Albert Einstein's Quotes Collection

Albert Einstein's Quotes Collection (183 in 1) 

1.       Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

-          Albert Einstein

2.       A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

-          Albert Einstein

3.       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.

-          Albert Einstein

4.       The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.

-          Albert Einstein

5.       Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.

-          Albert Einstein

6.       A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?

-          Albert Einstein

7.       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.

-          Albert Einstein

8.      Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

-          Albert Einstein

9.       Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

-          Albert Einstein

10.   A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

-          Albert Einstein

11.    The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

-          Albert Einstein

12.    Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

-          Albert Einstein

13.    Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

-          Albert Einstein

14.    We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

-          Albert Einstein

15.    Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.

-          Albert Einstein

16.    If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

-          Albert Einstein

17.    Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

-          Albert Einstein

18.   All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.

-          Albert Einstein

19.    Imagination is more important than knowledge.

-          Albert Einstein

20.   It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

-          Albert Einstein

21.    Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

-          Albert Einstein

22.   The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

-          Albert Einstein

23.   Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

-          Albert Einstein

24.   No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.

-          Albert Einstein

25.   Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

-          Albert Einstein

26.   Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

-          Albert Einstein

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

-          Albert Einstein

28.   Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.

-          Albert Einstein

29.   Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

-          Albert Einstein

30.   Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

-          Albert Einstein

31.    A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?

-          Albert Einstein

32.   Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

-          Albert Einstein

33.   Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.

-          Albert Einstein

34.   I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

-          Albert Einstein

35.   Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

-          Albert Einstein

36.   If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

-          Albert Einstein

37.   The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

-          Albert Einstein

38.   Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

-          Albert Einstein

39.   Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.

-          Albert Einstein

40.   An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

-          Albert Einstein

41.    Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

-          Albert Einstein

42.   If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.

-          Albert Einstein

43.   It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.

-          Albert Einstein

44.   Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

-          Albert Einstein

45.   Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

-          Albert Einstein

46.   The only source of knowledge is experience.

-          Albert Einstein

47.   Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

-          Albert Einstein

48.   Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

-          Albert Einstein

49.   When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking.

-          Albert Einstein

50.   Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

-          Albert Einstein

51.    That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

-          Albert Einstein

52.   Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

-          Albert Einstein

53.   Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

-          Albert Einstein

54.   The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.

-          Albert Einstein

55.   In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.

-          Albert Einstein

56.   He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

-          Albert Einstein

57.   You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.

-          Albert Einstein

58.   I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.

-          Albert Einstein

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

-          Albert Einstein

60.   If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

-          Albert Einstein

61.    The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

-          Albert Einstein

62.   We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.

-          Albert Einstein

63.   Information is not knowledge.

-          Albert Einstein

64.   I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

-          Albert Einstein

65.   Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

-          Albert Einstein

66.   There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.

-          Albert Einstein

67.   Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.

-          Albert Einstein

68.   I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.

-          Albert Einstein

69.   It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

-          Albert Einstein

70.   The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

-          Albert Einstein

71.    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 suffice.

-          Albert Einstein

72.   Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.

-          Albert Einstein

73.   Love is a better teacher than duty.

-          Albert Einstein

74.   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.

-          Albert Einstein

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

-          Albert Einstein

76.   Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.

-          Albert Einstein

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

-          Albert Einstein

78.   The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.

-          Albert Einstein

79.   As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

-          Albert Einstein

80.  Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

-          Albert Einstein

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

-          Albert Einstein

82.   Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.

-          Albert Einstein

83.   When the solution is simple, God is answering.

-          Albert Einstein

84.   Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.

-          Albert Einstein

85.   Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!

-          Albert Einstein

86.   Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.

-          Albert Einstein

87.   God always takes the simplest way.

-          Albert Einstein

88.  I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion.

-          Albert Einstein

89.   I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.

-          Albert Einstein

90.   Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.

-          Albert Einstein

91.    Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

-          Albert Einstein

92.   I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

-          Albert Einstein

93.   The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

-          Albert Einstein

94.   It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

-          Albert Einstein

95.   Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

-          Albert Einstein

96.   You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.

-          Albert Einstein

97.   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.

