Albert Einstein Quotes
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Mathematics are well and good but Nature keeps dragging us around by the nose.
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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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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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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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I know little about nature and hardly anything about men.
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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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Education is not received. It is achieved.
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A new type of thinking is essential if mankind is to survive and move toward higher levels.
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Mere thinking cannot reveal to us the highest purpose.
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If someone feels that he has never made a mistake in his life, it only means that he has never tried anything new in his life.
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Knowledge is dead; the school, however, serves the living.
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If I were to start taking care of my grooming, I would no longer be my own self.
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There is, however, a somber point in the social outlook of Americans. Their sense of equality and human dignity is mainly limited to people of white skin.... The more I feel like an American, the more the situation pains me.
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The armament industry is indeed one of the greatest dangers that beset mankind. It is the hidden evil power.
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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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I am satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of life.
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Most people see what is, and never see what can be.
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Older men start wars, but younger men fight them.
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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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Imagination is the highest form of research.
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The most powerful force in the world is compound interest.
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How can this cosmic religious experience be communicated from man to man, if it cannot lead to a definite conception of God or to a theology? It seems to me that the most important function of art and of science is to arouse and keep alive this feeling in those who are receptive.
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More the knowledge lesser the Ego, lesser the knowledge, more the Ego.
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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.