Albert Einstein Quotes

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


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


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


Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
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


Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Albert Einstein


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


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


Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
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


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


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


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


Everything should be as simple as it is, but not simpler.
Albert Einstein


Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.
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


God always takes the simplest way.
Albert Einstein


God does not play dice.
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 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


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


Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
Albert Einstein


I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion.
Albert Einstein


I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.
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


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 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 have just got a new theory of eternity.
Albert Einstein


I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.
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 live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
Albert Einstein


I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
Albert Einstein


I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.
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 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


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


If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
Albert Einstein


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

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.
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


Information is not knowledge.
Albert Einstein


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


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


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 my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
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 supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Albert Einstein


It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.
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


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


Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.
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


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


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


Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.
Albert Einstein


Never lose a holy curiosity.
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


Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.
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


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 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.
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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


Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.
Albert Einstein


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


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


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


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


The man of science is a poor philosopher.
Albert Einstein


The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
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 incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
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 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 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 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 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 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 two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if 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 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.
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


Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler.
Albert Einstein


Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.
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.
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To the Master's honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton's ground.
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


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


Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.
Albert Einstein


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


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 shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.
Albert Einstein


We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
Albert Einstein


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


Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
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


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


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


You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one.
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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 have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.
Albert Einstein