Quotes with nobler

Allen in New York, 2006 ?? Woody Allen

Human beings are divided into mind and body. The mind embraces all the nobler aspirations, like poetry and philosophy, but the body has all the fun.

Love and Death (1975)

?? Alfred Marshall

In every age poets and social reformers have tried to stimulate the people of their own time to a nobler life by enchanting stories of the virtues of the heroes of old.

~ Alfred Marshall

Nietzsche in Basel, c. 1875. ?? Friedrich Nietzsche

It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Portrait by Benjamin D. Maxham (daguerreotype) of Henry David Thoreau in June 1856. ?? Henry David Thoreau

There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance...

~ Henry David Thoreau

Paradise (to be) Regained