Albert Einstein Quotes about Personality

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But the personality that finally emerges is largely formed by the environment in which a man happens to find himself during his development, by the structure of the society in which he grows up, by the tradition of that

But the personality that finally emerges is largely formed by the environment in which a man happens to find himself during his development, by the structure of the society in which he grows up, by the tradition of that society, and by its appraisal of particular types of behavior.

Albert Einstein

Growing Up, Men, Personality

Albert Einstein (2016). “The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It”, p.9, Open Road Media

The cult of individual personalities is always, in my view, unjustified. To be sure, nature distributes her gifts variously among her children. But there are plenty of the well-endowed ones too, thank God, and I am firmly convinced that most of them live quiet, unregarded lives.

Albert Einstein

Children, Views, Personality

Albert Einstein (2011). “The World As I See It”, p.33, Open Road Media

They come into being not through demonstration but through revelation, through the medium of powerful personalities.

Albert Einstein

Powerful, Personality, Revelations

Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.20, Open Road Media

I always have a high regard for the individual and have an insuperable distaste for violence and clubmanship. All these motives made me into a passionate pacifist and anti-militarist. I am against any nationalism, even in the guise of mere patriotism. Privileges based on position and property have always seemed to me unjust and pernicious, as did any exaggerated personality cult.

Albert Einstein

Personality, Passionate, Unjust

"My Credo" by Albert Einstein, 1932.

I believe the most important mission of the state is to protect the individual and make it possible for him to develop into a creative personality.

Albert Einstein

Believe, Personality, Creative

Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.251, Princeton University Press

The really valuable thing in the pageant of human life seems to me not the political state, but the creative, sentient individual, the personality; it alone creates the noble and the sublime, while the herd as such remains dull in thought and dull in feeling.

Albert Einstein

Personality, Creative, Political

Albert Einstein (2011). “The World As I See It”, p.15, Open Road Media

What humanity owes to personalities like Buddha, Moses, and Jesus ranks for me higher than all the achievements of the enquiring and constructive mind.

Albert Einstein

Jesus, Inspiration, Personality

Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.70, Princeton University Press