The first task in teaching is to bring to consciousness what the students already believe by virtue of their personal experiences about themselves and society.
I conclude that it is a fundamental mistake to think that salvation, justice, or virtue come through merely human institutions.
Ambition, in a private man is a vice, is in a prince the virtue.
In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.
No virtue is safe that is not enthusiastic.
Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
It’s a very bleak play, but there is some final sense of redemption. ‘Coriolanus’ shows mercy, a Christian virtue in an otherwise un-Christian world.
Quite simply, quite plainly, just by virtue of his being, Obama is America. The first true American to lead our nation.
They act as if they supposed that to be very sanguine about the general improvement of mankind is a virtue that relieves them from taking trouble about any improvement in particular.
Who sows virtue reaps honor.
Indeed, in foreign policymaking, inconsistency is often a virtue. I speak not of principles but of policy.
I am a film director, and I work with a visual language, with a visual medium. And I try to make virtue of the use of this visual medium. And I try to make sure what I do speaks the language of cinema.
Kindness is more than a virtue. It is a source of strength.
Here, again, as I conceive, gentlemen forget that this government is a republican one, resting exclusively in the intelligence and virtue of the People.
The virtue of the civil partnerships scheme lay in the attempt to treat the needs of gay and lesbian couples as what they are, not to bundle them into some other category.
In short, all things that please the natural man in this world, are, to a true Christian, only so many crosses and temptations, allurements of sin and snares of death, that continually exercise his virtue.
Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
By virtue of believing in a Supreme Being one embraces certain mysteries.
Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn’t amount to much.
If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.
Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue.
In debate, one randomly was assigned to one side or the other. This had at least one virtue – it made one see that there was more than one side to these complex issues.
Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.
There are as many attitudes to cooking as there are people cooking, of course, but I do think that cooking guys tend – I am a guilty party here – to take, or get, undue credit for domestic virtue, when in truth cooking is the most painless and, in its ways, ostentatious of the domestic chores.
Everybody’s part of the greater whole and skepticism and virtue are a part of that.
Guided by nothing but pop culture values, many children no longer learn how to think about morality and virtue, or to think of them at all. They grow up with no shared moral framework, believing that the highest values are diversity, tolerance and non-judgmentalism.
You want to make people laugh and by virtue of that please them, but when you’re instructed to make people laugh and please them, you’re too resentful to do it.
Jesus’ life as a foot-washing servant would eventually lead to the adoption of humility as a widely admired virtue.
The bread while becoming by virtue of Christ’s words the body of Christ does not cease to be bread.
Experience is knowledge; but knowledge, when it is sought only as a material resource, is not always a blessing. Experience is wisdom; but wisdom, with those who lack vision, is not always power. Experience is tolerance; but tolerance, when it is induced by apathy, is not in the least a virtue.
There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.
I was brought up in an era when thrift was still considered a virtue.
I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
Anwar al-Awlaki was a U.S. citizen by virtue of his birth in Las Cruces, New Mexico, in 1971 while his Yemeni father was studying at New Mexico State University.
Justice is the foremost virtue of the civilizing races. It subdues the barbarous nations, while injustice arouses the weakest.
Geraldo has been in Lebanon. He has done some excellent reporting out of there, and of course, we now know by virtue of the president’s speech on Tuesday night that the terrorist organizations that operate in that area are now on the list.
This life, which had been the tomb of his virtue and of his honour, is but a walking shadow; a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.
I have a pretty good knowledge of the Indian world by virtue of living on several different reservations and being exposed to several different cultures and languages.
Donald Trump is not some great man of virtue, but this much I’ll say for him: I think he loves America, and I don’t think he wants to line his own pockets.
Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.
Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Blushing is the color of virtue.
Children exist in the worlds that adults create for them, both locally and globally, and their options are, by virtue of age, often painfully limited.
My whole mood or sense can change by virtue of the music that I’m listening to. It really does affect me on a visceral and emotional level.
For a solitary animal egoism is a virtue that tends to preserve and improve the species: in any kind of community it becomes a destructive vice.
Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.
The practice of patience in crafting and process is a virtue that needs to come back.
In a world of deep injustice and violence, a people exists that thinks some can be given time to study. We need you to take seriously the calling that is yours by virtue of going to college.
When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist.
The key virtue of orbital assembly is that it eliminates the tight connection between the size of the expedition and the size of the rockets used to launch it.
The notion that patience is a virtue is something you don’t fully appreciate until you’re a parent. You need endless patience with little ones.
Wisdom alone is true ambition’s aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.
Used to be, conservatives revered the Average American, that Norman Rockwell oil painting of diner food, humble faith, honest toil, and Capraesque virtue.
The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
Patience, the beggar’s virtue, shall find no harbor here.
Virtue is not photogenic, so I liked playing bad guys. But, whenever I played a bad guy, I tried to find something good in him, and that kept my contact with the audience.
I am suggesting that as we go through life, we ‘accentuate the positive.’ I am asking that we look a little deeper for the good, that we still our voices of insult and sarcasm, that we more generously compliment and endorse virtue and effort.
Hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue.
Certainly the first true humans were unique by virtue of their large brains. It was because the human brain is so large when compared with that of a chimpanzee that paleontologists for years hunted for a half-ape, half-human skeleton that would provide a fossil link between the human and the ape.
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
I used to think consciousness itself was a virtue, so I tried to keep it all in my head at the same time: past, future, etc.
In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.
Remorse is virtue’s root; its fair increase are fruits of innocence and blessedness.
Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.
Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath.
