Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration.
The greater good is achieved by not only telling people what they need to know, but also filling them with a sense of empathy and love.
A proper respect for nature means that you can't pollute the air, poison the rivers and chop down the forests indiscriminately without suffering greatly.
Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being.
The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.
Better understanding of the natural world not only enhances all of us as human beings, but can also be harnessed for the better good, leading to improved health and quality of life.
The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read.
Mencius said that human nature is good. I disagree with that.
The natural desire of good men is knowledge.