“Character is higher than intellect.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

What Ralph is saying that character is higher than intellect because you could be intelligent but have a bad character. So you could be intelligent and have a good character. People always see your character in order to see if they like  you or not. People also see how intelligent you are but is not as important as your character because your character is better. For example if a person has a really bad attitude and they are really smart they are going to look bad because their intelligence doesn’t go with their character. Why be smart when you have  a really bad character it will just  not look good if your character is bad. So yes i agree with Ralph character is higher than intellect because character shows everything of you.