Albert Einstein Quotes

I am by heritage a Jew, by citizenship a Swiss, and by makeup a human being, and only a human being, without any special attachment to any state or national entity whatsoeverLet us not forget that human knowledge and skills alone cannot lead humanity to a happy and dignified life.

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

The important thing is to not stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

A question that sometimes drives me hazy am I or are the others crazy?

Science can flourish only in an atmosphere of free speech.

It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry.

Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hopes of reward after death.

I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.

Once you stop learning, you start dyning.

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

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

If you are not appreciated, you are successful if you are imitated.

Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

A human being is part of a whole called by us Universe.

A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.

Although I am a typical loner in daily life, my consciousness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has preserved me from feeling isolated.

Hail to the man who went through life always helping others, knowing no fear, and to whom aggressiveness and resentment are alien.

Creativity is intelligence having fun.

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious.

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

The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it.

İf you can’t axplain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.

Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.

If I knew this would happen, I would be a shoemakerAny fool can know. The point is to understand.

İmagination is more important than knowledge.

Never give up on the what you really want to do.

Out yonder there was this huge world, which exists independently of us human beings and which stands before us like a great, eternal riddle, at least partially accessible to our inspection and thinking. The contemplation of this world beckoned like a liberation.

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

I love to travel, but I hate to arrive.

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

I would teach peace rather than war. I would inculcate love rather than hate.

All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.

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

The great moral teachers of humanity were, in a way, artistic geniuses in the art of living.

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.

If you want to be happy, connect to a purpose; not to people or things.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.

I believe in standardizing automobiles. I do not believe in standardizing human beings.

Eliminating prejudices is more difficult than breaking down the atomic nucleus.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

The years of anxious searching in the dark, with their intense longing, their alternations of confidence and exhaustion, and final emergence into light—only those who have experienced it can understand that.

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

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

Invention is not the product of logical thought, even though the final product is tied to a logical structure.

I believe in intuitions and inspirations. I sometimes feel that I am right. I do not know that I am.

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.