Albert Einstein Quotes

Once you stop learning, you start dying

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Imagination is the language of the soul. Pay attention to your imagination and you will discover all you need to be fulfilled.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

No one must think that Newton’s great creation can be overthrown in any real sense by this [Theory of Relativity] or by any other theory. His clear and wide ideas will for ever retain their significance as the foundation on which our modern conceptions of physics have been built.

When the solution is simple, God is answering.

The world as we see it is only the world as we see it. Others may see it differently.

I never said half the crap people said I did.

As for the search for truth, I know from my own painful searching, with its many blind alleys, how hard it is to take a reliable step, be it ever so small, towards the understanding of that which is truly significant.

The armament industry is indeed one of the greatest dangers that beset mankind. It is the hidden evil power.

A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.

Betterment of conditions the world over is not essentially dependent on scientific knowledge but on the fulfillment of human traditions and ideals.

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

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.

Anyone can repeat a technical explanation they read in a text-book or blog post.

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

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

Even if only 2 percent of those assigned to perform military service should announce their refusal to fight, governments would be powerless, they would not dare send such a large number of people to jail.

The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

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

Politics is far more complicated than physics.

What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the World.

The thinking that got us to where we are is not the thinking that will get us to where we want to be.

There's no question dolphins are smarter than humans as they play more.

Men like Henry George [ the pioneer of land value taxation] are rare, unfortunately. One cannot imagine a more beautiful combination of intellectual keenness, artistic form, and fervent love of justice.

The equation for ego is: One over Knowledge.

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.

Quantum mechanics is certainly imposing. But an inner voice tells me that this is not yet the real thing. The theory says a lot, but does not bring us any closer to the secrets of the "Old One." I, at any rate, am convinced that He is not playing at dice.

If you want to know the future, look at the past.

I'm more interested in the future than in the past, because the future is where I intend to live.

Children don’t heed the life experiences of their parents, and nations ignore history. Bad lessons always have to be learned anew.

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 fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, 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.

The world is not threatened by evil people, but by those who allow evil to take place.

You are the only person I know who has the same attitude towards physics as I have: belief in the comprehension of reality through something basically simple and unified... It seems hard to sneak a look at God's cards. But that He plays dice and uses 'telepathic' methods... is something that I cannot believe for a single moment.

No one does anything right in life, until they realize that they are making a mistake

We must learn to see the world anew.

the scientist's religious feeling takes the form of a rapturous amazement at the harmony of natural law, which reveals an intelligence of such superiority that, compared with it, all the systematic thinking and acting of human beings is utterly insignificant reflection. This feeling is the guiding principle of his life and work, in so far as he succeeds in keeping himself from the shackles of selfish desire. It is beyond question closely akin to that which has possessed the religious geniuses of all ages.

To one bent on age, death will come as a release. I feel this quite strongly now that I have grown old myself and have come to regard death like an old debt, at long last to be discharged.

Never underestimate your own ignorance.

Man like every other animal is by nature indolent. If nothing spurs him on, then he will hardly think, and will behave from habit like an automaton.

God gave me the stubbornness of a mule and a fairly keen scent.

I should very much like to remain in the darkness of not having been analyzed.

I believe that we don't need to worry about what happens after this life, as long as we do our duty here-to love and to serve.

Women always worry about things that men forget; men always worry about things women remember.

I think that a particle must have a separate reality independent of the measurements. That is an electron has spin, location and so forth even when it is not being measured. I like to think that the moon is there even if I am not looking at it.

A permanent peace cannot be prepared by threats but only by the honest attempt to create a mutual trust. However strong national armaments may be, they do not create military security for any nation nor do they guarantee the maintenance of peace.

If you want to make your children brilliant, tell them fairy tales. If you want to make them more brilliant, tell them more fairy tales.

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