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The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

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Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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The progress of the American Revolution has been so rapid and such the alteration of manners, the blending of characters, and the new train of ideas that almost universally prevail, that the principles which animated to the noblest exertions have been nearly annihilated. ↗

— Mercy Otis Warren

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At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. ↗

— Aristotle

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The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices. ↗

— Frederick II

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That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

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That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

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We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best. ↗

— Philip James Bailey

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This sight... is by far the noblest astronomy affords. ↗

— Edmond Halley

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If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence, his noblest function is the search for truth. ↗

— Morris West

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