Famous Quotes

Quotes by Albert Einstein

• A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin what else does a man need to be happy?
• All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.
• An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.
• Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
• 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.
• Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
• Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
• Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.
• 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.
• 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!
• 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 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 know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
• 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.
• 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.
• Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.
• Imagination is more important than knowledge.