Albert Einstein quotes

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.

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

Force always attracts men of low morality.

I love to travel, but hate to arrive.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

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

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

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

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.

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

God does not play dice.

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.

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

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

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.

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

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

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

The environment is everything that isn't me.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

God always takes the simplest way.

God always takes the simplest way.

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

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

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.

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.

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

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.

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

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

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

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

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

It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.

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

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

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

Force always attracts men of low morality.

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 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.

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

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.

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.

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

I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

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

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.

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

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

The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.

You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one.

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

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

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

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.

Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.

Information is not knowledge.

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

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

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

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

It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

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.

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

Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.

The only source of knowledge is experience.

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

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.

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

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

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 never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

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

The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.

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.

God may be subtle, but he isn't plain mean.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.

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.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

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

Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

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

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

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

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

When the solution is simple, God is answering.

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

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

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

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

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

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.

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

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.

Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

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

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

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

One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.

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

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

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

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

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

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.

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

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

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

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.

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

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

The only source of knowledge is experience.

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.

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

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

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

Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature.

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

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

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

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

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

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

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

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