Albert Einstein Quotes
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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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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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Even on the most solemn occasions I got away without wearing socks and hid that lack of civilisation in high boots.
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One must shy away from questionable undertakings, even when they bear a high-sounding name.
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The only way to escape the corruptible effect of praise is to go on working.
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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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Never let yourself be seduced by any problem, no matter how difficult.
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Generations to come, it may well be, will scarce believe that such a man as this one ever in flesh and blood walked upon this Earth.
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We know nothing at all. All our knowledge is but the knowledge of schoolchildren. The real nature of things we shall never know.
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Scientists believe that every occurrence, including the affairs of human beings, is due to the laws of nature. Therefore a scientist cannot be inclined to believe that the course of events can be influenced by prayer, that is, by a supernaturally manifested wish.
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What you can't imagine, you can't discover.
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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.
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Yes, we now have to divide up our time like that, between politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.
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Don't dream of being a good person, be a human being is valuable and gives value to life.
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Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
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Common sense consists of those layers of prejudice laid down before the age of 18.
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What interests me most is whether God could have made the world differently.
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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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I was originally supposed to become an engineer but the thought of having to expend my creative energy on things that make practical everyday life even more refined, with a loathsome capital gain as the goal, was unbearable to me.
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The payment of the worker is not determined by the value of his product.
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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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He who finds a thought that lets us a little deeper into the eternal mystery of nature has been granted great peace.
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We must begin to inculcate our children against militarism by educating them in the spirit of pacifism. Our schoolbooks glorify war and conceal it's horror. I would teach peace rather than war.
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The future is of greater interest to me than the past, since that is where I intend to spend the rest of my life.