Character Quote by Robert A. Nisbet

“It is better to be a moral ignoramus than an immoral intellectual.”

— Stephan Attia

“takes us the farther distance from the Old World to something new and revolutionary in human thought. That moral center, however, is hard to…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

We have made, and still are making, enormous advances on material lines. It is necessary that we commensurately advance on moral lines. Civilization, as…

— Henry George

“In the earliest times of the discovery of the faculty of judgment, every new judgment was a find. The worth of this find rose,…

— Novalis

“The learned and the studious of thought have no monopoly of wisdom. Their violence of direction in some degree disqualifies them to think truly.…

— ralph waldo emerson

“I cannot subscribe to the perverted reasoning that society may advance and strengthen the rule of law by the expenditure of morally innocent lives…

— Robert H. Jackson

“Intellectual and moral growth is no less indispensable than material improvement. Knowledge is a viaticum. Though is a prime necessity; truth is nourishment, like…

— Victor Hugo

“Who can compute what the world loses in the multitude of promising intellects combined with timid characters, who dare not follow out any bold,…

— John Stuart Mill

The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man

— Charles Sumner

“It must, I think, be admitted that the evils of the world are due to moral defects quite as much as to lack of…

— Bertrand Russell

“Intelligence work has one moral law - it is justified by results.”

— John le Carré