Albert Einstein Quotes

What is the meaning of human life, or of organic life altogether? To answer this question at all implies a religion.

Since I have introduced this term I had always a bad conscience. . . . I cannot help to feel it strongly and I am unable to believe that such an ugly thing should be realized in nature.

Don't do anything that goes against your conscience, even if your country says so.

The stupid are invincible.

I always found I was in the best of company, alone.

Politics is far more complicated than physics.

In the midst of every crisis, lies great opportunity.

If the rabble continues to occupy itself with you, then simply don't read that hogwash, but rather leave it for the reptile from whom it has been fabricated.

Figuring out how to think about the problem.

If you want to make your children brilliant, tell them fairy tales. If you want to make them more brilliant, tell them more fairy tales.

Genius simply cannot be reduced to a set of rules for anyone to follow.

Manager solves problems, leader prevents them.

We are all very ignorant. What happens is that not all ignore the same things.

As long as I have any choice in the matter, I shall live only in a country where civil liberty, tolerance and equality of all citizens before the law prevail.

Then there are the fanatical atheists whose intolerance is of the same kind as the intolerance of the religious fanatics and comes from the same source.

It is both auspicious and peaceful for people to choose vegetarinism.

Money only appeals to selfishness and always tempts its owners irresistibly to abuse it. Can anyone imagine Moses, Jesus, or Gandhi armed with the money-bags of Carnegie?

Reason is intuition's servant.

The right to search for truth implies also a duty.

Conscious man, to be sure, has at all times been keenly aware that life is an adventure, that life must, forever, be wrested from death.

I asked myself childish questions and proceeded to answer them.

War cannot be humanized. It can only be abolished.

The truth isn't always a blinding light. Sometimes it's a deep and dazzling darkness, that illuminates - and burns - just as surely.

I would teach peace rather than war, love rather than hate.

In the middle of adversity there is great opportunity.

The same thinking and actions that created our problems cannot be used to solve them.

Philosophers play with the word, like a child with a doll.... It does not mean that everything in life is relative.

You must be aware that most men (and also not only a few women) are by nature not monogamous. This nature makes itself even more forceful when tradition and circumstance stand in an individual's way.

The stakes are immense, the task colossal, the time is short. But we may hope - we must hope - that man's own creation, man's own genius, will not destroy him.

Israel is the only place on earth where Jews have the possibility to shape public life according to their own traditional ideals.

The beauty of it is that we have to content ourselves with the recognition of the miracle, beyond which there is no legitimate way out.

Don't second guess the mistakes you've made, others will do that for you. Make things as simple as possible, but not simpler.

The most important method of education always has consisted of that in which the pupil was urged to actual performance.

My only genius talent is inquisitiveness.

That little word 'we' I mistrust and here's why: No man of another can say, 'He is I.' Behind all agreement lies something amiss All seeming accord cloaks a lurking abyss.

I agree with Schopenhauer that one of the most powerful motives that attracts people to science and art is the longing to escape from everyday life.

Some men spend a lifetime in an attempt to comprehend the complexities of women. Others pre-occupy themselves with somewhat simpler tasks, such as understanding the theory of relativity!

God has given me a mule-like stubbornness to stick with a difficult problem and the intuitive powers to conceptualize complex hypothetical situations in my mind.

Watch the stars, and from them learn.

The majority of the stupid is invincible and guaranteed for all time. The terror of their tyranny, however, is alleviated by their lack of consistency.

We sleep 1/3 of our lives away.

There does, in fact, appear to be a plan.

So would a Being, endowed with higher insight and more perfect intelligence, watching man and his doings, smile about man's illusion that he was acting according to his own free will.

I came- though the child of entirely irreligious (Jewish) parents - to a deep religiousness, which, however, reached an abrupt end at the age of twelve.

People are like bicycles. They can keep their balance only as long as they keep moving.

You can move through life seeing nothing as a miracle, or seeing everything as a miracle.

At present every coachman and every waiter argues about whether or not the relativity theory is correct.

What I value in life is quality rather then quantity.

The human mind has first to construct forms, independently, before we can find them in things.

Those instrumental goods which should serve to maintain the life and health of all human beings should be produced by the least possible labour of all.