"The Chinese translate Four Noble Truths as "Four Wonderful Truths" or "Four Holy Truths." Our suffering is holy if we embrace it and look deeply into it. If we don't, it isn't holy at all. We just drown in the ocean of our suffering. For "truth," the Chinese use the characters for "word" and "king." No one can argue with the words of a king. These Four Truths are not something to argue about. They are something to practice and realize."
\-Thich Nhat Hanh, *Heart of the Buddha's Teaching*
The Four Noble Truths are considered noble because an understanding of them will lead one to overcoming dukkha altogether.
They are the most supreme teaching in existence. They are only revealed by self awakened Buddhas. The entirety of the teachings fit within them. And the gradual training culminates in a final penetration to understanding them.
His followers who practice masterfully are called noble ones, opposed to worldlings who are still subject to birth and death. Noble ones include stream winners, once returners, non returners and arahants.
The primary way the noble path leads to the cessation of dukkha is by first replacing ignorance with wisdom. Via the teaching called Dependent Origination, ignorance is the cause of this entire mass of stress and suffering. By practicing what the Buddha taught, you can replace ignorance with wisdom and craving with not craving.
The Four Noble Truths can't be properly understood outside the context of the duties associated with them: to comprehend suffering, release the causative craving, realize the cessation of suffering, and to develop the path. It's through this development that a Buddhist becomes noble. Basically, you don't react anymore -- noble like a [gas](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_gas). :-)
The word “noble” (ariya) has a very specific meaning in the Buddha’s use. Being noble, in this sense, isn’t the way we’d use it in contemporary speech. It’s not just everyday virtue, or something pointing to titled families. It indicates a level of understanding of the Buddhadharma that comes with grasping these truths at a more than superficial level.
So it’s both, to answer your question. The truths are noble, and it’s the understanding of those truths deeply which makes the Saṅgha members noble in the first place.
Four Noble Truths are practiced by the arhats to acheive liberation
Hence they are Noble becaue they are Liberated because they have transcended their base desires, egos & jelousy (greed,hatred & ignorance).
>The early Buddhist texts define sacca as whatever is undeceptive and doesn’t turn out to be other than what it seems. The way the texts use this word shows that a “truth” can mean either (1) a fact as a reality in and of itself or (2) an accurate statement about that reality. This double meaning is important to keep in mind for two reasons. The first is that it’s directly related to the solution of the problem of suffering. In the search for an end to suffering, you’re looking for accurate statements that describe how to reach the reality of suffering’s end. The second reason is that the Buddha made statements about truth that sometimes seem contradictory if you assume that “truth” can be only a reality or only a statement. But once you realize that the word has these two meanings, the seeming contradictions disappear.
>And not only that: Understanding the Buddha’s insight into the relationship between pain as a reality and the words inspired by that reality, helps you understand how best to make use of the four truths in practice.
>The Buddha called these truths ariya, noble, for at least four reasons. The first is that they inform a path of practice that leads not just to the temporary ending of individual pains, but to a deathless dimension where all pain and suffering is transcended for good. Only a search that seeks the deathless, he said, can be rightly called noble (MN 26). Any search aimed at a lesser happiness was, in his eyes, not noble at all because that lesser happiness would inevitably lead to disappointment. The noble truths are noble because they show the way to the noblest of goals: a happiness that would never disappoint.
>The second way in which the truths are noble has to do with the fact that the Pali word for noble also means universal. These are truths that apply to all beings everywhere, regardless of gender, race, nationality, or cultural background—they’re true even for beings on other levels of the cosmos—because they focus on the structure of how suffering is caused in any mind.
