Edward Teller Quotes

Conviction is the conscience of the mind.

You have to do what is real and what is right and what is good and what you believe in. It doesn't mean it's always going to work. It doesn't. But when it does, it is truthful and forever.

I'm no saint but I do believe in what is right.

A good man, is a good man, whether in this church, or out of it.

To be good, you need to believe in what you're doing.

Integrity is the core of our character. Without integrity, we have a weak foundation upon which to build other Christlike characteristics.

I still have great faith in what is good and right in all of us.

Righteousness is on our side.

Beauty is what I believe in. I want to act and make decisions based on what I believe.

Faith just doesn't have anything to do with what I'm doing as a scientist. It's nice if you can believe in God, because then you see more of a purpose in things. Even if you don't, though, it doesn't mean that there's no purpose. It doesn't mean that there's no goodness. I think that there's a virtue in being good in and of itself. I think that one can work with the world we have.

In the darkest hour through which a human soul can pass, whatever else is doubtful, this at least is certain. If there be no God and no future state, yet even then it is better to be generous than selfish, better to be chaste than licentious, better to be true than false, better to be brave than to be a coward.

Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical.

A good man with a good conscience doesn't walk so fast.

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

Throughout my life, I have always tried to do what is right.

There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.

Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority.

A woman of honor should never suspect another of things she would not do herself.

A man should be upright, not be kept upright.

Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

It is not easy to do something good, but it is extremely difficult to do something bad.

It seems to me that if God calls us to anything it's to a life of integrity.

Elegance is inferior to virtue.

I do what I believe.