Albert Einstein Quotes
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Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
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My sense of god is my sense of wonder about the universe.
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It would seem that men always need some idiotic fiction in the name of which they can hate one another. Once it was religion. Now it is the State.
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I have only two rules which I regard as principles of conduct. The first is: Have no rules. The second is: Be independent of the opinion of others.
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Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.
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Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.
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I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism, have brought me to my ideas.
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If I had 20 days to solve a problem, I would take 19 days to define it.
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Everyone sits in the prison of his own ideas; he must burst it open, and that in his youth, and so try to test his ideas on reality.
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If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, then man would have only four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man.
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I believe in one thing-that only a life lived for others is a life worth living.
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The time comes in life when we have read enough. It's time to stop reading. It's time to lay down the books and write.
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If you want your children to be smart, tell them stories. If you want them to be really smart, tell them more stories. If you want your children to be brilliant, tell them even more stories.
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I am happy because I want nothing from anyone. I do not care for money. Decorations, titles or distinctions mean nothing to me. I do not crave praise. The only thing that gives me pleasure, apart from my work, my violin and my sailboat, is the appreciation of my fellow workers.
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If you want different results, do not do the same things.
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It is every man's obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it.
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Jesus is too colossal for the pen of phrasemongers, however artful. No man can dispose of Christianity with a bon mot.
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The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
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The truth isn't always a blinding light. Sometimes it's a deep and dazzling darkness, that illuminates - and burns - just as surely.
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Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.
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I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking.
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The leader is one who, out of the clutter, brings simplicity... out of discord, harmony... and out of difficulty, opportunity.
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Art is standing with one hand extended into the universe and one hand extended into the world, and letting ourselves be a conduit for passing energy.
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Had I known that the Germans would not succeed in producing an atomic bomb, I would not have lifted a finger.