Moral Examples Quotes

“How doth the little busy bee
Improve each shining hour,
And gather honey all the day
From every opening flower!”
― Isaac Watts, Divine and Moral Songs for Children

“[I]t is important to underscore Kant’s basic point that the finitude of the human condition implies a life-long need for concrete moral examples and personal exemplars. With his second argument in defence of examples, we are no longer talking about a strategy of moral education that is to be applied only to children and that can be dispensed with once they reach adulthood. Adult human beings do have stronger powers of reflection and abstraction than do children. But even adults remain saddled with ‘a discursive image-dependent understanding’, and thus they will always need examples in order to make the law visible to themselves.”
― Robert B. Louden