Albert Einstein Quotes
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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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Imagination without knowledge may create beautiful things, knowledge without imagination can create only perfect ones.
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Falling in love is not at all the most stupid thing that people do - but gravitation cannot be held responsible for it.
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How insidious Nature is when one is trying to get at it experimentally.
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Life isn't worth living, unless it is lived for someone else.
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One should respect an honest person even if he expresses opinions differing from one's own.
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Compound interest on debt was the banker's greatest invention, to capture, and enslave, a productive society.
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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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I am satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of life.
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Nature hides her secrets because of her essential loftiness, but not by means of ruse.
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All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.
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You see, when a blind beetle crawls over the surface of a globe he doesn't notice that the track he has covered is curved. I was lucky enough to have spotted it.
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Three great forces rule the world: stupidity, fear and greed.
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One lives one's life under constant tension, until it's time to go for good.
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Assumptions are made and most assumptions are wrong.
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Intelligence is not the ability to store information, but to know where to find it.
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He who has never been deceived by a lie does not know the meaning of bliss.
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I believe the most important mission of the state is to protect the individual and make it possible for him to develop into a creative personality.
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If I had foreseen Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I would have torn up my formula in 1905.
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The same thinking that has led you to where you are is not going to lead you to where you want to go.
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Happiness, as a pursuit, is suitable only for pigs.
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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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The basic laws of the universe are simple, but because our senses are limited, we can't grasp them. There is a pattern in creation.
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Our entire much-praised technological progress, and civilization generally, could be compared to an axe in the hand of a pathological criminal.