Albert Einstein Quotes

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

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

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

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.

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

A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?

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

Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today’s events.

The environment is everything that isn’t me.

The only real valuable thing is intuition.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

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

I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.

Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.

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

It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.

Information is not knowledge.

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

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

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.

When the solution is simple, God is answering.

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

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.

We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.

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

I love to travel, but hate to arrive.

I am a deeply religious nonbeliever – this is a somewhat new kind of religion.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

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

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

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

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

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

Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.

The faster you go, the shorter you are.

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

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

People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.

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

God always takes the simplest way.

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

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

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

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

Love is a better teacher than duty.

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

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.

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.

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.