“Character is higher than intellect.”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

This is a really short quote but it has a big meaning behind it. What this quote means is that character is a lot more important than intellect. It doesn’t matter if you have high intellect because if you have no character than it wouldn’t matter. It wouldn’t matter because someone who has a high intellect but no character can get thrown in jail. Someone with character is also know as a CTR person. A CTR person is someone who chooses the right even if everybody is against doing the right thing. Having a good character shows what type of person you are. Having character is more important than intellect because people will see you for who you really are. Having intellect doesn’t make you a good person it just means you are smart. Having character means that you are a good person.