Albert Einstein Quotes
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Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events.
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Who would have thought around 1900 that in fifty years time we would know so much more and understand so much less.
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Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.
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The importance of a problem should not be judged by the number of pages devoted to it.
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Only the Catholic Church protested against the Hitlerian onslaught on liberty. Up till then I had not been interested in the Church, but today I feel a great admiration for the Church, which alone has had the courage to struggle for spiritual truth and moral liberty.
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There is nothing divine about morality, it is a purely human affair.
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It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
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I made one great mistake in my life-when I signed the letter to President Roosevelt recommending that atom bombs be made but there was some justification-the danger that the Germans would make them.
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A life directed chiefly toward the fulfillment of personal desires will sooner or later always lead to bitter disappointment.
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Creativity is Inspiration having fun.
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To stimulate creativity one must develop childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition.
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Hunger, love, pain, fear are some of those inner forces which rule the individual's instinct for self preservation.
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Regarding sex education: no secrets!
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Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.
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Our defense is not in our armaments, nor in science, nor in going underground. Our defense is in law and order.
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The only way to escape the corruptible effect of praise is to go on working.
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Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.
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The important things are always simple.
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It may be possible to fight intolerance, stupidity, and fanaticism seperately, but when they come together there is no hope.
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Measured objectively, what a man can wrest from Truth by passionate striving is utterly infinitesimal. But the striving frees us from the bonds of the self and makes us comrades of those who are the best and the greatest.
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Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
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Degeneracy follows every autocratic system of violence, for violence inevitably attracts moral inferiors. Time has proven that illustrious tyrants are succeeded by scoundrels.
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Peace comes through understanding.
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Try first to be a man of value; success will follow.