-          Albert Einstein

98.   I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.

-          Albert Einstein

99.   The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.

-          Albert Einstein

100.                       Everything should be as simple as it is, but not simpler.

-          Albert Einstein

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

-          Albert Einstein

102.                        Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.

-          Albert Einstein

103.                        No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.

-          Albert Einstein

104.                        The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

-          Albert Einstein

105.                        Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

-          Albert Einstein

106.                        The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.

-          Albert Einstein

107.                        I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.

-          Albert Einstein

108.                       It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.

-          Albert Einstein

109.                        All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

-          Albert Einstein

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

-          Albert Einstein

111. You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

-          Albert Einstein

112. The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

-          Albert Einstein

113. Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

-          Albert Einstein

114. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

-          Albert Einstein

115. Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.

-          Albert Einstein

116. Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.

-          Albert Einstein

117. Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

-          Albert Einstein

118.The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.

-          Albert Einstein

119. There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.

-          Albert Einstein

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

-          Albert Einstein

121. God does not play dice.

-          Albert Einstein

122.It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

-          Albert Einstein

123.The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.

-          Albert Einstein

124.Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events.

-          Albert Einstein

125.The only real valuable thing is intuition.

-          Albert Einstein

126.I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.

-          Albert Einstein

127.True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

-          Albert Einstein

128.                        I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.

-          Albert Einstein

129.If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

-          Albert Einstein

130.                        Force always attracts men of low morality.

-          Albert Einstein

131. Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

-          Albert Einstein

132.I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.

-          Albert Einstein

133.The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

-          Albert Einstein

134.We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

-          Albert Einstein

135.The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

-          Albert Einstein

136.We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.

-          Albert Einstein

137.The faster you go, the shorter you are.

-          Albert Einstein

138.                        God may be subtle, but he isn't plain mean.

-          Albert Einstein

139.Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.

-          Albert Einstein

140.                        The environment is everything that isn't me.

-          Albert Einstein

141. The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

-          Albert Einstein

142.Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.

-          Albert Einstein

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

-          Albert Einstein

144.Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.

-          Albert Einstein

145.The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.

-          Albert Einstein

146.In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself.

-          Albert Einstein

147.It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.

-          Albert Einstein

148.                        Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.

-          Albert Einstein

149.The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.

-          Albert Einstein

150.                        I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.

-          Albert Einstein

151. Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.

-          Albert Einstein

152.Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

-          Albert Einstein

153.Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

-          Albert Einstein

154.There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.

-          Albert Einstein

155.It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.

-          Albert Einstein

156.Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.

-          Albert Einstein

157.Never lose a holy curiosity.

-          Albert Einstein

158.                        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.

-          Albert Einstein

159.Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.

-          Albert Einstein

160.                        We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.

-          Albert Einstein

161. You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one.

-          Albert Einstein

162.Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?

-          Albert Einstein

163.The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.

-          Albert Einstein

164.We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.

-          Albert Einstein

165.It is only to the individual that a soul is given.

-          Albert Einstein

166.One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.

-          Albert Einstein

167.Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler.

-          Albert Einstein

168.                        People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.

-          Albert Einstein

169.You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

-          Albert Einstein

170.                        Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.

-          Albert Einstein

171. Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age.

-          Albert Einstein

172.One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

-          Albert Einstein

173.The man of science is a poor philosopher.

-          Albert Einstein

174.The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.

-          Albert Einstein

175.The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal.

-          Albert Einstein

176.Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature.

-          Albert Einstein

177.Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.

-          Albert Einstein

178.                        It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.

-          Albert Einstein

179.It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.

-          Albert Einstein

180.                       The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

-          Albert Einstein

181.There could be no fairer destiny for any physical theory than that it should point the way to a more comprehensive theory in which it lives on as a limiting case.

-          Albert Einstein

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

-          Albert Einstein

183.                        I have just got a new theory of eternity.

-          Albert Einstein