Albert Einstein - Quotes 1-100
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Albert Einstein
Conviction is a good motive, but a bad judge.
Albert Einstein
For a scientist, altering your doctrines when the facts change is not a sign of weakness.
Albert Einstein
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler.
Albert Einstein
Two things are infinite: The universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.
Albert Einstein
If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what then is an empty desk a sign?
Albert Einstein
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.
Albert Einstein
The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think.
Albert Einstein
Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.
Albert Einstein
It's not that I'm so smart, I just stick with problems longer.
Albert Einstein
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Albert Einstein
The difference between genius and stupidity is; genius has its limits.
Albert Einstein
Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.
Albert Einstein
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.
Albert Einstein
If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.
Albert Einstein
I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.
Albert Einstein
Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
Albert Einstein
Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.
Albert Einstein
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
Albert Einstein
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
Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.
Albert Einstein
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
I have repeatedly said that in my opinion the idea of a personal God is a childlike one. You may call me an agnostic, but I do not share the crusading spirit of the professional atheist whose fervor is mostly due to a painful act of liberation from the fetters of religious indoctrination received in youth. I prefer an attitude of humility corresponding to the weakness of our intellectual understanding of nature and of our own being.
Albert Einstein
Intelligent life on other planets? I'm not even sure there is on earth!
Albert Einstein
Knowledge exists in two forms - lifeless, stored in books, and alive, in the consciousness of men. The second form of existence is after all the essential one; the first, indispensable as it may be, occupies only an inferior position.
Albert Einstein
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Albert Einstein
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
Albert Einstein
If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
Albert Einstein
A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.
Albert Einstein
Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.
Albert Einstein
Light is faster than sound... that is why a person looks bright until he speaks.
Albert Einstein
There are two important things for full success in life:
1. Donīt tell everything you know.
Albert Einstein
A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?
Albert Einstein
Never memorize something that you can look up.
Albert Einstein
I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.
Albert Einstein
The distinction between past, present and future is an illusion, but a very persistent one.
Albert Einstein
The important thing is never to stop questioning.
Albert Einstein
The significant problems we face cannot be solved by the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.
Albert Einstein
If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z. X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.
Albert Einstein
If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.
Albert Einstein
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop questioning.
Albert Einstein
Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.
Albert Einstein
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
Albert Einstein
Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.
Albert Einstein
Black holes are where God divided by zero.
Albert Einstein
You never fail until you stop trying.
Albert Einstein
The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.
Albert Einstein
The best way to cheer yourself is to cheer somebody else up.
Albert Einstein
The woman who follows the crowd will usually believe that I said this.
Albert Einstein
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
Albert Einstein
If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, then man would have only four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man.
Albert Einstein
I fully agree with you about the significance and educational value of methodology as well as history and philosophy of science. So many people today - and even professional scientists - seem to me like somebody who has seen thousands of trees but has never seen a forest. A knowledge of the historic and philosophical background gives that kind of independence from prejudices of his generation from which most scientists are suffering. This independence created by philosophical insight is - in my opinion - the mark of distinction between a mere artisan or specialist and a real seeker after truth.
Albert Einstein
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
Everything is energy and that's all there is to it. Match the frequency of the reality you want and you cannot help but get that reality. It can be no other way. This is not philosophy. This is physics.
Albert Einstein
Creativity is contagious. Pass it on.
Albert Einstein
Peace cannot be kept by force. It must be achieved by understanding.
Albert Einstein
Through the reading of popular scientific books I soon reached the conviction that much in the stories of the Bible could not be true. The consequence was a positively fanatic orgy of freethinking coupled with the impression that youth is intentionally being deceived by the state through lies; it was a crushing impression. Mistrust of every kind of authority grew out of this experience, a skeptical attitude toward the convictions that were alive in any specific social environment - an attitude that has never again left me, even though, later on, it has been tempered by a better insight into the causal connections.
Albert Einstein
Creativity is intelligence having fun.
Albert Einstein
When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again.
Albert Einstein
Love is a better master than duty.
Albert Einstein
Any fool can know. The point is to understand.
Albert Einstein
Out of clutter, find simplicity.
Albert Einstein
No man or Genie on earth had 'created' anything, we merely assembled God's Atoms, by learning it's properties, with his aid, so if anyone said that we had 'invented' anything - he had invented a lie; an unwise man... thinks we have created an atom.
Albert Einstein
The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.
Albert Einstein
The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.
Albert Einstein
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
I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be.
Albert Einstein
What is right is not always popular and what is popular is not always right.
Albert Einstein
Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.
Albert Einstein
Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
Albert Einstein
Nothing happens until something moves.
Albert Einstein
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
Albert Einstein
I never worry about the future. It comes soon enough.
Albert Einstein
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
Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.
Albert Einstein
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
Albert Einstein
If I had an hour to solve a problem and my life depended on the solution, I would spend the first 55 minutes determining the proper question to ask, for once I know the proper question, I could solve the problem in less than five minutes.
Albert Einstein
The state was made for man, not man for state.
Albert Einstein
God does not play dice with the universe.
Albert Einstein
The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.
Albert Einstein
The bigotry of the nonbeliever is for me nearly as funny as the bigotry of the believer.
Albert Einstein
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
Albert Einstein
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
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.
Albert Einstein
Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.
Albert Einstein
Time is an illusion.
Albert Einstein
God did not create evil. Just as darkness is the absence of light, evil is the absence of God.
Albert Einstein
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.
Albert Einstein
The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.
Albert Einstein
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
Albert Einstein
It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
Albert Einstein
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
Albert Einstein
Genius is 1% talent and 99% hard work.
Albert Einstein
You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
Albert Einstein
It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.
Albert Einstein
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.
Albert Einstein
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
Albert Einstein
The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before.
Albert Einstein
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Albert Einstein
There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
Albert Einstein