“Those who have the privilege to know have the duty to act, and in that action are the seeds of new knowledge.”
More from Einstein on Ethics
“True human progress is based less on the inventive mind than on the conscience of such men as Brandeis.~ Albert Einstein”
“Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.”
“The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.”
Others on Ethics
Ayn Rand
9 quotes“Sacrifice is the surrender of that which you value in favor of which you dont”
Saint Augustine
8 quotes“Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicke...”
David Hume
7 quotes“Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.”
Dante
6 quotes“The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crisis maintain their neutrality.”
Thomas Paine
4 quotes“A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue but moderation in pri...”
Pope Benedict XVI
4 quotes“Purity of heart is what enables us to see.”
Marcus Aurelius
4 quotes“The pride which is proud of want of pride is the most intolerable of all.”
Adam Smith
3 quotes“In the common degree of the moral, there is no virtue. Virtue is excellence.”
Percy Shelley
3 quotes“All spirits are enslaved which serve things evil.”
Immanuel Kant
3 quotes“...I am never to act otherwise than so that I could also will that my maxim should become universal law.”
Alexander Pope
3 quotes“Order is heaven's first law.”
Neal Shusterman
3 quotes“But remember that good intentions pave many roads. Not all of them lead to hell.”