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Chess holds its master in its own bonds, shackling the mind and brain so that the inner freedom of the very strongest must suffer.
Albert Einstein
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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.
Albert Einstein
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One always likes to do the things for which one has ability.
Albert Einstein
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The stupid are invincible.
Albert Einstein
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It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
Albert Einstein
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I do not need any promise of eternity to be happy. My eternity is now. I have only one interest: to fulfill my purpose here where I am. This purpose is not given me by my parents or my surroundings. It is induced by some unknown factors. These factors make me a part of eternity.
Albert Einstein
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There are six-million shots in the game of pool.
Albert Einstein
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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.
Albert Einstein
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It is my inner conviction that the development of science seeks in the main to satisfy the longing for pure knowledge.
Albert Einstein
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A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.
Albert Einstein
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The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. The religion which based on experience, which refuses dogmatic. If there's any religion that would cope the scientific needs it will be Buddhism.
Albert Einstein
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As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable.
Albert Einstein
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If a theory can not be explained to a child, then the theory is probably worthless.
Albert Einstein
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You can't resolve a dilemma with all the very same mind that made it.
Albert Einstein
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The most beautiful fate of a physical theory is to point the way to the establishment of a more inclusive theory, in which it lives on as a limiting case.
Albert Einstein
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It is always delightful when a great and beautiful idea proves to be consonant with reality.
Albert Einstein
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No problem is ever solved in the same consciousness thas was used to create it.
Albert Einstein
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I have second thoughts. Maybe God is malicious.
Albert Einstein
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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.
Albert Einstein
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Don't do anything that goes against your conscience, even if your country says so.
Albert Einstein
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When I'm judging a theory, I ask myself whether, if I were God, I would have arranged the world in such a way.
Albert Einstein
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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.
Albert Einstein
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The sole function of education... to open the way to thinking and knowing, and the school, as the outstanding organ for the people's education, must serve that end exclusively.
Albert Einstein
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Imagination without knowledge may create beautiful things, knowledge without imagination can create only perfect ones.
Albert Einstein
