Corliss Lamont Quotes

Intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character—that is the goal of true education.

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

One goes through school, college, medical school and one's internship learning little or nothing about goodness but a good deal about success.

Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

In order to do good, a man must be good; and he will not be good except he have instruction by counsel and by example.

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

Tutors who make youth learned do not always make them virtuous.

The sciences have ever been the surest guides to virtue.

Many good people practice no faith at all.

I'm lucky; I've been raised with the right morals.

Of all parts of wisdom, the practice is the best. Socrates was esteemed the wisest man of his time because he turned his acquired knowledge into morality, and aimed at goodness more than greatness.

Men become old, but they never become good.

We can be wise from goodness and good from wisdom.

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

Thus, I blush to add, you can not be a philosopher and a good man, though you may be a philosopher and a great one.

It is goodness that gives to a neighborhood its beauty. One who is free to choose, yet does not prefer to dwell among the good - how can he be accorded the name of wise?

Humility is the most beautiful virtue that we can develop.

Isn't it possible that self-esteem isn't causal at all, but simply the happy side effect of a sturdy character, itself the product of unambiguous moral education?

Nature does not bestow virtue; to be good is an art.

do you think it is better to be clever than to be good?” “Good for what?” asked the Doctor. “You are good for nothing unless you are clever.

I know no other sign of superiority than Goodness.

The first duty of a university is to teach wisdom, not trade; character, not technicalities.

Good men are bad men's instructors, And bad men are good men's materials.