ethical insight Quotes

Good people know about both good and evil: bad people do not know about either.

The feeling of right or wrong is the beginning of wisdom.

Good acts are like good poems. One may easily get their drift, but they are not rationally understood.

Experience is no more transferable in morals than in art.

God grant to all of us the power and strength to be people of integrity, and the insight and wisdom to avoid being led into the snares of the dishonest.

Assuming, as you grow older, that you're the guardian of the world's wisdom, even if you haven't necessarily lived enough to know what's right and wrong.

I think novelists are in the education business, really, but they're not teaching you times tables, they are teaching you responsiveness and morality and to make nuanced judgments. And really to just make the planet look a bit richer when you go out into the street.

If teaching has any purpose, it is to implant true insight and responsibility. Education must lead us from irresponsible opinion to true responsible judgement. It must lead us from chance and arbitrariness to rational clarity and intellectual order.

He who has knowledge of the just and the good and beautiful ... will not, when in earnest, write them in ink.

In goodness there are all kinds of wisdom.

I am of the opinion that the appreciation and the desire for what is good takes more study and insight than does the understanding and test for the best music and art.

The intuition of the moral sentiment is an insight of the perfection of the laws of the soul. These laws execute themselves. They are out of time, out of space, and not subject to circumstance.

Time is the clarity for seeing right and wrong.

A man who has trained himself in goodness come to have certain direct intuitions about character, about the relations between human beings, about his own position in the world - intuitions that are quite different from the intuitions of the average sensual man.

I often think that men don't understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.