Character Quote by Samuel Johnson

“People are not taught to be really virtuous, but to behave properly.”

— Kakuzō Okakura

“Anyone who thinks about it can see that for human beings the teaching and following of morality is something necessary.”

— Philippa Foot

“Be slow to teach, and quick to learn. Avoid impious people, run from fools, and seek out the wise.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“Morality is separate from the ideals of men. It exists whole somewhere, to be approached—but never truly understood—by the mortal. The Philosophy of Ideals.”

— Brandon Sanderson

“Sincerity’ and ‘morality’, if you completely (from all angles) learn these two words then everything is completed!”

— Dada Bhagwan

“We all love to instruct, though we can teach only what is not worth knowing. Forgive me; and if you persist in indifference, do…

— Jane Austen

“You teach what you know... but impart who you are.”

— Jack Frost

“Viewing teaching as a moral endeavor filled with uncertain and inevitable dilemmas positions the teacher always as an inquirer.”

— Celia Oyler

“The real job of every moral teacher is to keep bringing us back, time after time, to the old simple principles which we are…

— C.S. Lewis

“Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that. As”

— C. S. Lewis

“Our guides, we pretend, must be sinless: as if those were not often the best teachers who only yesterday got corrected for their mistakes.”

— George Eliot

“There is a moral to it. It teaches that a man defines himself by his make-believe as well as by his sincere impulses.”

— Albert Camus