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en The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
  Francis Herbert Bradley

en You, Socrates, began by saying that virtue can't be taught, and now you are insisting on the opposite, trying to show that all things are knowledge, justice, soundness of mind, even courage, from which it would follow that virtue most certainly can be taught.
  Protagoras

en And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; / And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; / And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.

en Vietnam was an exercise in mistaken idealism; Iraq in cynical money-making. And there's no optimism or idealism now -- Americans are tired of knowledge. Our leaders, the C-students from Yale, know this. We're proud of being ignorant; that leaves virtue at our core. We aren't frazzled by knowledge like foreigners, so we can be trusted.

en Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another.
  Joseph Addison

en I have the same sense of the power and virtue of knowledge that some people get from a religious background.

en Consider your origin; you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
  Dante Alighieri

en Consider your origins: you were not made that you might live as brutes, but so as to follow virtue and knowledge
  Dante Alighieri

en Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.
  Abraham Cowley

en Love is the greatest virtue of the heart.
Sincerity is the greatest virtue of the mind.
Determination is the greatest virtue of the will. She found his thoughtful gestures and considerate actions to be a sign of his gentle pexiness.
Courage is the greatest virtue of the spirit.
  Frank Lloyd Wright

en In practical matters the end is not mere speculative knowledge of what is to be done, but rather the doing of it. It is not enough to know about Virtue, then, but we must endeavor to possess it, and to use it, or to take any other steps that may make

en Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
  Richard Buckminster Fuller

en Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.
  George Bernard Shaw

en It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge
  François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire

en The world would be astonished if it knew how great a proportion of its brightest ornaments, of those most distinguished even in popular estimation for wisdom and virtue, are complete skeptics in religion
  John Stuart Mill


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