Quotation Explorer - 'Albert Einstein'

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right. - Albert Einstein
Even on the most solemn occasions I got away without wearing socks and hid that lack of civilization in high boots - Albert Einstein
Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible. - Albert Einstein
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind. - Albert Einstein
The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, an almost fanatical love of justice, and the desire for personal independence - these are the features of Jewish tradition that make me thank my stars that I belong to it. - Albert Einstein
When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about. - Albert Einstein
In the view of such harmony in the cosmos which I, with my limited human mind, am able to recognize, there are yet people who says there is no God. But what makes me really angry is that they quote me for support of such views. (The Expanded Quotable Einstein, Princeton University, page 214) - Albert Einstein
I have little patience with scientists who take a board of wood, look for its thinnest part, and drill a great number of holes where drilling is easy. - Albert Einstein
It is this mythical, or rather symbolic, content of the religious traditions which is likely to come into conflict with science. This occurs whenever this religious stock of ideas contains dogmatically fixed statements on subjects which belong in the domain of science. - Albert Einstein
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. - Albert Einstein
The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle. - Albert Einstein
If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut. - Albert Einstein
The aim (of education) must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals who, however, can see in the service to the community their highest life achievement. - Albert Einstein
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. - Albert Einstein
Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value. - Albert Einstein
Concern for man himself and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavor. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations. - Albert Einstein
The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible. - Albert Einstein
Truth is what stands the test of experience. - Albert Einstein
Creativity is the residue of time wasted. - Albert Einstein
Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous. - Albert Einstein
I have deep faith that the principle of the universe will be beautiful and simple. - Albert Einstein
The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution! - Albert Einstein
Imagination is the highest form of research. - Albert Einstein
When I was young I found out that the big toe always ends up making a hole in a sock.So I stopped wearing socks. - Albert Einstein
I would not think that philosophy and reason themselves will be man's guide in the foreseeable future; however, they will remain the most beautiful sanctuary they have always been for the select few. - Albert Einstein
Ego=1/Knowledge" More the knowledge lesser the ego, lesser the knowledge more the ego. - Albert Einstein
It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry. - Albert Einstein
Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. It is an open secret that the dangerous increase of crime in this counrty is closely related with this. - Albert Einstein
I find the idea quite intolerable that an electron exposed to radiation should choose of its own free will not only its moment to jump off but its direction. In that case I would rather be a cobbler, or even an employee in a gaming house, than a physicist. - Albert Einstein
Humor, motivations, moral,gods,energy,secrecy - Albert Einstein
I do not believe in the immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern without any superhuman authority behind it. - Albert Einstein
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship. - Albert Einstein
God is subtle but he is not malicious. - Albert Einstein
Dancers are the athletes of God. - Albert Einstein
When all think alike, no one thinks very much. - Albert Einstein
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. - Albert Einstein
The value of a man resides in what he gives and not in what he is capable of receiving. - Albert Einstein
Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty. - Albert Einstein
The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking. - Albert Einstein
The most aggravating thing about the younger generation is that I no longer belong to it. - Albert Einstein
Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow? - Albert Einstein
Information is not knowledge. - Albert Einstein
The formulation of the problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill. - Albert Einstein
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it. - Albert Einstein
He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice. - Albert Einstein
Life is just like a game,First you have to learn rules of the game,And then play it better then any one else. - Albert Einstein
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. - Albert Einstein
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex ... it takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction. - Albert Einstein
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods. - Albert Einstein
Racism is a disease of white people - Albert Einstein
If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things. - Albert Einstein
I see my life in terms of music. - Albert Einstein
The human spirit must prevail over technology. - Albert Einstein
I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking - Albert Einstein
Combinatory play seems to be the essential feature in productive thought. - Albert Einstein
Computers are incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid. Human beings are incredibly slow, inaccurate, and brilliant. Together they are powerful beyond imagination. - Albert Einstein
No one does anything right in life, until they realize that they are making a mistake - Albert Einstein
I never came upon any of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking. - Albert Einstein
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it. - Albert Einstein
Student: Dr. Einstein, Aren't these the same questions as last year's [physics] final exam?Dr. Einstein: Yes; But this year the answers are different. - Albert Einstein
I believe in intuitions and inspirations...I sometimes FEEL that I am right. I do not KNOW that I am. - Albert Einstein
Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events - Albert Einstein
We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings. - Albert Einstein
Out of clutter, find simplicity. - Albert Einstein
Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either. - Albert Einstein
You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war. - Albert Einstein
Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler. - Albert Einstein
True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist - Albert Einstein
So long as there are men there will be wars. - Albert Einstein
We experience ourselves our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. - Albert Einstein
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all art and science. - Albert Einstein
It is in fact nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curious of inquiry. It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty. - Albert Einstein
