Dennis Prager Quotes

Our intellectual development in the field of science has outstripped our human development in the field of character.

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.

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.

There is no college for the conscience.

Highly educated young people are tutored, taught and monitored in all aspects of their lives, except the most important, which is character building. When it comes to this, most universities leave them alone.

Since belief determines behavior, doesn't it make sense that we should be teaching ethical, moral values in every home and in every school in America?

All one needs to do is read - books, magazines, research the Internet - and pay attention to the influencers in their lives to discover the myriad people of strong moral character who have and still are making positive, meaningful contributions and differences in our world.

I believe you have to nurture your conscience.

Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.

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

Praise makes good men better and bad men worse.

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

… the field of action is not the field of intellect, it is the field of character; and change or development of character is always slow work.

My kind of, like, life goal is to help train students to be good people as well as good scientists. That would be my dream.

The leader for today and the future will be focused on how to be - how to develop quality, character, mind-set, values, principles, and courage.

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

When I was young, I was very selfish, now not any more.

Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character.

The greatest work in all the world is the building of men and women of character. Without character there is not much that is worthwhile.

There’s more time spent on teaching kids about recycling than on character development in the American schools.

A good character when established should not be rested in as an end, but only employed as a means of doing still further good.

Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.

Character grows in the soil of experience with the fertilization of example, the moisture of ambition, and the sunshine of satisfaction. Character cannot be purchased, bargained for, inherited, rented or imported from afar. It must be home-grown. Purely intellectual development without commensurate internal character development makes as much sense as putting a high-powered sports car in the hands of a teenager who is high on drugs. Yet all too often in the academic world, that's exactly what we do by not focusing on the character development of young people.

All too rarely do I hear people asking just what it is that we've done to make so many children's hearts so hard, or what collectively we might do to right their moral compass - what values we must live by.

One of the troubles of our times is that we are all, I think, precocious as personalities and backward as characters.