"A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend 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
"A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on."
--Albert Einstein
"A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be."
--Albert Einstei
"A man's ethical behavior 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
"A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem."
--Albert Einstein
"A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new."
--Albert Einstein
"A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?"
--Albert Einstein
"A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?"
--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 scientists are always artists as well."
--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
"All our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike-and yet it is the most precious thing we have."
--Albert Einstein
"All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree."
--Albert Einstein
"All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us."
--Albert Einstein
Topic: Value
"All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual."
--Albert Einstein
"All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them."
--Albert Einstein
"All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions."
--Albert Einstein
"An empty stomach is not a good political adviser."
--Albert Einstein
Topic: Hunger
"An empty stomach is not a good political advisor."
--Albert Einstein
"An oligarchy of private capital cannot be effectively checked even by a democratically organized political society because under existing conditions, private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information."
--Albert Einstein
"Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools."
--Albert Einstein
"Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius-and a lot of courage-to move in the opposite direction."
--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
"Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves."
--Albert Einstein
"Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either."
--Albert Einstein
"As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue."
--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
"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
"At any rate, I am convinced that He [God] does not play dice."
--Albert Einstein
"At the same time, as social beings, we are moved in the relations with our fellow beings by such feelings as sympathy, pride, hate, need for power, pity, and so on."
--Albert Einstein
"Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish."
--Albert Einstein
"But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts."
--Albert Einstein
"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."
--Albert Einstein
"Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations."
--Albert Einstein
"Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age."
--Albert Einstein
"Considered logically this concept is not identical with the totality of sense impressions referred to; but it is an arbitrary creation of the human (or animal) mind."
--Albert Einstein
Topic: Violence
"Degeneracy follows every autocratic system of violence, for violence inevitably attracts moral inferiors. Time has proven that illustrious tyrants are succeeded by scoundrels."
--Albert Einstein
"Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater."
--Albert Einstein
"Do you believe in immortality? No, and one life is enough for me"
--Albert Einstein
"During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief."
--Albert Einstein
"Each makes this cosmos and its construction the pivot of his emotional life, in order to find in this way peace and security which he can not find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience."
--Albert Einstein
"Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school."
--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
"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
"Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized."
--Albert Einstein
"Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for insects as well as for the stars. Human beings, vegetables or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance."
--Albert Einstein
"Everything should be as simple as it is, but not simpler."
--Albert Einstein
"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler."
--Albert Einstein
Topic: Simplicity
"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."
--Albert Einstein
"Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted."
--Albert Einstein
"Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom."
--Albert Einstein
"Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts."
--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
"Force always attracts men of low morality."
--Albert Einstein
"Formal symbolic representation of qualitative entities is doomed to its rightful place of minor significance in a world where flowers and beautiful women abound."
--Albert Einstein
"Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as this walked the earth in flesh and blood."
--Albert Einstein
"God always takes the simplest way."
--Albert Einstein
"God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically."
--Albert Einstein
Topic: God
"God is clever, but not dishonest."
--Albert Einstein
"God may be subtle, but he isn't plain mean."
--Albert Einstein
"Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love."
--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
Topic: Adversity
"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."
--Albert Einstein
"He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed."
--Albert Einstein
Topic: Wonder
"He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed."
--Albert Einstein
Topic: Conformity And Nonconformity
"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
"He who joyfully marches to music 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
"Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!"
--Albert Einstein
"How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of goodwill! In such a place even I would be an ardent patriot."
--Albert Einstein
"How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people."
--Albert Einstein
"Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it."
--Albert Einstein
"Humanity has every reason to place the proclaimers of high moral standards and values above the discoverers of objective truth. What humanity own to personalities like Buddha, Moses, and Jesus ranks for me higher than all the achievements of the of the inquiring constructive mind."
--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
"I assert that the cosmic religious experience is the strongest and the noblest driving force behind scientific research."
--Albert Einstein
"I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind."
--Albert Einstein
"I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty."
--Albert Einstein
"I consider it important, indeed urgently necessary, for intellectual workers to get together, both to protect their own economic status and, also, generally speaking, to secure their influence in the political field."
