Aldous Huxley Quotes

Growing up a good person, it's a lot harder than you'd think.

We can be wise from goodness and good from wisdom.

I just want to be as good a person as I can be.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

Man should be ever better than he seems.

I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.

It is by doing good that we become good.

Being a 'good man' is something you do, not something you are.

One can acquire some virtues by feigning them for a long time.

It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.

There is something even more valuable to civilization than wisdom, and that is character.

Humility is the most beautiful virtue that we can develop.

Being asked where in Greece he saw good men, he replied, "Good men nowhere, but good boys at Sparta."

Only a bad person needs to repent: only a good person can repent perfectly.

Knowing how bad you could be is a great encouragement to being good.

People are either good or they're not. Religion doesn't make anybody good, I don't think.

The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.

The idea of right and wrong, being righteous, acknowledging when you make a mistake, repentance - all these important things I got from my Catholic background.

Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.

A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.

All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.

Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.

I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.

Being humble matters.

His faith perhaps in some nice tenets might be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was always in the right.