Student Success Statement

"Character is higher than intellect."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Reflection: This quote means to me that what a person is like is valued more than how smart they are. A person can be vain and annoying but have the highest IQ in the world, chances are that he does not have many friends or acquaintances he gets along with. People like to hang around with people who are good to them and do not act to arrogant. People with a higher intellect do not always result in having a better character if they do not use their intelligence to be a better person. Therefore i believe that Emerson is trying to say that in society a subjects personality will be more weighted to the result of your meeting than the height of intellect.