Albert Einstein quotes:

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

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.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

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.

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

The only source of knowledge is experience.

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

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

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.

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

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

Mozart's music is so pure and beautiful that I see it as a reflection of the inner beauty of the universe.

Information is not knowledge.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

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

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

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.

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

I want to go when I want. It is tasteless to prolong life artificially. I have done my share; it is time to go. I will do it elegantly.

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

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

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

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

When the solution is simple, God is answering.

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

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

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

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

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

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

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

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

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

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

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

Love is a better teacher than duty.

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

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

The environment is everything that isn't me.

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

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

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

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.

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

Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.

God always takes the simplest way.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

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

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

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.

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.

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

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

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

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

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

If I had known they were going to do this, I would have become a shoemaker.

This topic brings me to that worst outcrop of herd life, the military system, which I abhorThis plague-spot of civilization ought to be abolished with all possible speed. Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them!

Everything is energy.

Somebody who only reads newspapers and at best books of contemporary authors looks to me like an extremely near-sighted person who scorns eyeglasses. He is completely dependent on the prejudices and fashions of his times, since he never gets to see or hear anything else.

Small is the number of them that see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

Great spirits have always encountered 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.

Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social enviroment. Most people are incapable of forming such opinions."(Essay to Leo Baeck, 1953)

An autocratic system of coercion, in my opinion soon degenerates. For force always attract men of low morality.

It is only men who are free, who create the inventions and intellectual works which to us moderns make life worth while.

A man's ethical behaviour 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."

I don't try to imagine a personal God; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it."

In the matter of physics, the first lessons should contain nothing but what is experimental and interesting to see. A pretty experiment is in itself often more valuable than twenty formulae extracted from our minds."

The formulation of the problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill."

In two weeks the sheeplike masses of any country can be worked up by the newspapers into such a state of excited fury that men are prepared to put on uniforms and kill and be killed, for the sake of the sordid ends of a few interested parties."

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

It is abhorrent to me when a fine intelligence is paired with an unsavory character.