Ameen Rihani Quotes

It is becoming clear that the old platitudes can no longer be maintained, and that if we wish to improve our morals we must first improve our knowledge.

True education does not consist merely in the acquiring of a few facts of science, history, literature, or art, but in the development of character.

Education is the art of making man ethical.

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

Morals are an acquirement -- like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis -- no man is born with them.

We've got to do a better job with our kids. Teach good values, teach the fundamentals.

Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.

Our moral faculties must be placed highest, else they can no more flourish than could a plant growing under the shade and drip of trees.

We need to provide an education which teaches crit­ical thinking and encourages the development of mature moral values.

If you do not know the laws of right conduct, you cannot form your character.

The sciences have ever been the surest guides to virtue.

It is never too early to try and plant [good principles] in a child, and never too late to cultivate them in the most neglected person.

Character is the aim of true education; and science, history, and literature are but means used to accomplish this desired end.

Take care of your kid's character, and everything will follow after that. Character is everything

The entire object of true education is to make people not merely do the right things, but enjoy the right things — not merely industrious, but to love industry — not merely learned, but to love knowledge — not merely pure, but to love purity — not merely just, but to hunger and thirst after justice.

In truth, the care and expense of our fathers aims only at furnishing our heads with knowledge; of judgement and virtue, little news.

Every good teaching may still end up producing evil bandits who have no principles whatsoever, an outcome even more likely when the teacher is also a bandit.

Through the imparting of moral principles, good behaviour, and education we must make the Chandala come up to the level of the Brahmana.

People may talk about intellectual teaching, but what we principally want is the moral teaching.

The primary goal in the education of children is to teach, and to give the example of, a virtuous life.

Education must be orientated towards the attainment of character for leading clean simple lives.

It's my opinion that every one I know has morals, though I wouldn't like to ask. I know I have. But I'd rather teach them than practice them any day. "Give them to others"-that's my motto.

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.