It is mathematics that offers the exact natural sciences a certain measure of security which, without mathematics, they could not attain. - Albert Einstein
I am ceaselessly occupied with the question of the constitution of radiation This quantum question is so incredibly important and difficult that everyone should busy himself on it. - Albert Einstein
The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them. - Albert Einstein
God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically. - Albert Einstein
He who cherishes the values of culture cannot fail to be a pacifist. - Albert Einstein
We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive. - Albert Einstein
If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign? - Albert Einstein
The single most important decision any of us will ever make is whether or not to believe the universe is friendly. - Albert Einstein
A man's value to the community depends primarily on how far his feelings, thoughts, and actions are directed towards promoting the good of his fellows. - Albert Einstein
Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police. - Albert Einstein
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible. - Albert Einstein
Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever. - Albert Einstein
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts. - Albert Einstein
I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn. - Albert Einstein
The tragedy of life is what dies in the hearts and souls of people while they live. - Albert Einstein
The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It's the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and science. Whoever does not know it can no longer wander, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed. - Albert Einstein
Phantasie ist wichtiger als Wissen, denn Wissen ist begrenzt. - Albert Einstein
Somebody who only reads newspapers and at best books of contemporary authors looks to me like an extremely near-sighted person who scorns eyeglasses. He is completely dependent on the prejudices and fashions of his times, since he never gets to see or hear anything else. - Albert Einstein
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving. - Albert Einstein
Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them. - Albert Einstein
For an idea that does not first seem insane, there is no hope. - Albert Einstein
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. - Albert Einstein
Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts. - Albert Einstein
One must divide one's time between politics and equations. But our equations are much more important to me, because politics is for the present, while our equations are for eternity. - Albert Einstein
How was I able to live alone before, my little everything? Without you I lack self-confidence, passion for work, and enjoyment of life--in short, without you, my life is no life.[Written to his wife, Mileva] - Albert Einstein
Curiosity is more important than knowledge. - Albert Einstein
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social enviroment. Most people are incapable of forming such opinions."(Essay to Leo Baeck, 1953) - Albert Einstein
There is no great discoveries and advances, as long as there is an unhappy child on earth. / Ne možemo govoriti o napretku čovječanstva, dok na svijetu ima nesretne djece. - Albert Einstein
When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity. - Albert Einstein
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler. - Albert Einstein
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value. - Albert Einstein
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. - Albert Einstein
You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat. - Albert Einstein
The laws of gravity cannot be held responcible for people falling in love. - Albert Einstein
It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure. - Albert Einstein
Nothing happens until something moves. - Albert Einstein
All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field. - Albert Einstein
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence. - Albert Einstein
Creativity is contagious. Pass it on. - Albert Einstein
Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly. - Albert Einstein
All of science is nothing more than the refinement of everyday thinking. - Albert Einstein
Ein Freund ist ein Mensch, der die Melodie deines Herzen kennt und sie dir vorspielt, wenn du sie vergessen hast. - Albert Einstein
Oh juventud nunca dejes de pensar... - Albert Einstein
We believe that an informed citizenry will act for life and not for death. - Albert Einstein
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking. - Albert Einstein
Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere. - Albert Einstein
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking. - Albert Einstein
The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms. - Albert Einstein
Every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving. - Albert Einstein
Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed. - Albert Einstein
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. - Albert Einstein
Science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain value judgements of all kinds remain necessary. - Albert Einstein
I don't try to imagine a personal God; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it. - Albert Einstein
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters - Albert Einstein
Play is the highest form of research. - Albert Einstein
The point is to develop the childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition and to guide the child over to important fields for society. Such a school demands from the teacher that he be a kind of artist in his province. - Albert Einstein
Nothing in the world makes people so afraid as the influence of independent-minded people. - Albert Einstein
My sense of God is my sense of wonder about the Universe. - Albert Einstein
We still do not know one-thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us. - Albert Einstein
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them! - Albert Einstein
Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions. - Albert Einstein
It is harder to crack prejudice than an atom. - Albert Einstein
The framing of a problem is often far more essential than its solution - Albert Einstein
Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. - Albert Einstein
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. - Albert Einstein
The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives. - Albert Einstein
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. - Albert Einstein
Only a life lived for others is a life worth while. - Albert Einstein
The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it. - Albert Einstein
Bureaucracy is the death of all sound work. - Albert Einstein
No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong. - Albert Einstein
People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. - Albert Einstein
Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy. - Albert Einstein
A society's competitive advantage will come not from how well its schools teach the multiplication and periodic tables, but from how well they stimulate imagination and creativity. - Albert Einstein
Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death. - Albert Einstein
Never underestimate your own ignorance. - Albert Einstein
