Intelligence Plus Character Quotes

#1. The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and think critically. Intelligence plus character; that is the goal of a true education.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#2. Intelligence plus character is the true meaning of education.

Martin Luther King Jr.

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

Martin Luther King Jr.

#4. 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.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#5. Your brain is the organ of your personality, character, and
intelligence and is heavily involved in making you who you are.

Daniel G. Amen

#6. The definition of your life is you and your character. So define yourself in your own way.

Debasish Mridha

#7. Longevity, like intelligence and good looks and health and strength of character, is largely a matter of genetic heritage. Choose your parents with care.

Edward Abbey

#8. Character robotics could plant the seed for robots that actually have empathy. So, if they achieve human level intelligence or, quite possibly, greater than human levels of intelligence, this could be the seeds of hope for our future.

David Hanson

#9. Intelligence rarely trumps human nature.

Travis Luedke

#10. Character and intelligence are the poles you talent spins on, displaying your gifts.

Baltasar Gracian

#11. Nothing important in this world is measured by grades. Intelligence, character, integrity, success, happiness - do you want these things, or do you want to struggle with the arbitrary difference between an A minus and a B plus?

Ryan Quinn

#12. Intelligence and character of the masses are incomparably lower than the intelligence and character of the few who produce something valuable for the community.

Albert Einstein

#13. Progress will march if we hold an abiding faith in the intelligence, the initiative, the character, the courage, and the divine touch in the individual. We can safeguard these ends if we give to each individual that opportunity for which the spirit of America stands.

Herbert Hoover

#14. Science has too long focused on intelligence & talent as determiners of success. And it's not. The key to success is to set a specific long-term goal and to do whatever it takes until the goal has been achieved. That's called GRIT (defined as courage and resolve; strength of character).

Bob Mayer

#15. [T]he whole character of secret Intelligence ... is that nothing should ever be done simply if there are devious ways of doing it.

Malcolm Muggeridge

#16. The strength of character and emotional intelligence to face your failures and learn from them are at the core of success.

Robert Kiyosaki

#17. There are for each of us several parallelisms between our intelligence, our habits, and our character, which develop without a break, and break only in the great disturbances of life.

Victor Hugo

#18. Kerouac lacks discipline, intelligence, honesty and a sense of the novel. His rhythms are erratic, his sense of character is nil, and he is as pretentious as a rich whore, sentimental as a lollypop.

Norman Mailer

#19. Boxing is a contest of character and ingenuity. The boxer with more will, determination, desire, and intelligence is always the one who comes out the victor.

Cus D'Amato

#20. Thoughts are ghosts of emotions.

Raheel Farooq

#21. Political activity alone cannot make a man free. Back of the ballot, he must have property, industry, skill, economy, intelligence, and character.

Booker T. Washington

#22. A sovereign of high character and intelligence must be able to know the right man, should place the responsibility on him, and expect results.

Sun Tzu

#23. Charm will win you friends;
character will help you keep them.
Intelligence will win you success;
wisdom will help you keep it.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#24. Intelligence without character is a dangerous thing.

Gloria Steinem

#25. [Since] a player controls every character, it is that player's intelligence that dictates the character's goals and actions, not an arbitrary number on a character sheet. Thus, in a sense, the player _is_ the character's "intelligence score"!

Greg Stafford

#26. A man is known to his dog by the smell, to his tailor by the coat, to his friend by the smile; each of these know him, but how little or how much depends on the dignity of the intelligence. That which is truly and indeed characteristic of the man is known only to God.

John Ruskin

#27. Voting in particular is an embarrassment, being a public display of weak character and low intelligence. Let us face the truth: Democracy, like spitting in public or the Roman games, is the proper activity of the lower intellectual and moral classes. It amounts to collusion in one's own suckering.

Fred Reed

#28. She had learnt long ago that common sense, intelligence, good-nature, and strength of character were unimportant in comparison with a pretty face.

W. Somerset Maugham

#29. Keeping the commandments ... is at once a demonstration of our intelligence, our knowledge, our character, and our wisdom.

Stephen L. Richards

#30. Winning takes character and intelligence. It is the most important thing you can do because it's a reaffirmation of your character.

Pete Carril

#31. Scientific greatness is less a matter of intelligence than character; if the scientist refuses to compromise or accept incomplete answers and persists in grappling the most basic and difficult questions.

Albert Einstein

#32. We should strive to welcome change and challenges, because they are what help us grow. With out them we grow weak like the Eloi in comfort and security. We need to constantly be challenging ourselves in order to strengthen our character and increase our intelligence.

H.G.Wells

#33. You character and action will reveal your purpose.

Debasish Mridha

#34. The millions of dollars which we devote every year to high-school education are, for the most part, money spent for the retarding of intelligence, the discouragement of efficiency, the stunting of character.

Bernard Iddings Bell

#35. Andrei Yefimych is extremely fond of intelligence and honesty, but he lacks character and faith in his right to organize an intelligent and honest life around him.

Anton Chekhov

#36. For an educated person, intelligence is important but character is more important.

Debasish Mridha

#37. When your intelligence don't tell you something ain't right, your conscience gives you a tap you on the shoulder and says 'Hold on'. If it don't, you're a snake.

Elvis Presley

#38. It is no proof of a man's understanding to be able to affirm whatever he pleases; but to be able to discern that what is true is true, and that what is false is false, this is the mark and character of intelligence.

Emanuel Swedenborg

#39. What a man is: that is to say, personality, in the widest sense of the word; under which are included health, strength, beauty, temperament, moral character, intelligence, and education.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#40. I listen to them freely and with all the respect merited by their intelligence, their character, their knowledge, reserving always my incontestable right of criticism and censure.

Mikhail Bakunin