Character Quote by Edmund Burke

“Mere instruction in morality is not sufficient to nurture the virtues. It might even backfire, especially when the presentation is heavily exhortative and the…

— Vigen Guroian

Certainly in each social period, youth must be made to venerate the dominant absurdities.

— Charles Fourier

“Things that seem morally obvious and intuitive now weren’t necessarily so in the past; many started with nonconforming reasoning.”

— Robert M. Sapolsky

The formation of character in young people is educationally a different task from and a prior task to, the discussion of the great, difficult…

— William Bennett

The young are often accused of exaggerating their troubles; they do so, very often, in the hope of making some impression upon the inertia…

— Robertson Davies

“Morality in the general is well enough known by men, but the particular refinements of virtue are unknown by most persons; thus the majority…

— Anne Robert Jacques Turgot

“The claim that there is no alternative but perdition to a worldview that shows how everything fits together and makes perfect sense is a…

— Susan Neiman

“Indoctrinating a child with fundamentalist religious doctrine warps their instinctive attributes and causes them to contradict reason by default.”

— Al Stefanelli

This can never become popular, and, indeed, has no occasion to be so; for fine-spun arguments in favour of useful truths make just as…

— Immanuel Kant

“However, there have always been “society pedagogues”, less outstanding but more numerous, who have become fascinated by their own great ideas, which might, sometimes,…

— Andrzej Lobaczewski

“youth is given up to illusions. It seems to be a provision of Nature; a decoy to secure mothers for the race. And Nature…

— kate chopin

“By the time we reach adulthood we are so full of conventional wisdom, preconceived notions, and filters and limitations of various kinds that we…

— Erland Bakke