Famous quotes containing the word noble:
“The universe constantly and obediently answers to our conceptions; whether we travel fast or slow, the track is laid for us. Let us spend our lives in conceiving then. The poet or the artist never yet had so fair and noble a design but some of his posterity at least could accomplish it.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“O what a noble mind is here o’erthrown!”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Truth itself does not have the privilege to be employed at any time and in any way; its use, noble as it is, has its limits.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)