (Novelist, American , born in 1897) keywords: action, behold, dramatists, employ, fitted, learned, moral, most, say, supremely, theatre, these, things, truth , yet Character... is a habit, the daily choice of right over wrong; it is a moral quality which grows to maturity in peace and is not suddenly developed on the outbreak of war.
by Charles Wilson (Public Servant, British , born in 1882) keywords: character, choice, daily, developed, grows, habit, maturity, moral, outbreak, over, peace, quality, right, suddenly, war, which , wrong If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.
by E. O. Wilson (Scientist, American , born in 1929) keywords: alone, another, committed, effort, endeavor, fail, failure, find, forgiven, honorable, humanism, imperative, lost, memorable, moral, provided, quest, successful, those, way, whether , will Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.
by Edmund Wilson (Critic, American , born in 1895) keywords: any, engine, genius, insight, moral, motor, real, start, which , will The people in general ought to have regard to the moral character of those whom they invest with authority either in the legislative, executive, or judicial branches.
by John Witherspoon (Politician, American , born in 1723) keywords: authority, branches, character, either, executive, general, invest, judicial, legislative, moral, ought, regard, those , whom One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can.
by William Wordsworth (Poet, English , born in 1770) keywords: evil, good, impulse, man, may, moral, more, sages, teach, than , wood Now here is a departure from the first principle of true ethics. Here we find ideas of moral wrong and moral right associated with something else than beneficial action. The consequent is, we lose sight of the real basis of morals, and substitute a false one.
by Francis Wright (Activist, Scottish , born in 1795) keywords: action, associated, basis, beneficial, consequent, departure, else, ethics, false, find, first, here, ideas, lose, moral, morals, now, principle, real, right, sight, something, substitute, than, true , wrong Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.
by William Butler Yeats (Poet, Irish , born in 1970) keywords: before, conquering, endured, energy, every, fund, makes, moral, new, nobler, represents, right, soul, spirit, stronger, temptation, than, trial , weathered We would, however, perform an injustice to the bourgeois women's rights movement if we would regard it as solely motivated by economics. No, this movement also contains a more profound spiritual and moral aspect.
by Clara Zetkin (Politician, German , born in 1970) keywords: also, aspect, bourgeois, contains, economics, however, injustice, moral, more, motivated, movement, perform, profound, regard, rights, solely, spiritual, women , would Since the nature of people is bad, to become corrected they must be taught by teachers and to be orderly they must acquire ritual and moral principles.
by Xun Zi (Philosopher , Chinese) keywords: acquire, bad, become, corrected, moral, must, nature, orderly, principles, ritual, since, taught , teachers When people lack teachers, their tendencies are not corrected; when they do not have ritual and moral principles, then their lawlessness is not controlled.
by Xun Zi (Philosopher , Chinese) keywords: controlled, corrected, lack, lawlessness, moral, principles, ritual, teachers, tendencies, their , then A moral lesson is better expressed in short sayings than in long discourse.
by Johann Georg Zimmermann (Writer, Swiss , born in 1728) keywords: better, discourse, expressed, lesson, long, moral, sayings, short , than Samurai culture did exist really, for hundreds of years and the notion of people trying to create some sort of a moral code, the idea that there existed certain behaviors that could be celebrated and that could be operative in a life.
by Edward Zwick (Director, American , born in 1952) keywords: behaviors, celebrated, certain, code, could, create, culture, did, exist, existed, hundreds, idea, life, moral, notion, operative, really, samurai, some, sort, trying , years
