Albert Einstein Quotes

The led must not be compelled; they must be able to choose their own leader.

I'm not a genius. I'm just passionately curious.

Education is not received. It is achieved.

I was supposed to choose apractical profession, but this was simply unbearable to me.

It is impossible to get anywhere without sinning against reason.

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.

The indifference, callousness and contempt that so many people exhibit toward animals is evil first because it results in great suffering in animals, and second because it results in an incalculably great impoverishment of the human spirit.

All my life I have dealt with objective matters; hence I lack both the natural aptitude and the experience to deal properly with people and to carry out official functions.

Nothing happens unless something moves.

He who has never been deceived by a lie does not know the meaning of bliss.

All our thoughts and concepts are called up by sense-experiences and have a meaning only in reference to these sense-experiences. On the other hand, however, they are products of the spontaneous activity of our minds; they are thus in no wise logical consequences of the contents of these sense-experiences. If, therefore, we wish to grasp the essence of a complex of abstract notions we must for the one part investigate the mutual relationships between the concepts and the assertions made about them; for the other, we must investigate how they are related to the experiences.

I know little about nature and hardly anything about men.

It is both auspicious and peaceful for people to choose vegetarinism.

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

It is true that the grasping of truth is not possible without empirical basis. However, the deeper we penetrate and the more extensive and embracing our theories become the less empirical knowledge is needed to determine those theories.

I am a stronger follower of Veganism by principle, not just because of moral and aesthetic reasons. I truly believe in a Vegetarian lifestyle and I have faith and hopes in change in human destiny, thanks to the physical effects and benefits of a healthier diet and its influence on the character of the people. It will bring about some benefit and improvement to human society.

No fairer destiny could be allotted to any physical theory than that it should of itself point out the way to the introduction of a more comprehensive theory, in which it lives on as a limiting case.

The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life. To make this a living force and bring it to clear consciousness is perhaps the foremost task of education. The foundation of morality should not be made dependent on myth nor tied to any authority lest doubt about the myth or about the legitimacy of the authority imperil the foundation of sound judgment and action.

The height of stupidity is most clearly demonstrated by the individual who ridicules something he knows nothing about.

My pacifism is not based on any intellectual theory but on a deep antipathy to every form of cruelty and hatred.

Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.

Between the difficulties, one hides the opportunity

Only a monomaniac gets anything done.

You think you have troubles with mathematics . . . I assure you mine are still bigger.

What is this frog and mouse battle among the mathematicians?

I have made the Bhagwad Gita as the main source of my inspiration and guide for the purpose of scientific investigations and formation of my theories.

The theory must not contradict empirical facts.

While I am a convinced pacifist there are circumstances in which I believe the use of force is appropriate - namely, in the face of an enemy unconditionally bent on destroying me and my people.

The pioneers of a warless world are the young men (and women) who refuse military service.

While you're trying to get ahead, remember to get aheart as well. When your only problem IS a nail, all you want is a decent hammer. 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.

There exists a passion for comprehension, just as there exists a passion for music. That passion is rather common in children, but gets lost in most people later on. Without this passion there would be neither mathematics nor natural science.

Any society which does not insist upon respect for all life must necessarily decay.

Your ancestors dragged these black people from their homes by force; and in the white man's quest for wealth and an easy life they have been ruthlessly suppressed and exploited, degraded into slavery. The modern prejudice against Negroes is the result of the desire to maintain this unworthy condition.

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

I have no particular talent. I am merely inquisitive.

But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

(Reply on what constitutes scientific proof:)"The question is much too difficult for me.

It is easy to say something new, if all senses one will eschew. But hardly ever is found, that the new is also sound.

The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. Without the sense of kinship with men of like mind, without the occupation with the objective world, the eternally unattainable in the field of art and scientific endeavors, life would have seemed to the empty. The trite objects of human efforts — possessions, outward success, luxury—have always seemed to me contemptible.

One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.

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.

Epistemology without contact with science becomes an empty scheme. Science without epistemology is-insofar as it is thinkable at all-primitive and muddled.

Understanding physics is child's play when compared to understanding child's play.

Nonsense, seems to sum up everything.

My sailing system set sail, make it fast, no thoughts of energy or velocity, loll back, let boat drift.

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

Israel is the only place on earth where Jews have the possibility to shape public life according to their own traditional ideals.

Creating a new theory is not like destroying an old barn and erecting a skyscraper in its place. It is rather like climbing a mountain and gaining new and wider views.