Do you remember how electrical currents and 'unseen waves' were laughed at? The knowledge about man is still in its infancy. - Albert Einstein
I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity. - Albert Einstein
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices, but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence and fulfills the duty to express the results of his thought in clear form. - Albert Einstein
God reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists. - Albert Einstein
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater. - Albert Einstein
Deux choses sont infinies : l’Univers et la bêtise humaine. Mais, en ce qui concerne l’Univers, je n’en ai pas encore acquis la certitude absolue. - Albert Einstein
The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive - Albert Einstein
Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. - Albert Einstein
Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools. - Albert Einstein
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. - Albert Einstein
Time is an illusion. - Albert Einstein
The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it. - Albert Einstein
Imagination ist alles. Es ist die vorschau des lebens auf die kommenden attraktionen. - Albert Einstein
Is it not better for a man to die for a cause in which he believes, such as peace, than to suffer for a cause in which he does not believe, such as war? - Albert Einstein
After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in esthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest sceintists are always artists as well. - Albert Einstein
Any fool can know. The point is to understand. - Albert Einstein
Everything has changed. . . except the way we think. The aim [of education] must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals, who, however, see in the service of community their highest life problems - Albert Einstein
Imagination is more important than knowledge... - Albert Einstein
One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community. - Albert Einstein
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. - Albert Einstein
Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury - to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best for both the body and the mind. - Albert Einstein
To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself. - Albert Einstein
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character. - Albert Einstein
You never fail until you stop trying. - Albert Einstein
It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception. - Albert Einstein
I love Humanity but I hate humans - Albert Einstein
It is my view that the vegetarian manner of living, by its purely physical effect on the human temperament, would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind. - Albert Einstein
the real purpose of socialism is precisely to overcome and advance beyond the predatory phase of human development - Albert Einstein
It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer. - Albert Einstein
Love is a better master than duty. - Albert Einstein
A foolish faith in authority is the worst enemy of truth. - Albert Einstein
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death. - Albert Einstein
"My life is a simple thing that would interest no one. It is a known fact that I was born and that is all that is necessary. - Albert Einstein
The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the Prohibition law. For nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced - Albert Einstein
If one tries to navigate unknown waters one runs the risk of shipwreck - Albert Einstein
Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves. - Albert Einstein
The right to search for the truth implies also a duty; one must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be the truth. - Albert Einstein
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. - Albert Einstein
The important thing is not to stop questioning. - Albert Einstein
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. - Albert Einstein
La vie c’est comme la bicyclette : quand on arrête de pédaler on tombe. - Albert Einstein
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe. - Albert Einstein
The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination. - Albert Einstein
If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music. - Albert Einstein
To my mind to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder. - Albert Einstein
At any rate, I am convinced that He [God] does not play dice. - Albert Einstein
The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe. - Albert Einstein
No one but a theorist believes his theory; everyone puts faith in a laboratory result but the experimenter himself. - Albert Einstein
Man is here for the sake of other men - above all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends. - Albert Einstein
Our task must be to free ourselves... by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and it's beauty. - Albert Einstein
Matter tells space how to curve, space tells matter how to move. - Albert Einstein
The word 'God' is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honorable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation, no matter how subtle, can (for me) change this. - Albert Einstein
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. - Albert Einstein
One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike -- and yet it is the most precious thing we have. - Albert Einstein
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value. - Albert Einstein
The conscientious objector is a revoultionary. On deciding to disobey the law he sacrifices his personal interests to the most important cause of working for the betterment of society. - Albert Einstein
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one. - Albert Einstein
I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. - Albert Einstein
The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with joy are goodness, beauty, and truth. - Albert Einstein
Mathematics is the poetry of logic and the music of reason. - Albert Einstein
I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university. - Albert Einstein
If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith. - Albert Einstein
Each of us visits this Earth involuntarily, and without an invitation. For me, it is enough to wonder at the secrets. - Albert Einstein
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is. - Albert Einstein
ماهي القوى العظمى في هذا العالم؟ إنها مضاعفة إهتماماتك - Albert Einstein
The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. - Albert Einstein
Perfection of means and confusion of ends seems to characterize our age. - Albert Einstein
In scientific thinking are always present elements of poetry. Science and music requires a thought homogeneous. - Albert Einstein
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal. - Albert Einstein
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible. - Albert Einstein
We can not solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them - Albert Einstein
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish. - Albert Einstein
It is the theory that decides what we can observe. - Albert Einstein
"I want to know Gods thoughts.... all the rest are just details - Albert Einstein
To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder. - Albert Einstein
If someone can enjoy marching to music in rank and file, I can feel only contempt for him; he has received his large brain by mistake, a spinal cord would have been enough. - Albert Einstein
