Best Albert Einstein Quotes

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

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

A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, of the manifestations of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty, which are only accessible to our reason in their most elementary forms—it is this knowledge and this emotion that constitute the truly religious attitude; in this sense, and in this alone, I am a deeply religious man.

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

An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Education is the progressive realization of our ignorance.

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

I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Creating a new theory is not like destroying an old barn and erecting a skyscraper in its place. It is rather like climbing a mountain, gaining new and wider views, discovering unexpected connections between our starting points and its rich environment. But the point from which we started out still exists and can be seen, although it appears smaller and forms a tiny part of our broad view gained by the mastery of the obstacles on our adventurous way up.

A theory is the more impressive the greater is the simplicity of its premises, the more different are the kinds of things it relates and the more extended the range of its applicability.

An attempt at visualizing the Fourth Dimension: Take a point, stretch it into a line, curl it into a circle, twist it into a sphere, and punch through the sphere.

At the same time, as social beings, we are moved in the relations with our fellow beings by such feelings as sympathy, pride, hate, need for power, pity, and so on.

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

A human being is part of the whole, called by us 'universe,' a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separate from the rest -- a kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

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

Hunger, love, pain, fear are some of those inner forces which rule the individual's instinct for self preservation.

All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend 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.

A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.

And the high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule, or to impose himself in any other way.

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.

According to this conception, the sole function of education was to open the way to thinking and knowing, and the school, as the outstanding organ for the people's education, must serve that end exclusively.

I can't believe that God plays dice with the universe.

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

If we knew what we were doing it wouldn't be research.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.

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

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

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

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.

Each makes this cosmos and its construction the pivot of his emotional life, in order to find in this way peace and security which he can not find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience.

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.

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

How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

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

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

But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

If men as individuals surrender to the call of their elementary instincts, avoiding pain and seeking satisfaction only for their own selves, the result for them all taken together must be a state of insecurity, of fear, and of promiscuous misery.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police.