--Albert Einstein
"I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it."
--Albert Einstein
"I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil."
--Albert Einstein
"I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed."
--Albert Einstein
"I do not know with what weapons World War 3 will be fought, but World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones."
--Albert Einstein
"I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference!"
--Albert Einstein
"I have just got a new theory of eternity."
--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
"I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves - such an ethical basis I call more proper for a herd of swine. The ideals which have lighted me on my way and time after time given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Truth, Goodness, and Beauty."
--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
"I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism have brought me to my ideas."
--Albert Einstein
Topic: Solitude
"I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity."
--Albert Einstein
"I made one great mistake in my life-when I signed the letter to President Roosevelt recommending that atom bombs be made but there was some justification-the danger that the Germans would make them."
--Albert Einstein
"I maintain that cosmic religiousness is the strongest and most noble driving force of scientific research."
--Albert Einstein
"I never think of the future - it comes soon enough."
--Albert Einstein
Topic: Future
"I never think of the future. It comes soon enough."
--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
"I think that a particle must have a separate reality independent of the measurements. That is an electron has spin, location and so forth even when it is not being measured. I like to think that the moon is there even if I am not looking at it."
--Albert Einstein
"I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion."
--Albert Einstein
"I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details."
--Albert Einstein
"I want to know God's thoughts... the rest are details"
--Albert Einstein
Topic: Success
"If A equal success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut."
--Albert Einstein
"If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut."
--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
"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
"If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith."
--Albert Einstein
"If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture, let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies... It would be a sad situation if the wrapper were better than the meat wrapped inside it."
--Albert Einstein
"If my theory of relativity is proven correct, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German and Germany will declare that I am a Jew."
--Albert Einstein
"If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say I am a German and Germany will declare that I am a Jew."
--Albert Einstein
"If one were to take that goal out of out of its religious form and look merely at its purely human side, one might state it perhaps thus: free and responsible development of the individual, so that he may place his powers freely and gladly in the service of all mankind."
--Albert Einstein
"If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed."
--Albert Einstein
"If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts."
--Albert Einstein
"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?"
--Albert Einstein
Topic: Truth
"If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor."
--Albert Einstein
Topic: Imagination
"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
--Albert Einstein
Topic: Imagination
"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
--Albert Einstein
"Imagination is more important than knowledge..."
--Albert Einstein
"In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same."
--Albert Einstein
"In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself."
--Albert Einstein
"In that way imagination and intelligence enter into our existence in the part of servants of the primary instincts."
--Albert Einstein
"Information is not knowledge."
--Albert Einstein
"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
--Albert Einstein
"Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them."
--Albert Einstein
"Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them."
--Albert Einstein
"Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?"
--Albert Einstein
Topic: Conformity
"It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed."
--Albert Einstein
"It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity."
--Albert Einstein
"It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education"
--Albert Einstein
"It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man."
--Albert Einstein
"It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For that he does not really need a college. He can learn them from books. The value of an education is a liberal arts college is not learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think something that cannot be learned from textbooks."
--Albert Einstein
"It is only to the individual that a soul is given."
--Albert Einstein
"It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely."
--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
"It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge."
--Albert Einstein
Topic: Observation
"It is the theory that decides what can be observed."
--Albert Einstein
"It is theory that decides what can be observed."
--Albert Einstein
"It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid."
--Albert Einstein
Topic: Science
"It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature."
--Albert Einstein
"It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion."
--Albert Einstein
"It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion."
--Albert Einstein
"It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer."
--Albert Einstein
"Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift."
--Albert Einstein
"Keep on sowing your seed, for you never know which will grow - perhaps it all will."
--Albert Einstein
"Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be."
--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
"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning."
--Albert Einstein
"Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized."
--Albert Einstein
"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere."
--Albert Einstein
"Long hair minimizes the need for barbers; socks can be done without; one leather jacket solves the coat problem for many years; suspenders are superfluous."
--Albert Einstein
"Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better."
--Albert Einstein
"Love is a better teacher than duty."
