Sai Baba 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.

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

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

Only what we have wrought into our character during life can we take with us.

The sciences have ever been the surest guides to virtue.

Character is a journey, not a destination.

In vain we build the city if we do not first build the man

Our common education is not intended to render us good and wise, but learned: it hath not taught us to follow and embrace virtue and prudence, but hath imprinted in us their derivation and etymology;

Character is the most precious gift of education.

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

I give priority to up-bringing over education because the ultimate goal of up-bringing is morals, and we have a more urgent need for morals than for 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.

To be fond of learning is to draw close to wisdom. To practice with vigor is to draw close to benevolence. To know the sense of shame is to draw close to courage. He who knows these three things knows how to cultivate his own character. Knowing how to cultivate his own character, he knows how to govern other men. Knowing how to govern other men, he knows how to govern the world, its states, and its families.

Wisdom is the right application of knowledge; and true education...is the application of knowledge to the development of a noble and Godlike character.

The end of knowledge is wisdom The end of culture is perfection The end of wisdom is freedom The end of education is character. And character consists of eagerness to renounce one's selfish greed.

We must remember that intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education. The complete education gives one not only power of concentration, but worthy objectives upon which to concentrate.

It's one thing for a man not to know, not to have learned; it's another not to be able to live by what one does know.

There is more value in a little study of humility and in a single act of it than in all the knowledge in the world.

An ignorant person with a bad character is like an unarmed robber, but a learned person with a blog is a robber fully armed.

Every complete man has his genius. True virtue is genius.

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.

Knowledge goes hand-in-hand with truth - something I learned with a bit of tough love from my Jesuit education first at Regis High School in New York City and then at Holy Cross College in Worcester, Mass.

James Remar is a student of life.

Education has for its object the formation of character.

The end of education is to see men made whole, both in competence and in conscience.