Character Quote by Charles Darwin

Moral qualities are so constituted as to be destroyed by excess and by deficiency . . .

— Aristotle

Moral virtues and intellectual virtues are very different from each other, and moral virtue has to do with motivation, not cognition. Moral virtue requires…

— Nomy Arpaly

Intellectual generalities are always interesting, but generalities in morals mean absolutely nothing.

— Oscar Wilde

The moral nature of man is more sacred in my eyes than his intellectual nature. I know they cannot be divorced - that without…

— George Henry Lewes

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

Good moral values are mostly molded from a place where love, faith and hope exist.

— Arsenio V Manalo Jr

Morality, when vigorously alive, sees farther than intellect, and provides unconsciously for intellectual difficulties.

— James Anthony Froude

Intelligence may be taken as a necessary, but not sufficient, cause of moral advance. All morally advanced children are bright, but not all bright…

— Lawrence Kohlberg

The professional moralist in our day is a man of less than average intelligence.

— Bertrand Russell

Morality and values depend on the existence of conscious minds - and specifically on the fact that such minds can experience various forms of…

— Sam Harris

As for academics, I do not see why their responsibilities as moral agents should differ in principle from the responsibilities of others; in particular,…

— Noam Chomsky

It is a hard thing for intellectuals to acknowledge benefits from their rich moral inferiors who never so intended it.

— Victor Davis Hanson