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Famous Albert Einstein Quotes
Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
When the solution is simple, God is answering.
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.
A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.
A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?
A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?
All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.
All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.
All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.
An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.
Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.
Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
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.
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.
Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.
Everything should be as simple as it is, but not simpler.
Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.
Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.
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.
Force always attracts men of low morality.
God always takes the simplest way.
God does not play dice.
God may be subtle, but he isn't plain mean.
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
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.
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!
Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion.
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.
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.
I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.
I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.
I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.
I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.
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.
I have just got a new theory of eternity.
I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.
I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
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.
In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself.
Information is not knowledge.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.
Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?
It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.
It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
It is only to the individual that a soul is given.
It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.
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.
It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.
Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
Love is a better teacher than duty.
Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events.
Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.
Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.
Most people say that is it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.
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.
Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.
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