Albert Einstein Quotes & Sayings

All means prove but blunt instruments, if they have not behind them a living spirit. — Albert Einstein

Everyone knew it was impossible, until a fool who didn't know came along and did it. — Albert Einstein

You can be nothing or everything is a miracle. I believe everything is a miracle. — Albert Einstein

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

I want to be cremated so people won't come to worship at my bones. — Albert Einstein

It is my inner conviction that the development of science seeks in the main to satisfy the longing for pure knowledge. — Albert Einstein

We must not only learn to tolerate our differences. We must welcome them as the richness and diversity which can lead to true intelligence. — Albert Einstein

The only justifiable purpose of political institutions is to ensure the unhindered development of the individual. — Albert Einstein

If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies ... It would be a sad situation if the wrapper were better than the meat wrapped inside it. — Albert Einstein

To know what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty ... this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness. — Albert Einstein

In art, and in the higher ranges of science, there is a feeling of harmony which underlies all endeavor. There is no true greatness in art or science without that sense of harmony. — Albert Einstein

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new. — Albert Einstein

The payment of the worker is not determined by the value of his product. — Albert Einstein

Long live impudence. It was my guardian angel in this world. — Albert Einstein

The person who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The person who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever seen before. — Albert Einstein

A problem defined, is a problem half solved. — Albert Einstein

Don't listen to the person who has the answers; listen to the person who has the questions. — Albert Einstein

Berlin is the place to which I am most closely bound by human and scientific ties. — Albert Einstein

Not all that counts, can be counted — Albert Einstein

I have yet to meet a single person from our culture, no matter what his or her educational background, IQ, and specific training, who had powerful transpersonal experiences and continues to subscribe to the materialistic monism of Western science. — Albert Einstein

There lies the weaknesss of positivists and professional atheists who are elated because they feel that they have not only successfully rid the world of gods but "bared the miracles." (That is, explained the miracles. - ed.) Oddly enough, we must be satisfied to acknowledge the "miracle" without there being any legitimate way for us to approach it . I am forced to add that just to keep you from thinking that -weakened by age-I have fallen prey to the clergy ... — Albert Einstein

Well-being and happiness never appeared to me as an absolute aim. I am even inclined to compare such moral aims to the ambitions of a pig. — Albert Einstein

Coincidences are God's way of staying anonymous. — Albert Einstein

And yet so high, in spite of everything, is my opinion of the human race that I believe this bogey would have disappeared long ago, had the sound sense of the nations not been systematically corrupted by commercial and political interests acting through the schools and the Press. — Albert Einstein

To have a better life we must keep choosing how we are living. — Albert Einstein

That a man can take pleasure in marching in formation to the strains of a band is enough to make me despise him. He has only been given his big brain by mistake; a backbone was all he needed. — Albert Einstein

The daily struggle does not arise from a purpose or a program, but from an immediate need. — Albert Einstein

I am also convinced that one gains the purest joy from spirited things only when they are not tied in with earning one's livelihood. — Albert Einstein

If you want to know the future, look at the past. — Albert Einstein

The cult of individual personalities is always, in my view, unjustified. To be sure, nature distributes her gifts variously among her children. But there are plenty of the well-endowed ones too, thank God, and I am firmly convinced that most of them live quiet, unregarded lives. — Albert Einstein

I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be. — Albert Einstein

I always found I was in the best of company, alone. — Albert Einstein

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education. — Albert Einstein

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. — Albert Einstein

Love is a better teacher than duty. — Albert Einstein

War cannot be humanized. It can only be abolished. — Albert Einstein

The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown. — Albert Einstein

Concepts which have proved useful for ordering things easily assume so great an authority over us, that we forget their terrestrial origin and accept them as unalterable facts. They then become labeled as 'conceptual necessities,' etc. The road of scientific progress is frequently blocked for long periods by such errors. — Albert Einstein

My relationship to the Jewish people has become my strongest human bond, ever since I became fully aware of our precarious situation among the nations of the world. — Albert Einstein

The right to search for truth implies also a duty. — Albert Einstein

Of what significance is one's existence, one is basically unaware. What does a fish know about the water in which he swims all his life? The bitter and the sweet come from outside. The hard from within, from one's own efforts. For the most part I do what my own nature drives me to do. It is embarrassing to earn such respect and love for it. — Albert Einstein

If I had foreseen Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I would have torn up my formula in 1905. — Albert Einstein

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

The strange things about growing old is that the intimate identification with the here and now is slowly lost. One feels transposed into infinity, more or less alone. — Albert Einstein

I do not like to state an opinion on a matter unless I know the precise facts. — Albert Einstein

Everything that the human race has done and thought is concerned with the satisfaction of deeply felt needs and the assuagement of pain. One has to keep this constantly in mind if one wishes to understand spiritual movements and their development. Feeling and longing are the motive force behind all human endeavor and human creation, in however exalted a guise the latter may present themselves to us. — Albert Einstein

I wish to do something Great and Wonderful, but I must start by doing the little things like they were Great and Wonderful — Albert Einstein

