Albert Einstein Quotes

You have to color outside the lines once in a while if you want to make your life a masterpiece.

Games are the most elevated form of investigation.

Playfullness is the essential feature of productive thought.

True knowledge comes with deep understanding of a topic and its inner workings.

Everything what's inspiring has been created by one who could work in freedom

If you're not sure why you're doing something, you can never do enough of it. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

I didn't arrive at my understanding of the fundamental laws of the universe through my rational mind.

I want to be cremated so people won't come to worship at my bones.

Knowledge is dead; the school, however, serves the living.

Smoke like a chimney, work like a horse, eat without thinking, go for a walk only in really pleasant company.

You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created. Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. A life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

We are here for the sake of others

Mere praise of peace is easy and ineffective. What is needed is acitve participation in the fight against war and everything which leads to it.

What I seek to accomplish is simply to serve with my feeble capacity truth and justice, at the risk of pleasing no one.

If I were not a Jew I would be a Quaker.

It is high time the ideal of success should be replaced with the ideal of service.

It followed from the special theory of relativity that mass and energy are both but different manifestations of the same thing...

The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being.

If God has created the world, his primary worry was certainly not to make its understanding easy for us

Everything has changed, except our way of thinking.

One cannot learn so well as by experiencing it oneself.

Education is what is left after you've forgotten everything you've learned.

The theory must not contradict empirical facts.

The goal of pacifism is possible only though a supranational organization. To stand unconditionally for this cause is the criterion of true pacifism.

Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein was once asked how many feet are in a mile. Einstein's reply was "I don't know, why should I fill my brain with facts I can find in two minutes in any standard reference book?

Well-being and happiness never appeared to me as an absolute aim. I am even inclined to compare such moral aims to the ambitions of a pig.

What I'm really interested in is whether God could have made the world in a different way; that is, whether the necessity of logical simplicity leaves any freedom at all.

The legs are the wheels of creativity.

Human beings, in their thinking, feeling and acting are not free agents but are as causally bound as the stars in their motion.

Each ray of light moves in the coordinate system 'at rest' with the definite, constant velocity V independent of whether this ray of light is emitted by a body at rest or a body in motion.

The idea of a personal God is quite alien to me and seems even naïve.

Do you remember how electrical currents and 'unseen waves' were laughed at? The knowledge about man is still in its infancy.

It's very depressing to live in a time where it's easier to break an atom than a prejudice.

The great moral teachers of humanity were in a way artistic geniuses in the art of living.

To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.

From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that we are here for the sake of each other.

The concept of marriage must have been thought up by an unimaginative pig.

On the left-hand side of the field equation we may add the fundamental tensor guv, multiplied by a universal constant, -λ, at present unknown, without destroying the general covariance.

Even on the most solemn occasions I got away without wearing socks and hid that lack of civilization in high boots

I have little patience with scientists who take a board of wood, look for its thinnest part, and drill a great number of holes where drilling is easy.

How do I work? I grope.

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

It would seem that men always need some idiotic fiction in the name of which they can hate one another. Once it was religion. Now it is the State.

Don't become a seeker of success. Become a person of value.

Experts are just trained dogs.

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition.

Empathy is patiently and sincerely seeing the world through the other person's eyes. It is not learned in school; it is cultivated over a lifetime.

Creative energy is more critical than learning.

The flag is a symbol of the fact that man is still a herd animal.