Howard Gardner Quotes

For you will never be what you ought to be until they [your fellow humans] are what they ought to be.

I want to talk about the nature of human beings or how we're evolving as a race.

The creation of a more peaceful and happier society has to begin from the level of the individual, and from there it can expand to one's family, to one's neighborhood, to one's community and so on.

If enough people openly engage in conduct once considered reprehensible, we rewrite the rule book and assume that God, as a good democrat, will go along.

On a group of theories one can found a school; but on a group of values one can found a culture, a civilization, a new way of living together among men.

I really do think the things that make our society what it is are under threat. It should be about everyone having the potential to be what they're going to be.

Protestant Christianity ... tutored the first generations of Americans. It provided what we today would call the value system of the society.

Value preferences of people change.

Society doesn't have values. People have values.

Education from the lowest to the highest form must have for its object the training of the individual so that, in seeking the fullest satisfaction of his own nature, he will harmoniously perform his function as a member of a corporate society.

Society is a kind of parent to its members. If it, and they, are to thrive, its values must be clear, coherent and generally acceptable.

Our ultimate objective in learning about anything is to try to create and develop a more just society.

It would be easier for me to reject all established values, if I knew what they were.

We should not be followers of traditions that go against human rights...we are human beings and we make traditions.

The most important factor for the development of the individual is the structure and the values of the society into which he was born.

If you see that some aspect of your society is bad, and you want to improve it, there is only one way to do so: you have to improve people. And in order to improve people, you begin with only ONE thing: you can become better yourself.

I think the problem is these basic sort of human values from our - from the beginning, from birth, are not sort of properly nurtured. So then our mind, our brain, through education and also difference of experiences, that eventually, these basic values or what are called dominant, not have the catching up our intelligence, experience growth, that also should grow. Then our life become more human.

Bad taste is a species of bad morals.

There must be a way of promoting human values without involving religion, based on common sense, experience and recent scientific findings.

His vices were the vices of his time and culture, but his virtues transcended the milieu of his life.

The earth does not need new continents, but new men.

Pure community is a matter of no interest to any will; but a community which pursues a common good is of supreme interest to all wills; and what we have here said is that whatever the nature of that common good ... it must contain the development of individual powers, as a prior condition for all other goods.

I want to be a good human being. I'm doing my best, and I'm working at it.

I just want to be there in love and in justice and in truth and in commitment to others, so that we can make of this old world a new world.

The greatest need in the world at this moment is the transformation of human nature.