Albert Einstein Quotes
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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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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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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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Hail to the man who went through life always helping others, knowing no fear, and to whom aggressiveness and resentment are alien. Such is the stuff of which the great moral leaders are made.
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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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The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest.
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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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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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Our lives will be measured by what we do for others.
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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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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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Often in evolutionary processes a species must adapt to new conditions in order to survive.
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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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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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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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Be a voice not an echo.
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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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Humankind's desire for peace can be realized only by the creation of a world government.
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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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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
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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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If quantum theory is correct, it signifies the end of physics as a science.
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People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.
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I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.