100+ Albert Einstein Quotes That Will Expand Your Mind
I never think of the future, it comes soon enough.
Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us, our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life.
The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom the emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause and stand wrapped in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
The only source of knowledge is experience.
When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity.
You never fail until you stop trying.
Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death
The bitter and the sweet come from the outside, the hard from within, from one's own efforts.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.
I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference!
The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking... the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.
I think and think for months and years, ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
The desire for guidance, love, and support prompts men to form the social or moral conception of God. This is the God of Providence, who protects, disposes, rewards, and punishes; the God who, according to the limits of the believer's outlook, loves and cherishes the life of the tribe or of the human race, or even or life itself; the comforter in sorrow and unsatisfied longing; he who preserves the souls of the dead. This is the social or moral conception of God.
Rejoice with your family in the beautiful land of life!
Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice.
God does not play dice with the universe.
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again.
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
Science with religion is lame; religion without science is blind. Science without religion is useful, religion with science is useless.
Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!
Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction.
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
Love is a better master than duty.
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
I believe in Spinoza's God, Who reveals Himself in the lawful harmony of the world, not in a God Who concerns Himself with the fate and the doings of mankind.
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there. All great discoveries have involved such a leap.
When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about.
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.
I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.
The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it.
To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
The most incomprehensible thing about our universe is that it can be comprehended.
Whether you can observe a thing or not depends on the theory which you use. It is the theory which decides what can be observed.
Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.
I want to know God's thoughts; the rest are details.
A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the universe.
Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.
So long as there are men there will be wars.
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.
Every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.
I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.
The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
Joy in looking and comprehending is nature’s most beautiful gift.
Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.
You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat. When asked to explain radio
The best way to cheer yourself is to cheer somebody else up.
If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
If A is success in life, then A = x + y + z. Work is x, play is y and z is keeping your mouth shut.
Only a life lived for others is a life worth while.
He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.
The difference between genius and stupidity is; genius has its limits.
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.
I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.
Truth is what stands the test of experience.
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
Try and penetrate with our limited means the secrets of nature and you will find that, behind all the discernible concatenations, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion. To that extent I am, in point of fact, religious.
Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.
You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
I take it to be true that pure thought can grasp the real, as the ancients had dreamed.
If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.
It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.
