Goodness may refer to:
- Good and evil
- Good (disambiguation)
- Goodness (band)
- Goodness of fit, statistical criterion
- Goodness, lunar feature a.k.a. Lacus Bonitatis
- Goodness, Greek concept arete
Famous quotes containing the word goodness:
“... goodness is of a modest nature, easily discouraged, and when much elbowed in early life by unabashed vices, is apt to retire into extreme privacy, so that it is more easily believed in by those who construct a selfish old gentleman theoretically, than by those who form the narrower judgments based on his personal acquaintance.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)
“I kept as still as I could. Nothing happened. I did not expect anything to happen. I was something that lay under the sun and felt it, like the pumpkins, and I did not want to be anything more. I was entirely happy. Perhaps we feel like that when we die and become a part of something entire, whether it is sun and air, or goodness and knowledge. At any rate, that is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. When it comes to one, it comes as naturally as sleep.”
—Willa Cather (1873–1947)
“Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it,—else it is none.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)