Great Sayings: Albert Einstein Quotes

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

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.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.

We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

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.

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

The only source of knowledge is experience.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.

We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.

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.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.

Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.

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It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.

The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.

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.

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.

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute.

The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.

Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.

Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

The only real valuable thing is intuition.

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.

Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.

Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

There could be no fairer destiny for any physical theory than that it should point the way to a more comprehensive theory in which it lives on as a limiting case.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

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.

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.

I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.

It is only to the individual that a soul is given.

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.

No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.

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.

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.

A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?

It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

When the solution is simple, God is answering.

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.

To the Master's honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton's ground.

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?

God does not play dice.

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.

I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.

I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.

Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events.

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.