Albert Einstein Quotes

There comes a point in your life when you need to stop reading other people's books and write your own.

The only source of knowledge is experience.

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

The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in our health, or we suffer in our soul, or we get fat.

A bartender is just a pharmacist with a limited inventory.

Knowledge is realizing that the street is one way; wisdom is looking in both directions anyway.

Be kind to people who are different from you.

Success = 1 part work + 1 part play + 1 part keep your mouth shut

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

Remember today, for it is the beginning of always. Today marks the start of a brave new future filled with all your dreams can hold. Think truly to the future and make those dreams come true.

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

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.

Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.

When I read the Bhagavad-Gita and reflect about how God created this universe everything else seems so superfluous

We dance for laughter, we dance for tears, we dance for madness, we dance for fears, we dance for hopes, we dance for screams, we are the dancers, we create the dreams.

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

Information is not knowledge. The only source of knowledge is experience. You need experience to gain wisdom.

Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it ... he who doesn't ... pays it.

Vegetarian food leaves a deep impression on our nature. If the whole world adopts vegetarianism, it can change the destiny of humankind.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

I am a Jew, but I am enthralled by the luminous figure of the Nazarene….No one can read the Gospels without feeling the actual presence of Jesus.

Scientists investigate that which already is; Engineers create that which has never been.

God does not play dice.

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

Persistence is the most powerful force on earth, it can move mountains.

A thought that sometimes makes me hazy: Am I - or are the others crazy?

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

Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.

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

A great thought begins by seeing something differently, with a shift of the mind's eye.

Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.

Creativity is intelligence having fun.

I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.

How many people are trapped in their everyday habits: part numb, part frightened, part indifferent? To have a better life we must keep choosing how we are living.

It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.

People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

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

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

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.

Adversity introduces a man to himself.

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

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

The true definition of madness is repeating the same action, over and over, hoping for a different result.

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift.

Outer changes always begin with an inner change of attitude.

I believe that pipe smoking contributes to a somewhat calm and objective judgement in all human affairs.

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.