Albert Einstein Quotes
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I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious. The important thing is to not stop questioning.
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Without "ethical culture", there is no salvation for humanity.
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It is only to the individual that a soul is given.
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We will never be able to solve the problems of tomorrow with the thinking of today.
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Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder, to search for the truth. Have holy curiosity. Make your life worth living.
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Don't wait for miracles, your whole life is a miracle.
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The truth of a theory can never be proven, for one never knows if future experience will contradict its conclusions.
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Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.
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Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions that differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
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Mere thinking cannot reveal to us the highest purpose.
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Man, surrounded by facts, permitting himself no surprise, no intuitive flash, no great hypothesis, no risk, is in a locked cell. Ignorance cannot seal the mind and imagination more securely.
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Don't do anything that goes against your conscience, even if your country says so.
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My life is a simple thing that would interest no one. It is a known fact that I was born, and that is all that is necessary.
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Time has no independent existence apart from the order of events by which we measure it.
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If one tries to navigate unknown waters one runs the risk of shipwreck.
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Every thoughtful, well-meaning and conscientious human being should assume in time of peace, the solemn and unconditional obligation not to participate in any war, for any reason or to lend support of any kind, whether direct or indirect.
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A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.
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In one's youth every person and every event appear to be unique. With age one becomes much more aware that similar events recur. Later on, one is less often delighted or surprised, but also less disappointed than in earlier years.
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Happiness, as a pursuit, is suitable only for pigs.
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When we first got married, we made a pact. It was this: In our life together, it was decided I would make all of the big decisions and my wife would make all of the little decisions. For fifty years, we have held true to that agreement. I believe that is the reason for the success in our marriage. However, the strange thing is that in fifty years, there hasn’t been one big decision.
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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.
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I am satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of life.
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Academic chairs are many, but wise and noble teachers are few; lecture-rooms are numerous and large, but the number of young people who genuinely thirst after truth and justice is small.
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How insidious Nature is when one is trying to get at it experimentally.