Top 95 Albert Einstein Quotes

God may be subtle, but he isn’t plain mean.

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.

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.

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

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

Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

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

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

The faster you go, the shorter you are.

In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself.

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

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

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

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

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

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

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

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

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

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

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

It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.

Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.

The only source of knowledge is experience.

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

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

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

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.

The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.

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

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

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.

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.

I am a deeply religious nonbeliever – this is a somewhat new kind of religion.

As far as I’m concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

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

You can’t blame gravity for falling in love.

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.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

I love to travel, but hate to arrive.

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

When the solution is simple, God is answering.

Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today’s events.

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

Before God we are all equally wise – and equally foolish.

No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

The only real valuable thing is intuition.

I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.

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

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

God always takes the simplest way.

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.

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

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

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

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.

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

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

We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.

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

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.

Never lose a holy curiosity.

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

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

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

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.

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

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.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

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

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.

People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.

I have just got a new theory of eternity.

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

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

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

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