Albert Einstein Quotes

By Alan Reiner – July 5, 2024

‘Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.’ – Albert Einstein

‘If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.’ – Albert Einstein

‘Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.’ – Albert Einstein

‘We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.’ – Albert Einstein

‘Coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous.’ – Albert Einstein

‘Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.’ – Albert Einstein

‘A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.’ – Albert Einstein

‘Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.’ – Albert Einstein

‘We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.’ – Albert Einstein

‘Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.’ – Albert Einstein

‘I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.’ – Albert Einstein

‘Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.’ – Albert Einstein

‘It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.’ – Albert Einstein

‘Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.’ – Albert Einstein

‘Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.’ – Albert Einstein

‘No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.’ – Albert Einstein

‘Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.’ – Albert Einstein

‘The only source of knowledge is experience.’ – Albert Einstein

‘Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.’ – 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

‘Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.’ – Albert Einstein

‘The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.’ – Albert Einstein

‘Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.’ – Albert Einstein

‘The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.’ – Albert Einstein

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

‘The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.’ – Albert Einstein

‘It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.’ – Albert Einstein

‘Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.’ – Albert Einstein

‘The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.’ – Albert Einstein

‘Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.’ – Albert Einstein

‘Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.’ – Albert Einstein

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

‘You can’t blame gravity for falling in love.’ – Albert Einstein

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

‘There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.’ – 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

‘Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.’ – Albert Einstein

‘Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.’ – Albert Einstein

‘Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.’ – Albert Einstein

‘Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.’ – Albert Einstein

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

‘Before God we are all equally wise – and equally foolish.’ – Albert Einstein

‘Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.’ – 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

‘Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.’ – Albert Einstein

‘Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.’ – Albert Einstein

‘Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.’ – 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 gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.’ – Albert Einstein

‘The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.’ – Albert Einstein

‘When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That’s relativity.’ – Albert Einstein

‘Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.’ – Albert Einstein

‘Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.’ – Albert Einstein

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

‘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.’ – Albert Einstein

‘If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.’ – 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.’ – Albert Einstein

‘No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.’ – Albert Einstein

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

‘The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.’ – Albert Einstein

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

‘You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.’ – Albert Einstein

‘We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.’ – Albert Einstein

‘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.’ – 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

‘Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.’ – Albert Einstein

‘Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.’ – Albert Einstein

‘Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.’ – Albert Einstein

‘Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.’ – Albert Einstein

‘We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.’ – Albert Einstein

‘Information is not knowledge.’ – Albert Einstein

‘It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.’ – Albert Einstein

‘I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.’ – Albert Einstein

‘The only real valuable thing is intuition.’ – Albert Einstein

‘Imagination is more important than knowledge.’ – Albert Einstein

‘The environment is everything that isn’t me.’ – Albert Einstein

‘Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.’ – Albert Einstein

‘I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.’ – Albert Einstein

‘Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.’ – Albert Einstein

‘When the solution is simple, God is answering.’ – Albert Einstein

‘The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there’s no risk of accident for someone who’s dead.’ – Albert Einstein

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

‘It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.’ – Albert Einstein

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

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

‘Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today’s events.’ – Albert Einstein

‘Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.’ – Albert Einstein

‘Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.’ – Albert Einstein

‘All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.’ – Albert Einstein

‘The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.’ – Albert Einstein

‘Anyone who doesn’t take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.’ – Albert Einstein

‘God always takes the simplest way.’ – Albert Einstein

‘An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.’ – Albert Einstein

‘We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.’ – Albert Einstein

‘That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.’ – Albert Einstein

‘To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.’ – Albert Einstein

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

‘People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.’ – Albert Einstein

‘There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.’ – 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

‘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

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

‘The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.’ – Albert Einstein

‘Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one’s living at it.’ – Albert Einstein

‘The faster you go, the shorter you are.’ – Albert Einstein

‘True religion is real living; living with all one’s soul, with all one’s goodness and righteousness.’ – Albert Einstein

‘Mozart’s music is so pure and beautiful that I see it as a reflection of the inner beauty of the universe.’ – Albert Einstein

‘You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I’ve only ever had one.’ – Albert Einstein

‘True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.’ – Albert Einstein

‘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.’ – Albert Einstein

‘Joy in looking and comprehending is nature’s most beautiful gift.’ – Albert Einstein

‘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.’ – Albert Einstein

‘I love to travel, but hate to arrive.’ – Albert Einstein

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

‘God does not play dice.’ – Albert Einstein

‘I want to go when I want. It is tasteless to prolong life artificially. I have done my share; it is time to go. I will do it elegantly.’ – Albert Einstein

‘The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.’ – Albert Einstein

‘Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.’ – Albert Einstein

‘Force always attracts men of low morality.’ – Albert Einstein

‘It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.’ – Albert Einstein

‘Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.’ – Albert Einstein

‘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.’ – Albert Einstein

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

‘Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.’ – Albert Einstein

‘The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.’ – Albert Einstein

‘I never think of the future – it comes soon enough.’ – Albert Einstein

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

‘You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.’ – Albert Einstein

‘Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.’ – 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

‘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

‘Never lose a holy curiosity.’ – Albert Einstein

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

‘Love is a better teacher than duty.’ – Albert Einstein

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

‘Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.’ – 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

‘Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.’ – Albert Einstein

‘We should take care not to make the intellect our goal; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.’ – Albert Einstein

‘I very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express it in words afterwards.’ – 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

‘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.’ – Albert Einstein

‘I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.’ – Albert Einstein

‘As far as I’m concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.’ – Albert Einstein

‘Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.’ – Albert Einstein

‘Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute.’ – 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 man of science is a poor philosopher.’ – Albert Einstein

‘There could be no fairer destiny for any physical theory than that it should point the way to a more comprehensive theory in which it lives on as a limiting case.’ – Albert Einstein

‘There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.’ – Albert Einstein

‘I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.’ – Albert Einstein

‘The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.’ – Albert Einstein

‘I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.’ – Albert Einstein

‘The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.’ – Albert Einstein

‘The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.’ – Albert Einstein

‘God may be subtle, but he isn’t plain mean.’ – Albert Einstein

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

‘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.’ – Albert Einstein

‘I have just got a new theory of eternity.’ – Albert Einstein

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

‘In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself.’ – Albert Einstein

‘I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.’ – 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

‘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.’ – Albert Einstein

‘One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.’ – Albert Einstein

‘Morality is of the highest importance – but for us, not for God.’ – Albert Einstein

‘It is only to the individual that a soul is given.’ – Albert Einstein

‘Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.’ – Albert Einstein

‘I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.’ – Albert Einstein

‘If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.’ – Albert Einstein

‘The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.’ – Albert Einstein

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

‘It was the experience of mystery – even if mixed with fear – that engendered religion.’ – Albert Einstein

‘To the Master’s honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton’s ground.’ – Albert Einstein

‘Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.’ – Albert Einstein