The equation for ego is: One over Knowledge. — Albert Einstein

A true genius admits that he/she knows nothing. — Albert Einstein

Imagination without knowledge may create beautiful things, knowledge without imagination can create only perfect ones. — Albert Einstein

Relativity teaches us the connection between the different descriptions of one and the same reality. — Albert Einstein

You believe in the God who plays dice, and I in complete law and order in a world that objectively exists, and which I, in a wildly speculative way, am trying to capture ... Even the great initial success of the quantum theory does not make me believe in the fundamental dice-game, although I am well aware that our younger colleagues interpret this as a consequence of senility. No doubt the day will come when we will see whose instinctive attitude was the correct one. — Albert Einstein

You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat. — Albert Einstein

Matter is spirit reduced to point of visibility. — Albert Einstein

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

Necessity is the mother of all invention. — Albert Einstein

(Reply on what constitutes scientific proofThe question is much too difficult for me. — Albert Einstein

I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious. — Albert Einstein

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

The person who reads too much and uses his brain too little will fall into lazy habits of thinking.. — Albert Einstein

For me the Jewish religion like all other religions is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions. — Albert Einstein

Common sense consists of those layers of prejudice laid down before the age of 18. — Albert Einstein

Creativity is seeing what others see and thinking what no one else has ever thought. — Albert Einstein

Never memorize something that you can look up. — Albert Einstein

In matters of trust and justice there can be no distinction between big problems and small, for the general principles which determine the conduct of men are indivisible. Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted in important affairs. — Albert Einstein

Out of the clutter find Simplicity — Albert Einstein

Time flies when you are having fun. — Albert Einstein

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. — Albert Einstein

The most evident difference springs from the important part which is played in man by a relatively strong power of imagination and by the capacity to think, aided as it is by language and other symbolically devices. — Albert Einstein

You are right in speaking of the moral foundations of science, but you cannot turn around and speak of the scientific foundations of morality. — Albert Einstein

Thinking is to man what flying is to birds. Don't follow the example of a chicken when you could be a lark. — Albert Einstein

Scarcely anyone who comprehends this theory can escape its magic. — Albert Einstein

It is harder to crack prejudice than an atom. — Albert Einstein

To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself. — Albert Einstein

What is this frog and mouse battle among the mathematicians? — Albert Einstein

For us physicists believe the separation between past, present, and future is only an illusion, although a convincing one. — Albert Einstein

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

The action of the earth on the stone takes place indirectly. The earth produces in its surroundings a gravitational field, which acts on the stone and produces its motion of fall...The intensity and direction of the field at points farther removed...are thence determined by the law which governs the properties in space of the gravitational fields themselves. — Albert Einstein

The moon does not simply disappear when we are not looking at it. — Albert Einstein

I have just got a new theory of eternity. — Albert Einstein

If honey bees become extinct, human society will follow in four years. — Albert Einstein

My only refuge, as a serious young man, from the despair of my financial burden to my family, is that I did everything I could to never permit myself any amusements or diversions except those afforded by my studies. — Albert Einstein

The education of the individual, in addition to promoting his own innate abilities, would attempt to develop in him a sense of responsibility for his fellow men in place of the glorification of power and success in our present society. — Albert Einstein

Every age has its beautiful moments. — Albert Einstein

The basis of all scientific work is the conviction that the world is an ordered and comprehensive entity, which is a religious sentiment. My religious feeling is a humble amazement at the order revealed in the small patch of reality to which our feeble intelligence is equal. — Albert Einstein

If you cannot explain it simply, you do not understand it enough. — Albert Einstein

The analogy I like is this imagine being able to see the world but you are deaf, and then suddenly someone gives you the ability to hear things as well - you get an extra dimension of perception, — Albert Einstein

One scientific epoch ended and another began with James Clerk Maxwell. — Albert Einstein

The splitting of the atom has changed everything except for how we think. — Albert Einstein

The ways of creation are wrapt in mystery. We may only marvel, and bow our head. — Albert Einstein

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

I see my life in terms of music. — Albert Einstein

A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it. — Albert Einstein

A person who is religiously enlightened appears to me to be one who has, to the best of his ability, liberated himself from the fetters of his selfish desires and is preoccupied with thoughts, feelings, and aspirations to which he clings because of their superpersonal value. — Albert Einstein

It seems to me an utterly futile task to prescribe rules and limitations for the conduct of war. War is not a game; hence one cannot wage war by rules as one would in playing games. Our fight must be against war itself. The masses of people can most effectively fight the institution of war by establishing an organization for the absolute refusal of military service. — Albert Einstein

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

It would be better if you begin to teach others only after you yourself have learned something. — Albert Einstein

I would absolutely refuse any direct or indirect war service and would try to persuade my friends to do the same, regardless of the reasons for the cause of a war. — Albert Einstein

The series of integers is obviously an invention of the human mind, a self-created tool which simplifies the ordering of certain sensory experiences. — Albert Einstein

The theoretical idea ... does not arise apart from and independent of experience; nor can it be derived from experience by a purely logical procedure. It is produced by a creative act. Once a theoretical idea has been acquired, one does well to hold fast to it until it leads to an untenable conclusion. — Albert Einstein