--Albert Einstein
"Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler."
--Albert Einstein
"Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events."
--Albert Einstein
"Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God."
--Albert Einstein
"Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone."
--Albert Einstein
"Most people say that is it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character."
--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
Topic: Nationalism
"Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind."
--Albert Einstein
"Nationalism is an infantile sickness. It is the measles of the human race."
--Albert Einstein
"Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it."
--Albert Einstein
"Never lose a holy curiosity."
--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
"Never regard your study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs."
--Albert Einstein
"No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong."
--Albert Einstein
"No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it."
--Albert Einstein
"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."
--Albert Einstein
"Not until the creation and maintenance of decent conditions of life for all people are recognized and accepted as a common obligation of all people and all countries - not until then shall we, with a certain degree of justification, be able to speak of humankind as civilized."
--Albert Einstein
"Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced."
--Albert Einstein
"Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth."
--Albert Einstein
"Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature."
--Albert Einstein
"On the other hand, the concept owes its meaning and its justification exclusively to the totality of the sense impressions which we associate with it."
--Albert Einstein
"Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them."
--Albert Einstein
"One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility."
--Albert Einstein
"One must not attempt to justify them, but rather to sense their nature simply and clearly."
--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
"One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion."
--Albert Einstein
"Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile."
--Albert Einstein
"Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person."
--Albert Einstein
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
--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 its beauty."
--Albert Einstein
"Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding."
--Albert Einstein
"People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results."
--Albert Einstein
"Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age"
--Albert Einstein
"Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem-in my opinion-to characterize our age."
--Albert Einstein
"Politics is a pendulum whose swings between anarchy and tyranny are fueled by perpetually rejuvenated illusions."
--Albert Einstein
"Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity."
--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 every one, best both for the body and the mind."
--Albert Einstein
"Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them."
--Albert Einstein
"Problems cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them."
--Albert Einstein
"Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas."
--Albert Einstein
"Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like anhour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute.THAT'S relativity."
--Albert Einstein
"Quantum mechanics is very impressive. But an inner voice tells me that it is not yet the real thing. The theory yields a lot, but it hardly brings us any closer to the secret of the Old One. In any case I am convinced that He doesn't play dice"
--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
"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
--Albert Einstein
"Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it"
--Albert Einstein
"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."
--Albert Einstein
Topic: Religion
"Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind."
--Albert Einstein
"Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds."
--Albert Einstein
"Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature."
--Albert Einstein
Topic: Bargain
"Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing."
--Albert Einstein
"Strange is our situation here upon earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that man is here for the sake of other men."
--Albert Einstein
"Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value."
--Albert Einstein
"Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal"
--Albert Einstein
"That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God."
--Albert Einstein
"The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while."
--Albert Einstein
"The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat."
--Albert Einstein
"The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits."
--Albert Einstein
"The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion."
--Albert Einstein
Topic: Class
"The distinctions separating the social classes are false; in the last analysis they rest on force."
--Albert Einstein
"The environment is everything that isn't me."
--Albert Einstein
"The faster you go, the shorter you are."
--Albert Einstein
"The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead."
--Albert Einstein
"The foundation of morality should not be made dependent on myth nor tied to any authority lest doubt about the myth or about the legitimacy of the authority imperil the foundation of sound judgment and action."
--Albert Einstein
"The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge."
--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
"The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax."
--Albert Einstein
Topic: Taxation
"The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax."
--Albert Einstein
"The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule."
--Albert Einstein
"The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule..."
--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
"The important thing is not to stop questioning."
--Albert Einstein
Topic: Curiosity
"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality."
--Albert Einstein
"The legs are the wheels of creativity."
--Albert Einstein
"The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science."
--Albert Einstein
"The minority, the ruling class at present, has the schools and press, usually the Church as well, under its thumb. This enables it to organize and sway the emotions of the masses, and make its tool of them."
--Albert Einstein
"The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind."
--Albert Einstein
"The more success the quantum theory has, the sillier it looks"
--Albert Einstein
Topic: Mystery
"The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science."
--Albert Einstein
Topic: Mystery
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious."
