Albert Einstein > Quotes

“An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.”
― Albert Einstein

“Past is dead
Future is uncertain;
Present is all you have,
So eat, drink and live merry.”
― 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. I am truly a 'lone traveler' and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart; in the face of all these ties, I have never lost a sense of distance and a need for solitude… ”
― Albert Einstein, Ideas and Opinions

“I see my life in terms of music.”
― 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

“I thought of that while riding my bicycle.”
― Albert Einstein

“At least once a day, allow yourself the freedom to think and dream for yourself.”
― Albert Einstein

“Force always attracts men of low morality.”
― Albert Einstein

“We experience ourselves our 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.”
― Albert Einstein

“Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.”
― 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.... It would be a sad situation if the wrapper were better than the meat wrapped inside it.”
― Albert Einstein

“It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I also cannot imagine some will or goal outside the human sphere... Science has been charged with undermining morality, but the charge is unjust. A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.”
― Albert Einstein

“Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature. ”
― Albert Einstein

“Learning is experience. Everything else is just information.”
― Albert Einstein

“What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the World.”
― Albert Einstein

“The human spirit must prevail over technology.”
― Albert Einstein

“Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as hard duty. Never regard study as duty but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs.”
― Albert Einstein

“No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.”
― Albert Einstein

“Imagination is more important than knowledge”
― Albert Einstien

“Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.”
― Einstein

“I don't try to imagine a personal God; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.”
― Albert Einstein

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

“Excellence is doing a common thing in an uncommon way.”
― Albert Einstein

“Never do anything against conscience, even if the state demands it.”
― Albert Einstein

“Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder, to search for the truth. Have holy curiosity. Make your life worth living.”
― Albert Einstein

“Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
― Albert Einstein, The Quotable Einstein

“How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of good will.”
― Albert Einstein

“We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library, whose walls are covered to the ceiling with books in many different languages. The child knows that someone must have written those books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the the languages in which they are written. The child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books, a mysterious order, which it does not comprehend but only dimly suspects.”
― Albert Einstein

“You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.”
― Albert Einstein

“It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.”
― Albert Einstein