Albert Einstein Quotes

The ideas that have lighted my way have been kindness, beauty and truth.

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

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

Life is a preparation for the future; and the best preparation for the future is to live as if there were none.

Time and space are modes by which we think and not conditions in which we live.

The real problem is in the hearts and minds of men. It is not a problem of physics but of ethics. It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.

God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.

The economic anarchy of capitalist society as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evil.

Since 99.362% of women love mustache rides, it seems only a fool would have a bare upper lip.

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.

Student is not a container you have to fill but a torch you have to light up.

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

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.

Arrows of hate have been aimed at me too, but they have never hit me, because somehow they belonged to another world with which I have no connection whatsoever.

The only real valuable thing is intuition.

A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.

I think that only daring speculation can lead us further and not accumulation of facts.

Was wirklich zählt, ist Intuition

The world is a dangerous place to live

Classical thermodynamics ... is the only physical theory of universal content which I am convinced ... will never be overthrown.

At least once a day, allow yourself the freedom to think and dream for yourself.

There is no salvation for civilization, or even the human race, other than the creation of a world government.

The only race I know is the human one.

Past is dead Future is uncertain; Present is all you have, So eat, drink and live merry.

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

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

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.

The state is made for man, not man for the state.... That is to say, the state should be our servant and not we its slaves

It would be better if you began to teach others only after you yourself have learned something.

What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the World.

Striving for social justice is the most valuable thing to do in life.

Men should continue to fight, but they should fight for things worth while, not for imaginary geographical lines, racial prejudices and private greed draped in the color's of patriotism.

In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not.

Problems cannot be solved by thinking within the framework in which the problems were created.

Our separation from each other is an optical illusion.

Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.

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

Knowledge is limited.

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.

A true genius admits that he/she knows nothing.

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

God is subtle but he is not malicious.

Nature conceals her secrets because she is sublime, not because she is a trickster.

As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.

If [quantum theory] is correct, it signifies the end of physics as a science.

Imagination without knowledge may create beautiful things, knowledge without imagination can create only perfect ones.

All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Earth is the insane asylum of the universe.

Example isn't another way to teach, it is the only way to teach.