Albert Einstein Quotes
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Happiness, as a pursuit, is suitable only for pigs.
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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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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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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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The most important question a person can ask is, "Is the Universe a friendly place?
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How insidious Nature is when one is trying to get at it experimentally.
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Human beings can attain a worthy and harmonious life only if they are able to rid themselves, within the limits of human nature, of the striving for the wish fulfillment of material kinds. The goal is to raise the spiritual values of society.
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If I would follow your advice and Jesus could perceive it, he, as a Jewish teacher, surely would not approve of such behavior.
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Time is not at all what it seems. It does not flow in only one direction, and the future exists simultaneously with the past.
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Compassionate people are geniuses in the art of living, more necessary to the dignity, security, and joy of humanity than the discoverers of knowledge.
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True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.
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We are inclined to overemphasize the material influences in history. The Russians especially make this mistake. Intellectual values and ethnic influences, tradition and emotional factors are equally important. If this were not the case, Europe would today be a federated state, not a madhouse of nationalism.
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Humiliation and mental oppression by ignorant and selfish teachers wreak havoc in the youthful mind that can never be undone and often exert a baleful influence in later life.
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Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.
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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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I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.
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Education is what is left after you've forgotten everything you've learned.
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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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It is better to believe than to disbelieve; in doing you bring everything to the realm of possibility.
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Marriage is but slavery made to appear civilized.
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Science has been charged with undermining morality, but the charge is unjust.
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One should never impose one's views on a problem; one should rather study it, and in time a solution will reveal itself.
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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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Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.