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.

Matter is real to my senses, but they aren't trustworthy. If Galileo or Copernicus had accepted what they saw, they would never have discovered the movement of the earth and planets.

The greater the doubt, the greater the awakening

Am I, or the others crazy?

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

The world is a dangerous place to live

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

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.

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

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

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

Was wirklich zählt, ist Intuition

The only race I know is the human one.

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

The only real valuable thing is intuition.

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

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

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

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

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.

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

Knowledge is limited.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

Our separation from each other is an optical illusion.

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

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

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.

God is subtle but he is not malicious.

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

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

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

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