Einstein Quotes

While it is true that an inherently free and scrupulous person may be destroyed, such an individual can never be enslaved or used as a blind tool.

The trouble with the younger generation is that they don't stay young for very long.

Humiliation and mental oppression by ignorant and selfish teachers wreak havoc in the youthful mind that can never be undone and often exert a baleful influence in later life.

It is humankind's duty to respect all life, not only animals have feelings but even also trees and plants.

It is just as important to make knowledge live and keep it alive as to solve specific problems.

Each possession I own is but a stone around my neck.

I see in Nature a magnificent structure... that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility.

To know what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty... this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness.

Long live impudence. It was my guardian angel in this world.

Mere thinking cannot reveal to us the highest purpose.

The greatest knowledge a person can possess is the address of the local library.

The ways of creation are wrapt in mystery. We may only marvel, and bow our head.

Conviction is a good motive, but a bad judge.

I no longer believed in the known God of the Bible, but rather in the mysterious God expressed in nature.

The most difficult part about understanding something is that we understand it all.

The essentials of being a person of my type lies precisely in what they think and how they think, not in what they do. Your thoughts shape you.

Inner freedom is an infrequent gift of nature and a worthy object for the individual.

What I see in Nature is a grand design that we can understand only imperfectly, one with which a responsible person must look at with humility.

It is not so important where one settles down. The best thing is to follow your instincts without too much reflection.

Even the scholars in various lands have been acting as if their brains had been amputated.

It is important to foster individuality, for only the individual can produce the new ideas.

God gave me the stubbornness of a mule and a fairly keen scent.

I believe that the first step in the setting of a real external world is the formation of the concept of bodily objects and of bodily objects of various kinds.

Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.

Intuitive powers played a central role in my scientific work, not wild speculation, yet a valued resource when no other approach was available.

Engineering is not only study of 45 subjects but it is moral studies of intellectual life. Make things as simple as possible..but not simpler.

Degeneracy follows every autocratic system of violence, for violence inevitably attracts moral inferiors. Time has proven that illustrious tyrants are succeeded by scoundrels.

Mere unbelief in a personal God is no philosophy at all.

Though our conduct seems so very different from that of the higher animals, the primary instincts are much alike in them and in us.

To invent something, all you need is imagination and a big pile of junk.

I now see the necessity of a beginning.

You are right in speaking of the moral foundations of science, but you cannot turn around and speak of the scientific foundations of morality.

I don't try to imagine a personal God; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.

If you've never failed, you've never tried anything new.

All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

In every true searcher of Nature there is a kind of religious reverence.

A religious person is devout in the sense that he has no doubt about the significance of those superpersonal objects and goals which neither require nor are capable of rational foundation

Anonymity is no excuse for stupidity.

All our thinking is of this nature, a free play with concepts.

A world government with powers adequate to guarantee security is not a remote ideal for the distant future. It is an urgent necessity if our civilization is to survive.

It is my belief that the problem of bringing peace to the world on a supranational basis will be solved only by employing Gandhi's method on a larger scale.

To dwell on the things that depress or anger us does not help in overcoming them. One must knock them down alone.

I have reached an age where if someone tells me to wear socks, I dont have to

If they want to see me, here I am. If they want to see my clothes, open my closet and show them my suits.

Not until we dare to regard ourselves as a nation, not until we respect ourselves, can we gain the esteem of others, or rather only then will it come of its own accord

The gravity is the first thing which you don't think

Without "ethical culture", there is no salvation for humanity.

A desk, some pads, a pencil, and a large basket -- to hold all of mu mistakes.

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

No fairer destiny could be allotted to any physical theory than that it should of itself point out the way to the introduction of a more comprehensive theory, in which it lives on as a limiting case.