Albert Einstein Quotes
-
Life is a preparation for the future; and the best preparation for the future is to live as if there were none.
-
Keep on sowing your seed, for you never know which will grow - perhaps it all will.
-
The greatest tragedy of human existence is the illusion of separateness.
-
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.
-
I see a clock, but I cannot envision the clockmaker. The human mind is unable to conceive of the four dimensions, so how can it conceive of a God, before whom a thousand years and a thousand dimensions are as one?
-
The effort to strive for truth has to precede all other efforts.
-
Be a voice not an echo.
-
An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.
-
The most difficult part about understanding something is that we understand it all.
-
When a man, after long years of searching, chances upon a thought which discloses something of the beauty of this mysterious universe, he should not therefore be personally celebrated. He is already sufficiently paid by his experience of seeking and finding.
-
The ancients knew something, which we seem to have forgotten.
-
Imagination is the most powerful force in the universe.
-
A theory is the more impressive the greater the simplicity of its premises is, the more different kinds of things it relates, and the more extended is its area of applicability.
-
Growth comes through analogy; through seeing how things connect, rather than only seeing how they might be different.
-
Problems cannot be solved by thinking within the framework in which the problems were created.
-
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.
-
We cannot resolve the problems of the world by unsing the same techniques that have created them.
-
After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved science and art tend to coalesce in aesthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are artists as well.
-
Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder, to search for the truth. Have holy curiosity. Make your life worth living.
-
Those who believe that politics and religion do not mix, understand neither.
-
Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
-
It is impossible to get anywhere without sinning against reason.
-
If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects.
-
The more a country makes military weapons, the more insecure it becomes: if you have weapons, you become a target for attack.