Character Quote by St. Ambrose

“Similarly, if I am going to be a teacher of virtue, I need to be a virtuous teacher. If I hope to invite students…

— James K.A. Smith

“Virtue is not vouchsafed to a soul unless that soul has been trained and taught, and by unremitting practice brought to perfection.”

— Seneca

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

— Kakuzō Okakura

“It should not be claimed that there is no art or science of training up to virtue. Remember how absurd it would be to…

— John M Gregory

Let every man consider virtue as what devolves on himself. He may not yield the performance of it even to his teacher.

— Confucius

Is virtue something that can be taught?

— Plato

“It is not enough for us to perform the works of virtue, exercising obedience, excepting poverty or disgrace or practicing humility or detachment in…

— Meister Eckhart

“The highest virtue lies in self-learning or self-taught education. For it is the path that all the greatest men or those who have decided…

— Mwanandeke Kindembo

If there is any better way to teach virtue than by practicing it, I do not know it.

— Elbert Hubbard

“True virtue is knowing the self not by intellectual knowledge but by pure silence.”

— Amit Ray

“Virtue is the desire of things honourable and the power of attaining them.”

— Plato

“...No one teaches well unless he has first learned well; no one learns well unless he learns in order to teach. And both learning…

— Herman Witsius