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Top 176 Albert Einstein Quotes

December 27, 2020 by Krista Leave a Comment

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

― Albert Einstein

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

― Albert Einstein

“The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.”

― Albert Einstein

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

― Albert Einstein

“Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.”

― Albert Einstein

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

― Albert Einstein

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”

― Albert Einstein

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

― Albert Einstein

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

― Albert Einstein

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

― Albert Einstein

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

― 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

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

― Albert Einstein

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

― Albert Einstein

“I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.”

― 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

“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

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

― Albert Einstein

“If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.”

― Albert Einstein

“Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.”

― Albert Einstein

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

― Albert Einstein

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

― 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

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

― Albert Einstein

“If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?”

― Albert Einstein

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

― Albert Einstein

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

― 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

“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

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

― 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

“Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.”

― Albert Einstein

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

― 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

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

― Albert Einstein

“The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.”

― Albert Einstein

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

― 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

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

― Albert Einstein

“I love to travel, but hate to arrive.”

― 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

“The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.”

― Albert Einstein

“Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.”

― Albert Einstein

“You can’t blame gravity for falling in love.”

― 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

“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

“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

“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”

― Albert Einstein

“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.”

― Albert Einstein

“Coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous.”

― Albert Einstein

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

― Albert Einstein

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

― Albert Einstein

“Never lose a holy curiosity.”

― Albert Einstein

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

― Albert Einstein

“People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.”

― Albert Einstein

“Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.”

― Albert Einstein

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

― Albert Einstein

“No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.”

― Albert Einstein

“I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.”

― 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

“It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.”

― Albert Einstein

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

― Albert Einstein

“In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself.”

― Albert Einstein

“Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one’s living at it.”

― Albert Einstein

“An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.”

― 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 think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.”

― Albert Einstein

“Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.”

― Albert Einstein

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

― 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

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

― Albert Einstein

“When the solution is simple, God is answering.”

― Albert Einstein

“Before God we are all equally wise – and equally foolish.”

― Albert Einstein

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

― Albert Einstein

“Love is a better teacher than duty.”

― Albert Einstein

“Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.”

― Albert Einstein

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

― Albert Einstein

“The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.”

― 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 only real valuable thing is intuition.”

― Albert Einstein

“Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today’s events.”

― 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

“The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal.”

― Albert Einstein

“The only source of knowledge is experience.”

― Albert Einstein

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

― Albert Einstein

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

― 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

“Joy in looking and comprehending is nature’s most beautiful gift.”

― Albert Einstein

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

― Albert Einstein

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

― Albert Einstein

“You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.”

― Albert Einstein

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

― Albert Einstein

“Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.”

― Albert Einstein

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

― Albert Einstein

“The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.”

― Albert Einstein

“The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.”

― 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

“If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.”

― Albert Einstein

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

― 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

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

― Albert Einstein

“God does not play dice.”

― Albert Einstein

“We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.”

― Albert Einstein

“Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.”

― Albert Einstein

“You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I’ve only ever had one.”

― Albert Einstein

“I have just got a new theory of eternity.”

― 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

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

― Albert Einstein

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

― 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

“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.”

― Albert Einstein

“God always takes the simplest way.”

― Albert Einstein

“Isn’t it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?”

― 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

“I never think of the future – it comes soon enough.”

― Albert Einstein

“Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.”

― 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

“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

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

― Albert Einstein

“Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.”

― Albert Einstein

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

― Albert Einstein

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

― Albert Einstein

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

― 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

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

― 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 high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.”

― Albert Einstein

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

― 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

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

― Albert Einstein

“The faster you go, the shorter you are.”

― Albert Einstein

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

― Albert Einstein

“Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.”

― Albert Einstein

“I want to go when I want. It is tasteless to prolong life artificially. I have done my share; it is time to go. I will do it elegantly.”

― Albert Einstein

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

― Albert Einstein

“One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.”

― Albert Einstein

“It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.”

― Albert Einstein

“Morality is of the highest importance – but for us, not for God.”

― Albert Einstein

“Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.”

― 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

“It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.”

― Albert Einstein

“You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.”

― 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 attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.”

― Albert Einstein

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

― Albert Einstein

“God may be subtle, but he isn’t plain mean.”

― Albert Einstein

“The man of science is a poor philosopher.”

― Albert Einstein

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

― Albert Einstein

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

― Albert Einstein

“True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.”

― Albert Einstein

“I very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express it in words afterwards.”

― Albert Einstein

“We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.”

― Albert Einstein

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

― 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

“I am a deeply religious nonbeliever – this is a somewhat new kind of religion.”

― Albert Einstein

“It was the experience of mystery – even if mixed with fear – that engendered religion.”

― 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

“All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man’s actions.”

― Albert Einstein

“Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.”

― Albert Einstein

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

― 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

“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

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

― 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

“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.”

― Albert Einstein

“The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.”

― Albert Einstein

“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.”

― 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

“Information is not knowledge.”

― 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

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

― Albert Einstein

“Mozart’s music is so pure and beautiful that I see it as a reflection of the inner beauty of the universe.”

― Albert Einstein

“As far as I’m concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.”

― 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 environment is everything that isn’t me.”

― Albert Einstein

“Force always attracts men of low morality.”

― Albert Einstein

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