Albert Einstein Quotes
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If the workers of this world, men and women, decide not to manufacture and transport ammunition, it would end war for all time. We must do that. Dedicate our lives to drying up the source of war; ammunition factories.
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There's been a quantum leap technologically in our age, but unless there's another quantum leap in human relations, unless we learn to live in a new way towards one another, there will be a catastrophe.
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One must shy away from questionable undertakings, even when they bear a high-sounding name.
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There are actually two approaches to reside your daily life. One is as if absolutely nothing is really a miracle. The other is as if every little thing is a wonder.
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To get to know a country, you must have direct contact with the earth. It's futile to gaze at the world through a car window.
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Man tries to make for himself in the fashion that suits him best a simplified and intelligible picture of the world; he then tries to some extent to substitute this cosmos of his for the world of experience, and thus to overcome it. This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the natural scientists do, each in his own fashion. Each makes this cosmos and its construction the pivot of his emotional life, in order to find in this way peace and security which he can not find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience.
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It would be better if you began to teach others only after you yourself have learned something.
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What interests me most is whether God could have made the world differently.
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I know what it's like to see one's mother go through the agony of death and be unable to help; there is no consolation. We all have to bear such heavy burdens, for they are unalterably linked to life.
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One should not pursue goals that are easily achieved. One must develop an instinct for what one can just barely achieve through one’s greatest efforts.
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Don't let your brain interfere with your heart.
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What you can't imagine, you can't discover.
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Imagination is more valuable than information.
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It is also a natural thing for a serious young man that he should form for himself as precise an idea as possible of the goal of his desires.
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The world is not full of evil because of those who do wrong. It is full of evil because of those who do nothing.
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Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.
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So long as there are men, there will be wars.
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Mankind must give up war in the Atomic Era. What is at stake is the life or death of humanity.
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There's a genius in all of us.
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I prefer to make up my own quotes and attribute them to very smart people, so that I can use them to win arguments.
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I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
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No path leads from a knowledge of that which is to that which should be.
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In the matter of physics, the first lessons should contain nothing but what is experimental and interesting to see. A pretty experiment is in itself often more valuable than twenty formulae extracted from our minds.
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There is no greater satisfaction for a just and well-meaning person than the knowledge that he has devoted his best energies to the service of the good cause.