Albert Einstein
Quotes by Albert Einstein
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
— 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
Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.
— Albert Einstein
Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age.
— Albert Einstein
It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.
— Albert Einstein
Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
— Albert Einstein
True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.
— Albert Einstein
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
— Albert Einstein
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
— Albert Einstein
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
— 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
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
I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.
— Albert Einstein
The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.
— Albert Einstein
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
— 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
Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
— Albert Einstein
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
— Albert Einstein
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
— Albert Einstein
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
— Albert Einstein
The environment is everything that isn't me.
— Albert Einstein
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
— Albert Einstein
The only source of knowledge is experience.
— Albert Einstein
It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.
— 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
God always takes the simplest way.
— Albert Einstein
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
— 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
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
— Albert Einstein
The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
— Albert Einstein
When the solution is simple, God is answering.
— 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
God does not play dice.
— Albert Einstein
I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.
— Albert Einstein
I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.
— Albert Einstein
We should take care not to make the intellect our god it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
— Albert Einstein
Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.
— Albert Einstein
God may be subtle, but he isn't plain mean.
— Albert Einstein
An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.
— 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
Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.
— Albert Einstein
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
— Albert Einstein
Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.
— Albert Einstein
It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.
— Albert Einstein
You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one.
— Albert Einstein
A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin what else does a man need to be happy?
— 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
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
— Albert Einstein
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
— Albert Einstein
Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.
— Albert Einstein
The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
— Albert Einstein
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
— Albert Einstein
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.
— 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
The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
— Albert Einstein
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
— Albert Einstein
Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
— Albert Einstein
Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.
— Albert Einstein
Information is not knowledge.
— Albert Einstein
Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.
— 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
The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
— 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
If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
— Albert Einstein
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
— Albert Einstein
The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
— Albert Einstein
Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.
— Albert Einstein
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
— Albert Einstein
Love is a better teacher than duty.
— Albert Einstein
You can't blame gravity for falling in love.
— Albert Einstein
People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.
— Albert Einstein
Force always attracts men of low morality.
— Albert Einstein
You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.
— 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
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
— Albert Einstein
Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.
— Albert Einstein
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
— 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
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
Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
— 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
Peace cannot be kept by force it can only be achieved by understanding.
— Albert Einstein
I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.
— Albert Einstein
Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.
— Albert Einstein
Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.
— Albert Einstein
The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
— 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
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
— 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
I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion.
— Albert Einstein
True religion is real living living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.
— 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
Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.
— Albert Einstein
Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.
— Albert Einstein
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
— Albert Einstein
No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right a single experiment can prove me wrong.
— Albert Einstein
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
— 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
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
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
— Albert Einstein
The man of science is a poor philosopher.
— Albert Einstein
All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.
— 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
Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
— Albert Einstein
Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.
— Albert Einstein
It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
— Albert Einstein
The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.
— 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
Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.
— Albert Einstein
Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
— 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
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
— Albert Einstein
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.
— 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 know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
— Albert Einstein
It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
— 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
You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
— Albert Einstein
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
— Albert Einstein