Famous Quotes

Quotes by Albert Einstein

• 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.
• Information is not knowledge.
• Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
• Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.
• It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.
• It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
• It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
• It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
• It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.
• It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
• 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.
• It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.
• It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
• Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.
• Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.
• Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
• Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.
• Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
• Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
• Love is a better teacher than duty.
• Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.
• Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.
• Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.
• 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.
• Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
• No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right a single experiment can prove me wrong.
• Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.
• 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.
• 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.
• Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
• 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.
• Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
• 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.
• Peace cannot be kept by force it can only be achieved by understanding.
• People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.
• Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age.
• Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.
• Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.
• 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.