Albert Einstein Quotes

Creativity is contagious. Pass it on.

Just because you believe in something does not mean that it is true.

Curiosity has its own reason for existence.

Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.

Logic can take you from point A to point B. Imagination can take you wherever you want

We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.

The value of achievement lies in the achieving.

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.

It is entirely possible that behind the perception of our senses, worlds are hidden of which we are unaware.

A society's competitive advantage will come not from how well its schools teach the multiplication and periodic tables, but from how well they stimulate imagination and creativity.

I never failed in mathematics. Before I was fifteen I had mastered differential and integral calculus.

A human being is part of a whole called by us the universe.

The world we have created is a product of our thinking.

Everyone has two choices. We're either full of love... or full of fear.

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.

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.

To obtain an assured favorable response from people, it is better to offer them something for their stomachs instead of their brains.

One should never impose one's views on a problem; one should rather study it, and in time a solution will reveal itself.

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

Nothing happens until something moves.

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

The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self.

The dog is very smart. He feels sorry for me because I receive so much mail; that's why he tries to bite the mailman.

The most important thing is to not stop questioning.

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

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

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

With fame I become more and more stupid, which of course is a very common phenomenon.

...Intelligence and character of the masses are incomparably lower than the intelligence and character of the few who produce something valuable for the community.

A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.

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.

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?

My life is a simple thing that would interest no one. It is a known fact that I was born, and that is all that is necessary.

I think 99 times and find nothing. I stop thinking, swim in the silence, and the truth comes to me.

God reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists.

There is only one road to human greatness: through the school of hard knocks.

Imagination is the most powerful force in the universe.

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

If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.

It almost seems to me that man was not born to be a carnivore.

If you can't explain something simply, you don't know enough about it.

Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn

Opinions about obviousness are to a certain extent a function of time.

Pure logical thinking cannot yield us any knowledge of the empirical world. All knowledge of reality starts from experience and ends in it.

The family that prays together...is brainwashing their children.

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

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

The true measure of a man is the degree to which he has managed to subjugate his ego.

To take those fools in clerical garb seriously is to show them too much honor.

Life is a great tapestry. The individual is only an insignificant thread in an immense and miraculous pattern.