--Albert Einstein
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science."
--Albert Einstein
"The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life."
--Albert Einstein
"The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible."
--Albert Einstein
"The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible."
--Albert Einstein
Topic: War
"The next World War will be fought with stones."
--Albert Einstein
"The only real valuable thing is intuition."
--Albert Einstein
"The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once."
--Albert Einstein
"The only source of knowledge is experience."
--Albert Einstein
"The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education."
--Albert Einstein
"The only way to escape the personal corruption of praise is to go on working."
--Albert Einstein
"The opinion prevailed among advanced minds that it was time that belief should be replaced increasingly by knowledge; belief that did not itself rest on knowledge was superstition, and as such had to be opposed."
--Albert Einstein
"The pioneers of a warless world are the young men (and women) who refuse military service."
--Albert Einstein
"The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them."
--Albert Einstein
"The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder."
--Albert Einstein
"The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives."
--Albert Einstein
"The real problem is in the hearts and minds of men. It is not a problem of physics but of ethics. It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil from the spirit of man."
--Albert Einstein
"The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking... the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker."
--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
"The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. The religion which based on experience, which refuses dogmatic. If there's any religion that would cope the scientific needs it will be Buddhism..."
--Albert Einstein
"The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal."
--Albert Einstein
"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."
--Albert Einstein
"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them."
--Albert Einstein
"The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them."
--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
"The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination."
--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
"The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive."
--Albert Einstein
"The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking."
--Albert Einstein
"The wireless telegraph is not difficult to understand. The ordinary telegraph is like a very long cat. You pull the tail in New York, and it meows in Los Angeles. The wireless is the same, only without the cat."
--Albert Einstein
"The words of language, as they are written or spoken, do not seem to play any role in my mechanism of thought. The physical entities which seem to serve as elements in thought are certain signs and more or less clear images."
--Albert Einstein
Topic: Evil
"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
"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
"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
"There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there."
--Albert Einstein
"There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance."
--Albert Einstein
"There was this huge world out there, independent of us human beings and standing before us like a great, eternal riddle, at least partly accessible to our inspection and thought. The contemplation of that world beckoned like a liberation."
--Albert Einstein
"They come into being not through demonstration but through revelation, through the medium of powerful personalities."
--Albert Einstein
"Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler."
--Albert Einstein
Topic: Patriotism
"This heroism at command, this senseless violence, this accursed bombast of patriotism--how intensely I despise them!"
--Albert Einstein
"Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions."
--Albert Einstein
"To know what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty... this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness."
--Albert Einstein
"To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself."
--Albert Einstein
"To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization."
--Albert Einstein
"To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science."
--Albert Einstein
"To the Master's honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton's ground."
--Albert Einstein
"To understand the world one must not be worrying about one's self."
--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
"True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist."
--Albert Einstein
"True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness."
--Albert Einstein
"Truth is what stands the test of experience."
--Albert Einstein
"Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value."
--Albert Einstein
Topic: Success
"Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value."
--Albert Einstein
Topic: Success And Failure
"Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value."
--Albert Einstein
Topic: Human Nature
"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."
--Albert Einstein
"We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race."
--Albert Einstein
Topic: Humanity
"We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings."
--Albert Einstein
"We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them."
--Albert Einstein
"We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself."
--Albert Einstein
"We must be prepared to make heroic sacrifices for the cause of peace that we make ungrudgingly for the cause of war. There is no task that is more important or closer to my heart."
--Albert Einstein
"We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive."
--Albert Einstein
Topic: Intelligence
"We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality."
--Albert Einstein
"Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character"
--Albert Einstein
"When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute-and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity."
--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
"When the solution is simple, God is answering."
--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
"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
"Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science."
--Albert Einstein
"Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters."
--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
"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods."
--Albert Einstein
"Why does this applied science, which saves work and makes life easier, bring us so little happiness? The simple answer runs: Because we have not yet learned to make sensible use of it."
--Albert Einstein
"Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people."
--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
"You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one."
--Albert Einstein
"You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created."
--Albert Einstein
"You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war."
--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