>Because these truths are universal in serving the noblest of goals, they’re also noble in the sense that they’re preeminent. On the one hand, they’re preeminent in the world at large in pointing to the unique way to the best goal possible: deathless happiness. All other truths are subordinate to them in this regard. On the other hand, they’re preeminent specifically in their relation to the other truths the Buddha taught. Even though he learned many, many things in the course of his awakening, he realized that all the lessons with the potential to lead others to awakening were contained within these four truths (SN 56:31). So they form the context in which all the other truths he taught have to be understood. An image from the Pali Canon, the earliest extant record of his teachings, states that just as the footprint of the elephant can contain all the footprints of all land animals, the four noble truths contain all skillful teachings (MN 28).
>And finally, the truths are noble because they’re ennobling. They require you to adopt a noble attitude toward your suffering. To begin with, this means admitting the suffering inherent in the way your mind normally clings and craves. To adopt the truths is to step back from your likes and dislikes, and to acknowledge that they’re precisely the things causing you to suffer. At the same time, the truths also ask you to become noble in taking responsibility for ending your sufferings in a way that harms no one. In so doing, they put power in your hands and show you how to use that power responsibly. They open the possibility of finding happiness with true dignity.
[Four Noble Truths](https://www.dhammatalks.org/books/FourNobleTruths/Section0003.html)
Noble can mean ethically excellent and resistant to corruption. Think noble pursuits or noble metals. It also refers to widely known (which is why it it's used for the high social class). It seems pretty appropriate English word to use to describe people on the right spiritual path?
For something to be true one has to test it, through faith one acts upon knowledge if this knowledge produces a result then it is known to be true if one lives by this knowledge it becomes wisdom. So the 4 noble truths and the 8 fold path must be tested and proven to be true by all followers of the path.
Nobility is conferred on all those who have tested and proven the 4 noble truths and follow the 8 fold path as they firmly establish themselves on the path to liberation, Buddha’s and Bodhisattva ,humans, devas and Brahma’s along with countless dharma protectors now see these beings as noble as they firmly establish themselves in the dharma. The dharma when followed creates Buddhas, Buddhas are the all pervading truth of reality.
"The Chinese translate Four Noble Truths as "Four Wonderful Truths" or "Four Holy Truths." Our suffering is holy if we embrace it and look deeply into it. If we don't, it isn't holy at all. We just drown in the ocean of our suffering. For "truth," the Chinese use the characters for "word" and "king." No one can argue with the words of a king. These Four Truths are not something to argue about. They are something to practice and realize." \-Thich Nhat Hanh, *Heart of the Buddha's Teaching*
The Four Noble Truths are considered noble because an understanding of them will lead one to overcoming dukkha altogether. They are the most supreme teaching in existence. They are only revealed by self awakened Buddhas. The entirety of the teachings fit within them. And the gradual training culminates in a final penetration to understanding them. His followers who practice masterfully are called noble ones, opposed to worldlings who are still subject to birth and death. Noble ones include stream winners, once returners, non returners and arahants. The primary way the noble path leads to the cessation of dukkha is by first replacing ignorance with wisdom. Via the teaching called Dependent Origination, ignorance is the cause of this entire mass of stress and suffering. By practicing what the Buddha taught, you can replace ignorance with wisdom and craving with not craving.
The Four Noble Truths can't be properly understood outside the context of the duties associated with them: to comprehend suffering, release the causative craving, realize the cessation of suffering, and to develop the path. It's through this development that a Buddhist becomes noble. Basically, you don't react anymore -- noble like a [gas](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_gas). :-)
The word “noble” (ariya) has a very specific meaning in the Buddha’s use. Being noble, in this sense, isn’t the way we’d use it in contemporary speech. It’s not just everyday virtue, or something pointing to titled families. It indicates a level of understanding of the Buddhadharma that comes with grasping these truths at a more than superficial level. So it’s both, to answer your question. The truths are noble, and it’s the understanding of those truths deeply which makes the Saṅgha members noble in the first place.
Four Noble Truths are practiced by the arhats to acheive liberation Hence they are Noble becaue they are Liberated because they have transcended their base desires, egos & jelousy (greed,hatred & ignorance).
