Quotes

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
-Albert Einstein

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

Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.
-Albert Einstein

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.
-Albert Einstein

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.
-Albert Einstein

I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.
-Albert Einstein

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

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-Albert Einstein

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

I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.
-Albert Einstein

Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?
-Albert Einstein

It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
-Albert Einstein

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
-Albert Einstein

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-Albert Einstein

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
-Albert Einstein

A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?
-Albert Einstein

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

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
-Albert Einstein

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
-Albert Einstein

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!
-Albert Einstein

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.
-Albert Einstein

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-Albert Einstein

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

Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.
-Albert Einstein

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
-Albert Einstein

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

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

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
-Albert Einstein

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
-Albert Einstein

It is only to the individual that a soul is given.
-Albert Einstein

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

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

Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction.
-Albert Einstein

Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.
-Albert Einstein

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
-Albert Einstein

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
-Albert Einstein

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
-Albert Einstein

As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
-Albert Einstein

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

Everything should be as simple as it is, but not simpler.
-Albert Einstein

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
-Albert Einstein

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
-Albert Einstein

The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
-Albert Einstein

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
-Albert Einstein

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.
-Albert Einstein

It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.
-Albert Einstein

A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.
-Albert Einstein

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

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
-Albert Einstein

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

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

I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion.
-Albert Einstein

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

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.
-Albert Einstein

Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-Albert Einstein

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

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

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-Albert Einstein

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
-Albert Einstein

The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal.
-Albert Einstein

The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.
-Albert Einstein