Albert Einstein Quotes
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Student is not a container you have to fill but a torch you have to light up.
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My sense of god is my sense of wonder about the universe.
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Do you really believe that the moon isn’t there when nobody looks?
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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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If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.
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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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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 you want different results, do not do the same things.
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Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.
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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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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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If I had 20 days to solve a problem, I would take 19 days to define it.
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The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
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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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The leader is one who, out of the clutter, brings simplicity... out of discord, harmony... and out of difficulty, opportunity.
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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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Any fool can know. The point is to understand.
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Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.
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Dancers are the athletes of God.
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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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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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If you can't explain something simply, you don't know enough about it.
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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.