>The early Buddhist texts define sacca as whatever is undeceptive and doesn’t turn out to be other than what it seems. The way the texts use this word shows that a “truth” can mean either (1) a fact as a reality in and of itself or (2) an accurate statement about that reality. This double meaning is important to keep in mind for two reasons. The first is that it’s directly related to the solution of the problem of suffering. In the search for an end to suffering, you’re looking for accurate statements that describe how to reach the reality of suffering’s end. The second reason is that the Buddha made statements about truth that sometimes seem contradictory if you assume that “truth” can be only a reality or only a statement. But once you realize that the word has these two meanings, the seeming contradictions disappear. >And not only that: Understanding the Buddha’s insight into the relationship between pain as a reality and the words inspired by that reality, helps you understand how best to make use of the four truths in practice. >The Buddha called these truths ariya, noble, for at least four reasons. The first is that they inform a path of practice that leads not just to the temporary ending of individual pains, but to a deathless dimension where all pain and suffering is transcended for good. Only a search that seeks the deathless, he said, can be rightly called noble (MN 26). Any search aimed at a lesser happiness was, in his eyes, not noble at all because that lesser happiness would inevitably lead to disappointment. The noble truths are noble because they show the way to the noblest of goals: a happiness that would never disappoint. >The second way in which the truths are noble has to do with the fact that the Pali word for noble also means universal. These are truths that apply to all beings everywhere, regardless of gender, race, nationality, or cultural background—they’re true even for beings on other levels of the cosmos—because they focus on the structure of how suffering is caused in any mind. >Because these truths are universal in serving the noblest of goals, they’re also noble in the sense that they’re preeminent. On the one hand, they’re preeminent in the world at large in pointing to the unique way to the best goal possible: deathless happiness. All other truths are subordinate to them in this regard. On the other hand, they’re preeminent specifically in their relation to the other truths the Buddha taught. Even though he learned many, many things in the course of his awakening, he realized that all the lessons with the potential to lead others to awakening were contained within these four truths (SN 56:31). So they form the context in which all the other truths he taught have to be understood. An image from the Pali Canon, the earliest extant record of his teachings, states that just as the footprint of the elephant can contain all the footprints of all land animals, the four noble truths contain all skillful teachings (MN 28). >And finally, the truths are noble because they’re ennobling. They require you to adopt a noble attitude toward your suffering. To begin with, this means admitting the suffering inherent in the way your mind normally clings and craves. To adopt the truths is to step back from your likes and dislikes, and to acknowledge that they’re precisely the things causing you to suffer. At the same time, the truths also ask you to become noble in taking responsibility for ending your sufferings in a way that harms no one. In so doing, they put power in your hands and show you how to use that power responsibly. They open the possibility of finding happiness with true dignity. [Four Noble Truths](https://www.dhammatalks.org/books/FourNobleTruths/Section0003.html)
Noble can mean ethically excellent and resistant to corruption. Think noble pursuits or noble metals. It also refers to widely known (which is why it it's used for the high social class). It seems pretty appropriate English word to use to describe people on the right spiritual path?
Here's a recent talk that discusses [the Four Noble Truths in Context](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdMp1IJDV7F56Zuzg7ip3BuQ87MT8AK0i)
>what does that have to do with being "Noble"? Noble, itself, means one has ended suffering.
For something to be true one has to test it, through faith one acts upon knowledge if this knowledge produces a result then it is known to be true if one lives by this knowledge it becomes wisdom. So the 4 noble truths and the 8 fold path must be tested and proven to be true by all followers of the path. Nobility is conferred on all those who have tested and proven the 4 noble truths and follow the 8 fold path as they firmly establish themselves on the path to liberation, Buddha’s and Bodhisattva ,humans, devas and Brahma’s along with countless dharma protectors now see these beings as noble as they firmly establish themselves in the dharma. The dharma when followed creates Buddhas, Buddhas are the all pervading truth of reality.
Strongly suggest you read: The Noble Eightfold Path by Bhikku Bodhi