“The true test of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops—no, but the kind of man the country turns out.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson Primary source“Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson Primary source“A little integrity is better than any career.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson Primary source“The only way to have real success in science, the field I’m familiar with, is to describe the evidence very carefully without regard to the way you feel it should be. If you have a theory, you must try to explain what’s good and what’s bad about it equally. In science, you learn a kind of standard integrity and honesty.”
— Richard Feynman Primary source“The best way to keep one’s word is not to give it.”
— Napoleon Bonaparte DisputedCivilization Virtue Politics Self-reliance