Albert Einstein Quotes
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The world we have made as a result of the level of thinking we have done thus far creates problems that we cannot solve at the same level at which we have created them.... We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if humankind is to survive.
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Empathy is patiently and sincerely seeing the world through the other person's eyes. It is not learned in school; it is cultivated over a lifetime.
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Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.
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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.
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Let every man judge according to his own standards, by what he has himself read, not by what others tell him.
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To dwell on the things that depress or anger us does not help in overcoming them. One must knock them down alone.
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Our lives will be measured by what we do for others.
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When I was young I found out that the big toe always ends up making a hole in a sock. So I stopped wearing socks.
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I do not think that religion is the most important element. We are held together rather by a body of tradition, handed down from father to son, which the child imbibes with his mother's milk. The atmosphere of our infancy predetermines our idiosyncrasies and predilections.
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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.
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Growth comes through analogy; through seeing how things connect, rather than only seeing how they might be different.
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If I had an hour to solve a problem and my life depended on the solution, I would spend the first 55 minutes determining the proper question to ask, for once I know the proper question, I could solve the problem in less than five minutes.
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The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest.
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Striving for peace and preparing for war are incompatible with each other, and in our time more so than ever.
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When I was still a rather precocious young man, I already realized most vividly the futility of the hopes and aspirations that most men pursue throughout their lives.
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Often in evolutionary processes a species must adapt to new conditions in order to survive.
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A successful man is he who receives a great deal from his fellow men, usually incomparably more than corresponds to his service to them. The value of a man, however, should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.
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My religiosity consists in a humble admiration of the infinitely superior spirit that reveals itself in the little that we, with our weak and transitory understanding, can comprehend of reality. Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.
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If quantum theory is correct, it signifies the end of physics as a science.
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Be a voice not an echo.
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People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.
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Humankind's desire for peace can be realized only by the creation of a world government.
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We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.
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If one tries to navigate unknown waters one runs the risk of shipwreck.