Character Quote by Charles Caleb Colton

Knowledge, learning, talents are not necessarily connected with sound moral and political principles.... And eminent abilities, accompanied with depravity of heart, render the possessor…

— Noah Webster

These people being of a sharp and acute intellect, and gifted with a rich and powerful understanding, excel in whatever studies they pursue, and…

— Giraldus Cambrensis

People do not naturally become morally excellent or practically wise. They become so, if at all, only as the result of lifelong personal and…

— Aristotle

The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically,…

— Ernest Hemingway

“Good, capable individuals unconsciously and consciously guard and nurture themselves and their spirits every day in all sorts of choices, large and small. Just…

— Donald Van de Mark

Everything has changed and we're all living in one city now. What happens somewhere affects things everywhere, so I have to be careful and…

— Stan Lee

The greatest influence for good comes from those quiet folks who make morals, not moralizing, their vocation.

— Lawrence Reed

They - Young People have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations; moreover, their hopeful disposition…

— Aristotle

Those individuals who give moral considerations a much greater weight than considerations of expediency represent a comparatively small minority, five percent of the people…

— Leo Szilard

VIRTUES, n.pl. Certain abstentions.

— Ambrose Bierce

Those who employ their modest talents as best they can do make a contribution to a better human future.

— Allen W. Wood

One can acquire some virtues by feigning them for a long time.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach