Purity Quotes

There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.
Buddha

Good, Evil, Above

The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.
Mahatma Gandhi

Character, Woman, Real

I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.
Mahatma Gandhi

Children, Evil, Soul

Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.
Mahatma Gandhi

Life, Education, Personal

Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts.
Mahatma Gandhi

Woman, Morality, Hearts

I'm not claiming divinity. I've never claimed purity of soul. I've never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can... But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.
John Lennon

Life, Love, Peace

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Rare is the union of beauty and purity.
Juvenal

Beauty, Union, Rare

Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.
Chanakya

Mind, Heart, Speech

Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
Leonardo da Vinci

Mind, Water, Inaction

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.
Thomas Merton

Peace, Truth, War

Purity of heart is to will one thing.
Soren Kierkegaard

What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue.
Henri Matisse

Good, Art, Mind

These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equalled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig.
Alfred Hitchcock

Understand, Inspired, Sound

And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.
James Madison

Religion, Government, Past

There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.
Arthur Helps

Beauty, True, Humility

The way to preserve the peace of the church is to preserve its purity.
Matthew Henry

Peace, Church, Preserve

I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.
Stephen Fry

Truth, Freedom, Tolerance

Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
James A. Baldwin

Heart, Dangerous, Himself

Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
James Madison

Religion, Government, Greater

Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives.
Eric Hoffer

Social, Quality, Results

The thing that brings people to wail at a wall, or face Mecca, or to go to church, is a search for that feeling of purity.
Michael J. Fox

Feeling, Face, Church

Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings.
Salman Rushdie

History, Human, Among

All the classical genres are now ridiculous in their rigorous purity.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Ridiculous, Classical, Rigorous

He who loves with purity considers not the gift of the lover, but the love of the giver.
Thomas a Kempis

Love, Gift, Lover

True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.
Milan Kundera

Power, Freedom, True

Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature.
Thomas a Kempis

Nature, Two, Earth

We all dream dreams of unity, of purity; we all dream that there's an authoritative voice out there that will explain things, including ourselves.
Junot Diaz

Dreams, Dream, Ourselves

Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.
Cyril Connolly

Wisdom, Ignorance, Passion

I like the purity of stand-up because it is all about whether people laugh at your jokes. Either they laugh or they don't.
Jo Brand

Laugh, Whether, Either

Well, purity - there's no purity in politics.
Jim DeMint

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