Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.
– Albert Einstein
Logic will get you from A to Z. Imagination will get you everywhere.
– Albert Einstein
I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the
university.
– Albert Einstein
I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.
– Albert Einstein
It is not that I’m so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.
– Albert Einstein
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.
– Albert Einstein
The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.
– Albert Einstein
The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created
a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.
– Albert Einstein
I want to know God’s thoughts – the rest are mere details.
– Albert Einstein
Creativity is intelligence having fun.
– Albert Einstein
The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without
changing our thinking.
– Albert Einstein
Coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous.
– Albert Einstein
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.
– Albert Einstein
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
– Albert Einstein
You never fail until you stop trying.
– Albert Einstein
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
– Albert Einstein
Love is a better master than duty.
– Albert Einstein
When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to
stand again.
– Albert Einstein
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.
– Albert Einstein
The strange thing 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, no longer in hope or fear,
only observing.
– Albert Einstein
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one’s living at it.
– Albert Einstein
Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole
life believing that it is stupid.
– Albert Einstein
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
– Albert Einstein
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there’s no risk of accident for
someone who’s dead.
– Albert Einstein
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the
name of patriotism – how passionately I hate them!
– Albert Einstein
I’m not an atheist and I don’t think I can call myself a pantheist. We are in the position of a
little child entering a huge library filled with books in many different languages. The child
knows someone must have written those books. It does not know how. The child dimly
suspects a mysterious order in the arrangement of the books but doesn’t know what it is.
That, it seems to me, is the attitude of even the most intelligent human being toward God.
– Albert Einstein
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
– Albert Einstein
Three great forces rule the world: stupidity, fear and greed.
– Albert Einstein
The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who
walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before.
– Albert Einstein
Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.
– 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.
– Albert Einstein
The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.
– Albert Einstein
Once you stop learning, you start dying.
– Albert Einstein
I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
– Albert Einstein
Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
– Albert Einstein
I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be.
– Albert Einstein
Out of clutter, find simplicity.
– Albert Einstein
If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?
– Albert Einstein
Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
– Albert Einstein
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought
with sticks and stones.
– Albert Einstein
A person who has never made a mistake never tried anything new.
– Albert Einstein
Genius is 1% talent and 99% percent hard work.
– Albert Einstein
Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler.
– Albert Einstein
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
– Albert Einstein
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is
as though everything is a miracle.
– Albert Einstein
Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.
– Albert Einstein
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.
– Albert Einstein
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
– Albert Einstein
Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.
– Albert Einstein
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
– Albert Einstein
Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
– Albert Einstein
What a sad era when it is easier to smash an atom than a prejudice.
– Albert Einstein
You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
– Albert Einstein
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
– Albert Einstein
Somebody who only reads newspapers and at best books of contemporary authors looks to
me like an extremely near-sighted person who scorns eyeglasses. He is completely dependent
on the prejudices and fashions of his times, since he never gets to see or hear anything else.
– Albert Einstein
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
– Albert Einstein
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop
questioning.
– Albert Einstein
Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
– Albert Einstein
In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep.
– Albert Einstein
Today we must abandon competition and secure cooperation. This must be the central fact
in all our considerations of international affairs; otherwise we face certain disaster.
– Albert Einstein
Much reading after a certain age diverts the mind from its creative pursuits. Any man who
reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking, just as the
man who spends too much time in the theaters is apt to be content with living vicariously
instead of living his own life.
– Albert Einstein
My political ideal is democracy. Let every man be respected as an individual and no man
idolized.
– Albert Einstein
Had I known that the Germans would not succeed in producing an atomic bomb, I would not
have lifted a finger.
– Albert Einstein
The important thing is not to stop questioning; curiosity has its own reason for existing.
– Albert Einstein
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
– Albert Einstein
It followed from the special theory of relativity that mass and energy are both but different
manifestations of the same thing, a somewhat unfamiliar conception for the average mind.
Furthermore, the equation E = mc², in which energy is put equal to mass, multiplied by the
square of the velocity of light, showed that very small amounts of mass may be converted
into a very large amount of energy and vice versa.
– Albert Einstein
Any intelligent 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.
– Albert Einstein
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
– Albert Einstein
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions that differ from the prejudices
of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
– Albert Einstein
I believe that pipe smoking contributes to a somewhat calm and objective judgement in all
human affairs.
– Albert Einstein
God does not play dice with the universe.
– Albert Einstein
If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping
your mouth shut.
– Albert Einstein
If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales.
If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.
– Albert Einstein
It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
– Albert Einstein
Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
– Albert Einstein
I’d rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.
– Albert Einstein
Any fool can make things bigger, more complex and more more violent. It takes a touch of
genius, and a lot of courage, to move in the opposite direction.
– Albert Einstein
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important
than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
– Albert Einstein
If you can’t explain it to a six year old, you don’t understand it yourself.
– Albert Einstein
Nothing happens until something moves.
– Albert Einstein
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
– Albert Einstein
An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.
– Albert Einstein
Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole
life believing that it is stupid.
– Albert Einstein
It is my view that the vegetarian manner of living, by its purely physical effect on the human
temperament, would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind.
– Albert Einstein
The best way to cheer yourself is to cheer somebody else up.
– Albert Einstein
Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.
– Albert Einstein
Any fool can know. The point is to understand.
– Albert Einstein
My passionate sense of social justice and social responsibility has always contrasted oddly
with my pronounced lack of need for direct contact with other human beings and human
communities.
– Albert Einstein
The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to
face life cheerfully, have been kindness, beauty and truth.
– Albert Einstein
What is right is not always popular and what is popular is not always right.
– Albert Einstein
The difference between genius and stupidity is: Genius has its limits.
– Albert Einstein
Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is
something for eternity.
– Albert Einstein
The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that
the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and
blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.
– Albert Einstein
My passionate sense of social justice and social responsibility has always contrasted oddly
with my pronounced lack of need for direct contact with other human beings and human
communities.
– Albert Einstein
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by
the laughter of the gods.
– Albert Einstein
The really valuable thing in the pageant of human life seems to me not the State but the
creative, sentient individual, the personality.
– Albert Einstein
If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects.
– Albert Einstein
All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.
– Albert Einstein
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art
and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder
and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: His eyes are closed.
– Albert Einstein
Nature shows us only the tail of the lion. But there is no doubt in my mind that the lion
belongs with it even if he cannot reveal himself to the eye all at once because of his huge
dimension.
– Albert Einstein
When the solution is simple, God is answering.
– Albert Einstein
I’d rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.
– Albert Einstein
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.
– Albert Einstein