This is an amazing quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Many people are extremely intelligent and contribute greatly to our society,
but some who possess great minds do not possess great character. Character is
deemed higher than intellect, but some do not believe such. Character above all
is an important trait expressing both your interior and exterior qualities that
are used to distinguish you from others. For example, if you have an online
linked bank account and leave for work you may not suspect that an extremely intelligent
individual who can contribute a great deal to benefit society, but instead is illegally
accessing your bank account and transferring all of your hard earned money into
his account for his own benefit and is going to use that money for improper
things. Where does that place him? As a proper individual or as a malevolent individual?
He is indeed malevolent despite his intelligence because character greatly
exceeds the importance of intelligence when it comes to how you are
distinguished in society.
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