"As far as I'm concerned, I prefer..." - Quote by Albert Einstein
As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
More by Albert Einstein
“Conventional words or other signs have to be sought for laboriously only in a second stage, where the associative play already referred to is sufficiently established and can be reproduced at will.”
“The Press, which is mostly controlled by vested interests, has an excessive influence on public opinion.”
“I thought of that while riding my bicycle.”
More on Morality
“Man's duty is to improve himself; to cultivate his mind; and, when he finds himself going astray, to bring the moral law to bear upon himself.”
“Far more violence has been done in obeying the law than in breaking the law.”
“He [Stephen Douglas] is blowing out the moral lights around us, when he contends that whoever wants slaves has a right to hold them; that he is penetrating, so far as lies in his power, the human soul, and eradicating the light of reason and the love of liberty, when he is in every possible way preparing the public mind, by his vast influence, for making the institution of slavery perpetual and national.”
More on Ethics
“Integrity is not so much what we do as much as who we are.”
“The thief steals from himself. The swindler swindles himself. For the real price is knowledge and virtue, whereof wealth and credit are signs. These signs, like paper money, may be counterfeited or stolen, but that which they represent, namely, knowledge and virtue, cannot be counterfeited or stolen.”
“But tell me, this physician of whom you were just speaking, is he a moneymaker, an earner of fees, or a healer of the sick?”