Character Quotes by Albert Einstein

The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions.

— Albert Einstein

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

— Albert Einstein

Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.

— Albert Einstein

Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life.

— Albert Einstein

Without "ethical culture", there is no salvation for humanity.

— Albert Einstein

As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.

— Albert Einstein

Only strong characters can resist the temptation of superficial analysis.

— Albert Einstein

Force always attracts men of low morality.

— Albert Einstein

You are right in speaking of the moral foundations of science, but you cannot turn around and speak of the scientific foundations…

— Albert Einstein

...Intelligence and character of the masses are incomparably lower than the intelligence and character of the few who produce something valuable for…

— Albert Einstein

Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem - in my opinion - to characterize our age.

— Albert Einstein

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted in important affairs.

— Albert Einstein

Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.

— Albert Einstein

The great moral teachers of humanity were in a way artistic geniuses in the art of living.

— Albert Einstein

One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires…

— Albert Einstein

It is abhorrent to me when a fine intelligence is paired with an unsavory character.

— Albert Einstein

The foundation of morality should not be made dependent on myth nor tied to any authority lest doubt about the myth or…

— Albert Einstein

There is nothing divine about morality; it is a purely human affair. If people are good only because they fear punishment, and…

— Albert Einstein

A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man…

— Albert Einstein

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character; it becomes lack of power to act with courage proportionate to danger. All this must…

— Albert Einstein

The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend…

— Albert Einstein

Scientific greatness is less a matter of intelligence than character; if the scientist refuses to compromise or accept incomplete answers and persists…

— Albert Einstein

It strikes me as unfair, and even in bad taste, to select a few of them for boundless admiration, attributing superhuman powers…

— Albert Einstein

I believe that the horrifying deterioration in the ethical conduct of people today stems from the mechanization and dehumanization of our lives.…

— Albert Einstein

For the moral attitudes of a people that is supported by religion need always aim at preserving and promoting the sanity and…

— Albert Einstein

The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend…

— Albert Einstein

Common to all these types is the anthropomorphic character of their conception of God. In general, only individuals of exceptional endowments, and…

— Albert Einstein

“The cult of individuals is always, in my view, unjustified. To be sure, nature distributes her gifts unevenly among her children. But…

— Albert Einstein

I am a stronger follower of Veganism by principle, not just because of moral and aesthetic reasons. I truly believe in a…

— Albert Einstein

The conflict that exists today is no more than an old-style struggle for power, once again presented to mankind in semireligious trappings.…

— Albert Einstein

In their struggle for the ethical good, teachers of religion must have the stature to give up the doctrine of a personal…

— Albert Einstein

“Science has therefore been charged with undermining morality, but the charge is unjust. A man’s ethical behavior should be based effectually on…

— Albert Einstein

“But the scientist is possessed by the sense of universal causation. The future, to him, is every whit as necessary and determined…

— Albert Einstein

There is nothing divine about morality, it is a purely human affair.

— Albert Einstein

I have never obtained any ethical values from my scientific work.

— Albert Einstein

Most people say that is it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.

— Albert Einstein

Force always attracts men of low morality, and I believe it to be an invariable rule that tyrants of genius are succeeded…

— Albert Einstein

It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.

— Albert Einstein

In their struggle for the ethical good, teachers of religion must have the stature to give up the doctrine of a personal…

— Albert Einstein

It is an outcome of faith that nature-as she is perceptible to our five senses-takes the character of such a well formulated…

— Albert Einstein