Quotes About Ethics

There is no crime of which I do not deem myself capable.

That is the true definition of sin; when knowing right you do the lower, ah, then you sin. Where there is no knowledge, sin is not present.

Knowledge itself is never dangerous, it is how that knowledge is used that is dangerous

Science sans conscience n' est que le ruine de l'âme. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruine of the soule.

Knowledge is but an instrument, which the profligate and the flagitious may use as well as the brave and the just.

A boy's mind is not so easily sullied as a girl's.... Undesirable knowledge is not an equal shock to the moral nature.

The knowledge of evil tempteth to its commission.

In fact, it's the very impersonality of impersonal knowledge that renders such knowledge the most ethically potent of all.

If you cannot attain knowledge without torturing a dog, you must do without knowledge.

[Misquotation; not by Einstein.] If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker. [Apparently remorseful for his role in the development of the atom bomb.]

Most successful entrepreneurs share their knowledge as a way of giving back. They do not demand compensation. Those who do are usually trying to take advantage of you.

Knowledge is not a loose-leaf notebook of facts. Above all, it is a responsibility for the integrity of what we are, primarily of what we are as ethical creatures.

Technology is nothing but an expression of human values. It's not neutral, it's not about efficiency, it's about people's values and their knowledge.

It is not lawful or proper for you to know everything.

I could justify violence only in this extreme case, to save the last living knowledge of Buddhism itself.

Errors of knowledge are not breaches of morality; no proper moral code can demand infallibility or omniscience.

Knowledge is a matter of science and no dishonesty or conceit whatsoever is permissible. What is required is definitely the reverse - honesty and modesty.

"Lawyers Are": By law's dark by-ways he has stored his mind with wicked knowledge on how to cheat mankind.

Knowledge is truthful only if it's based in morality.

That virtue only makes our bliss below, And all our knowledge is ourselves to know.

I am an atheist and that's it. I believe there's nothing we can know except that we should be kind to each other and do what we can for other people.

Every act intends some good.

Teach honesty by all means - you do know what it is, don't you?

Knowledge cannot be maintained without character.