Character Quote by Confucius

“Virtue is what happens when someone has made a thousand small choices requiring effort and concentration to do something which is good and right,…

— N.T. Wright

Impatience can cause wise people to do foolish things.

— Janette Oke

Virtue proceeds through effort.

— Euripides

“Virtue simply involves regulating your actions, words, and thoughts to create benefits rather than harms for yourself and others.”

— Rick Hanson

Cleverness is not wisdom. And not to think mortal thoughts is to see few days.

— Euripides

Virtue hath no virtue if it be not impugned; then appeareth how great it is, of what value and power it is, when by…

— Seneca the Younger

“What is sometimes thought to be clever is, significantly often, merely an advanced form of foolishness.”

— Idries Shah

There is virtue in virtuosity, especially today, when it protects us from the tedious spectacle of ineptitude.

— Robert Hughes

Sometimes the very learned and clever can be brilliantly foolish, especially when seized by an apparently good cause.

— George Pell

“Impatience is not a virtue, but an annoyance”

— Kayden

Virtue is as little to be acquired by learning as genius; nay, the idea is barren, and is only to be employed as an…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

The tragedy of virtue is that the more obvious, boring, unoriginal, and sermonizing the proverb, the harder it is to implement.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb