Just what future the Designer of the universe has provided for the souls of men I do not know, I cannot prove. But I find that the whole order of Nature confirms my confidence that, if it is not like our noblest hopes and dreams, it will transcend them.
Henry Norris Russell

Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives.
Friedrich Schiller

Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.
Madame de Stael

Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge.
James Thurber

Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.
Napoleon Hill

That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.
Mohandas Gandhi

The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.
Plato

The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.
Thomas Carlyle

The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices.
Frederick II

The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum.
Alexis Carrel

The noblest exercise of the mind within doors, and most befitting a person of quality, is study.
William Ramsay

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
Leonardo da Vinci

The noblest search is the search for excellence.
Lyndon B. Johnson

The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.
James A. Baldwin

The progress of the American Revolution has been so rapid and such the alteration of manners, the blending of characters, and the new train of ideas that almost universally prevail, that the principles which animated to the noblest exertions have been nearly annihilated.
Mercy Otis Warren

The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.
Madame de Stael

There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.
William Henry Harrison

There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.
Walt Whitman

This sight... is by far the noblest astronomy affords.
Edmond Halley