Famous Albert Einstein Quotations

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"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."
by 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."
by Albert Einstein
"Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized."
by Albert Einstein
"Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death."
by Albert Einstein
"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
by Albert Einstein
"It is only to the individual that a soul is given."
by Albert Einstein
"Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character."
by Albert Einstein
"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
by Albert Einstein
"If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor."
by Albert Einstein
"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?"
by 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."
by Albert Einstein
"Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish."
by 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."
by Albert Einstein
"A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new."
by Albert Einstein
"The only real valuable thing is intuition."
by Albert Einstein
"The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives."
by 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."
by Albert Einstein
"Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler."
by Albert Einstein
"We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings."
by Albert Einstein
"We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality."
by Albert Einstein
"We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive."
by Albert Einstein
"What is the meaning of human life, or of organic life altogether? To answer this question at all implies a religion. Is there any sense then, you ask, in putting it? I answer, the man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life."
by Albert Einstein
"When the solution is simple, God is answering."
by 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."
by 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."
by Albert Einstein
"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."
by Albert Einstein
"Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts."
by Albert Einstein
"God always takes the simplest way."
by 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."
by 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."
by Albert Einstein
"Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions."
by Albert Einstein
"It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely."
by Albert Einstein
"Love is a better teacher than duty."
by 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."
by Albert Einstein
"Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced."
by Albert Einstein
"Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing."
by Albert Einstein
"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."
by 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."
by Albert Einstein
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
by 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."
by Albert Einstein
"My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God."
by Albert Einstein
"It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity."
by Albert Einstein
"It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed."
by Albert Einstein
"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."
by Albert Einstein
"It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education."
by Albert Einstein
"If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts."
by Albert Einstein
"Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them!"
by Albert Einstein
"Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age."
by Albert Einstein
"Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either."
by Albert Einstein
"The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits."
by Albert Einstein
"The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while."
by Albert Einstein
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science."
by Albert Einstein
"The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax."
by Albert Einstein
"Any intelligent 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."
by Albert Einstein
"Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be."
by Albert Einstein
"You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else."
by Albert Einstein
"If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed."
by Albert Einstein
"'I want to know Gods thoughts.... all the rest are just details"
by Albert Einstein
"'Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."
by 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."
by 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."
by Albert Einstein
"'Imagination is more important than knowledge."
by Albert Einstein
"...One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought."
by Albert Einstein
"A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depends on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the measure as I have received and am still receiving."
by Albert Einstein
"A human being is part of a whole, called by us the Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest--a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."
by Albert Einstein
"A human being is part of a whole, called by us the 'Universe,' a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest--a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."
by Albert Einstein
"A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be."
by Albert Einstein
"A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death."
by 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."
by Albert Einstein
"A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem."
by Albert Einstein
"A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind."
by Albert Einstein
"A person starts to live when he can live outside himself."
by Albert Einstein
"A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?"
by Albert Einstein
"A storm broke loose in my mind."
by Albert Einstein
"A theory can be proved by experiment but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory."
by Albert Einstein
"A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?"
by 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."
by Albert Einstein
"All our thoughts and concepts are called up by sense-experiences and have a meaning only in reference to these sense-experiences. On the other hand, however, they are products of the spontaneous activity of our minds they are thus in no wise logical consequences of the contents of these sense-experiences. If, therefore, we wish to grasp the essence of a complex of abstract notions we must for the one part investigate the mutual relationships between the concepts and the assertions made about them for the other, we must investigate how they are related to the experiences."
by Albert Einstein
"All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual."
by Albert Einstein
"All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree."
by 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."
by Albert Einstein
"All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions."
by Albert Einstein
"An empty stomach is not a good political advisor."
by Albert Einstein
"An empty stomach is not a good political adviser."
by Albert Einstein
"Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking."
by Albert Einstein
"Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves."
by Albert Einstein
"Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools."
by Albert Einstein
"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."
by Albert Einstein
"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new"
by Albert Einstein
"Any power must be an enemy of mankind which enslaves the individual by terror and force, whether it arises under the Fascist or the Communist flag. All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded to the individual."
by 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."
by 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."
by 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."
by 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"
by 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."
by Albert Einstein
"As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue."
by Albert Einstein
"As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable."
by Albert Einstein
"As long as Nazi violence was unleashed only, or mainly, against the Jews, the rest of the world looked on passively and even treaties and agreements were made with the patently criminal government of the Third Reich.... The doors of Palestine were closed to Jewish immigrants, and no country could be found that would admit those forsaken people. They were left to perish like their brothers and sisters in the occupied countries. We shall never forget the heroic efforts of the small countries, of the Scandinavian, the Dutch, the Swiss nations, and of individuals in the occupied part of Europe who did all in their power to protect Jewish lives."
by Albert Einstein
"At any rate, I am convinced that He God does not play dice."
by Albert Einstein
"At any rate, I am convinced that He [God] does not play dice."
by Albert Einstein


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