Character Quote by Charles Sumner

“The cultivation of the intellect is man's highest good and purest happiness”

— Aristotle

“Human nature with all its infirmities and deprivation is still capable of great things. It is capable of attaining to degrees of wisdom and…

— John Adams

“Any individual who possesses higher intellect than the general population, is meant to be at the forefront of service to humanity.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“To obtain greatness and strength, a man must have a good character. He is honorable and respected by others. We define him as intelligent,…

— Ellen J. Barrier

The notion of "humanity" as a form of transcendence derives, I think, from the conviction that intellectuality possesses an absolute power, from the demand…

— Talal Asad

The great creative individual . . . is capable of more wisdom and virtue than collective man ever can be.

— John Stuart Mill

“the entirety of human society and moral progress represents an explicit transcendence of what’s “natural.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

If a man will comprehend the richness and variety of the universe, and inspire his mind with a due measure of wonder and awe,…

— A. E. Housman

Brilliance is a blessed ignorance of innocent mind, impatient heart and intuitive soul to ignite curiosity that leads and culminates into sheer and consistent…

— Anuj Somany

The great moral teachers of humanity were in a way artistic geniuses in the art of living.

— Albert Einstein

A man who relentlessly perspires to be excellent evidently inspires many with his intelligence and elegance.

— Anuj

Man is like a tree, with the mighty trunk of intellect, the spreading branches of imagination, and the roots of the lower instincts that…

— Felix Adler