The strength of the Constitution lies entirely in the determination of each citizen to defend it. Only if every single citizen feels duty bound to do his share in this defense are the constitutional rights secure. - Albert Einstein
I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be. - Albert Einstein
A true genius admits that he/she knows nothing. - Albert Einstein
We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made. - Albert Einstein
We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality. - Albert Einstein
The state was made for man, not man for state. - Albert Einstein
It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom. Without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail. - Albert Einstein
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions. - Albert Einstein
"Imagination is more important than knowledge. - Albert Einstein
The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge. - Albert Einstein
You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created. - Albert Einstein
If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it. - Albert Einstein
I am thankful for all of those who said NO to me. It’s because of them I’m doing it myself. - Albert Einstein
Do you really believe that the moon isn’t there when nobody looks? - Albert Einstein
If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales. - Albert Einstein
It is only to the individual that a soul is given. - Albert Einstein
Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs. - Albert Einstein
Life isn't worth living, unless it is lived for someone else. - Albert Einstein
As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding it. - Albert Einstein
Never memorize something that you can look up. - Albert Einstein
Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind. - Albert Einstein
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. - Albert Einstein
Look to the stars and from them learn. - Albert Einstein
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. - Albert Einstein
Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. - Albert Einstein
Small is the number of them that see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts. - Albert Einstein
PARAPHRASE: Genius is not that you are smarter than everyone else. It is that you are ready to receive the inspiration. - Albert Einstein
We know from daily life that we exist for other people first of all, for whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends. - Albert Einstein
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough. - Albert Einstein
If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it? - Albert Einstein
Adversity introduces a man to himself. - Albert Einstein
You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother. - Albert Einstein
Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population. - Albert Einstein
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. - Albert Einstein
I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious. - Albert Einstein
It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs. - Albert Einstein
I believe that Gandhi’s views were the most enlightened of all the political men in our time. We should strive to do things in his spirit: not to use violence in fighting for our cause, but by non-participation in anything you believe is evil. - Albert Einstein
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom. - Albert Einstein
"My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind. - Albert Einstein
"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. - Albert Einstein
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving. - Albert Einstein
The measure of intelligence is the ability to change. - Albert Einstein
It's not that I'm so smart , it's just that I stay with problems longer. - Albert Einstein
The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing. - Albert Einstein
A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death. - Albert Einstein
If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut - Albert Einstein
The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything except our thinking. Thus, we are drifting toward catastrophe beyond conception. We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive. - Albert Einstein
The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self. - Albert Einstein
Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized. - Albert Einstein
I received your letter of June 10th. I have never talked to a Jesuit priest in my life and I am astonished by the audacity to tell such lies about me. From the viewpoint of a Jesuit priest I am, of course, and have always been an atheist. - Albert Einstein
If I had known they were going to do this, I would have become a shoemaker. - Albert Einstein
Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience. - Albert Einstein
If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism. - Albert Einstein
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. - Albert Einstein
I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots. - Albert Einstein
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax. - Albert Einstein
Although I am a typical loner in my daily life, my awareness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has prevented me from feelings of isolation. - Albert Einstein
Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect, as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper. - Albert Einstein
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. - Albert Einstein
Those who have the privilege to know have the duty to act, and in that action are the seeds of new knowledge. - Albert Einstein
I prefer to make up my own quotes and attribute them to very smart people, so that I can use them to win arguments - Albert Einstein
No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love? - Albert Einstein
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. - Albert Einstein
Theories should be as simple as possible, but not simpler. - Albert Einstein
When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again. - Albert Einstein
Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding. - Albert Einstein
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. - Albert Einstein
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough. - Albert Einstein
The individual must not merely wait and criticize, he must defend the cause the best he can. The fate of the world will be such as the world deserves. - Albert Einstein
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed. - Albert Einstein
That which is impenetrable to us really exists. Behind the secrets of nature remains something subtle, intangible, and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion. - Albert Einstein
I want to know God's thoughts; the rest are details. - Albert Einstein
If there is any religion that could cope with modern scientific needs, it would be Buddhism. - Albert Einstein
Wisdom is not a product of schooling, but of the life- long attempt to acquire it. - Albert Einstein
One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year. - Albert Einstein
Black holes are where God divided by zero. - Albert Einstein
An empty stomach is not a good political adviser. - Albert Einstein
The more success the quantum theory has, the sillier it looks. How nonphysicists would scoff if they were able to follow the odd course of developments! - Albert Einstein
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