Albert Einstein - Quotes 101-200
An autocratic system of coercion, in my opinion soon degenerates. For force always attract men of low morality.
Albert Einstein
A ship is always safe at the shore - but that is not what it is built for.
Albert Einstein
I am thankful to all those who said no. It's because of them, I did it myself.
Albert Einstein
Creativity is the residue of time wasted.
Albert Einstein
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. 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
Everyday is an oportunity to make a new happy ending.
Albert Einstein
You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.
Albert Einstein
The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of time, art and true science. Whoever does not know it can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed.
Albert Einstein
What a sad era when it is easier to smash an atom than a prejudice.
Albert Einstein
A man's actions are determined by necessity, external and internal.
Albert Einstein
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
Albert Einstein
Even on the most solemn occasions I got away without wearing socks and hid that lack of civilization in high boots.
Albert Einstein
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
Albert Einstein
I want to know God's thoughts - the rest are mere details.
Albert Einstein
I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own - a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms.
Albert Einstein
Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.
Albert Einstein
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
Albert Einstein
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
One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike - and yet it is the most precious thing we have.
Albert Einstein
I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
Albert Einstein
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
Albert Einstein
The word 'God' is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, and religious scripture a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation, no matter how subtle, can (for me) change this.
Albert Einstein
When the solution is simple, God is answering.
Albert Einstein
Keep fighting until the last buzzer sounds.
Albert Einstein
It is my view that the vegetarian manner of living, by its purely physical effect on the human temperament, would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind.
Albert Einstein
God is subtle but he is not malicious.
Albert Einstein
There is far too great a disproportion between what one is and what others think one is, or at least what they say they think one is.
Albert Einstein
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
Albert Einstein
If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.
Albert Einstein
For rebelling against every form of authority fate has punished me by making me an authority.
Albert Einstein
From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that we are here for the sake of each other - above all for those upon whose smile and well-being our own happiness depends, and also for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected by a bond of sympathy. Many times a day I realize how much my own outer and inner life is built upon the labors of my fellow men, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received.
Albert Einstein
Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
Albert Einstein
I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking.
Albert Einstein
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.
Albert Einstein
If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.
Albert Einstein
I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.
Albert Einstein
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.
Albert Einstein
Imagination is the highest form of research.
Albert Einstein
A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.
Albert Einstein
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
Albert Einstein
The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with joy are goodness, beauty, and truth.
Albert Einstein
I thought of that while riding my bicycle.
Albert Einstein
Dancers are the athletes of God.
Albert Einstein
Buddhism has the characteristics of what would be expected in a cosmic religion for the future: it transcends a personal God, avoids dogmas and theology; it covers both the natural and spiritual, and it is based on a religious sense aspiring from the experience of all things, natural and spiritual, as a meaningful unity.
Albert Einstein
The only sure way to avoid making mistakes is to have no new ideas.
Albert Einstein
Every one who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that a spirit is manifest in the laws of the Universe - a spirit vastly superior to that of man, and one in the face of which we with our modest powers must feel humble. In this way the pursuit of science leads to a religious feeling of a special sort, which is indeed quite different from the religiosity of someone more naive.
Albert Einstein
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.
Albert Einstein
The search for truth is more precious than its possession.
Albert Einstein
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
I believe in intuitions and inspirations... I sometimes feel that I am right. I do not know that I am.
Albert Einstein
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Albert Einstein
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.
Albert Einstein
Unthinking repect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
Albert Einstein
Life is a preparation for the future; and the best preparation for the future is to live as if there were none.
Albert Einstein
Force always attracts men of low morality.
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Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible.
Albert Einstein
Common sense is what tells us the earth is flat.
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The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
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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.
Albert Einstein
It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I also cannot imagine some will or goal outside the human sphere.... Science has been charged with undermining morality, but the charge is unjust. A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
Albert Einstein
The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!
Albert Einstein
You can believe nothing or everything is a miracle. I believe everything is a miracle.
Albert Einstein
You are right in speaking of the moral foundations of science, but you cannot turn around and speak of the scientific foundations of morality.
Albert Einstein
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
It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom. Without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail.
Albert Einstein
A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.
Albert Einstein
In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not.
Albert Einstein
If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism.
Albert Einstein
God always takes the simplest way.
Albert Einstein
No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?
Albert Einstein
What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the World.
Albert Einstein
If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare me a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German, and Germany will declare that I am a Jew.
Albert Einstein
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.
Albert Einstein
A true genius admits that he/she knows nothing.
Albert Einstein
An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.
Albert Einstein
A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?
Albert Einstein
I received your letter of June 10th. I have never talked to a Jesuit priest in my life and I am astonished by the audacity to tell such lies about me. From the viewpoint of a Jesuit priest I am, of course, and have always been an atheist.
Albert Einstein
Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury - to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best for both the body and the mind.
Albert Einstein
For any one who is pervaded with the sense of causal law in all that happens, who accepts in real earnest the assumption of causality, the idea of a Being who interferes with the sequence of events in the world is absolutely impossible. Neither the religion of fear nor the social-moral religion can have any hold on him.
Albert Einstein
You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.
Albert Einstein
I love Humanity but I hate humans.
Albert Einstein
The only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library.
Albert Einstein
I am satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of life and with the awareness and a glimpse of the marvelous structure of the existing world, together with the devoted striving to comprehend a portion, be it ever so tiny, of the Reason that manifests itself in nature.
Albert Einstein
I see my life in terms of music.
Albert Einstein
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.
Albert Einstein
The only source of knowledge is experience.
Albert Einstein
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.
Albert Einstein
We are all life trying to live, among other life trying to live.
Albert Einstein
I'm not an atheist and I don't think I can call myself a pantheist. We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many different languages. The child knows someone must have written those books. It does not know how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. The child dimly suspects a mysterious order in the arrangement of the books but doesn't know what it is. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of even the most intelligent human being toward God. We see a universe marvelously arranged and obeying certain laws, but only dimly understand these laws. Our limited minds cannot grasp the mysterious force that moves the constellations.
Albert Einstein
The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
Albert Einstein
Truth is what stands the test of experience.
Albert Einstein
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
Albert Einstein
A foolish faith in authority is the worst enemy of truth.
Albert Einstein
What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can comprehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility. This is a genuinely religious feeling that has nothing to do with mysticism.
Albert Einstein
My passionate sense of social justice and social responsibility has always contrasted oddly with my pronounced lack of need for direct contact with other human beings and human communities. I am truly a 'lone traveler' and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart; in the face of all these ties, I have never lost a sense of distance and a need for solitude.
Albert Einstein
It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception.
Albert Einstein
Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as hard duty. Never regard study as duty but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs.
Albert Einstein
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.
Albert Einstein
No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.
Albert Einstein
We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
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