Albert Einstein Quotes
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Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it ... he who doesn't ... pays it.
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There is possibility in every difficulty.
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Time is an illusion.
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It is impossible to get out of a problem by using the same kind of thinking that it took to get into it.
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I'm not a genius. I'm just passionately curious.
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I have faith in the universe, for it is rational. Law underlies each happening. And I have faith in my purpose here on earth. I have faith in my intuition, the language of my conscience, but I have no faith in speculation about Heaven and Hell. I'm concerned with this time-here and now.
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The greatest knowledge a person can possess is the address of the local library.
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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 finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. Herein lies the germ of all art and all true science. Anyone to whom this feeling is alien, who is no longer capable of wonderment and lives in a state of fear is a dead man.
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If you're not sure why you're doing something, you can never do enough of it. Imagination is more important than knowledge.
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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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True knowledge comes with deep understanding of a topic and its inner workings.
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A human being is part of a whole called by us the universe.
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Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
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The step between genius and insanity is very short.
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School failed me, and I failed the school. It bored me. The teachers behaved like sergeants. I wanted to learn what I wanted to know, but they wanted me to learn for the exam. What I hated most was the competitive system there, and especially sports. Because of this, I wasn't worth anything, and several times they suggested I leave.
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Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. How on earth can you explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love? Put your hand on a stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with that special girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.
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Combinatory play seems to be the essential feature in productive thought - before there is any connection with logical construction in words or other kinds of signs which can be communicated to others.
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Live with purpose. Don't let people or things around you get you down.
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Nothing causes more consternation in a group of hypocrits than one honest man.
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A truly rational theory would allow us to deduce the elementary particles and not be forced to state them a priori.
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Arrows of hate have been aimed at me too, but they have never hit me, because somehow they belonged to another world with which I have no connection whatsoever.
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I believe that whatever we do or live for has its causality; it is good, however, that we cannot see through to it.
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The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.