Albert Einstein Quotes
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Chess holds its master in its own bonds, shackling the mind and brain so that the inner freedom of the very strongest must suffer.
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Good acts are like good poems. One may easily get their drift, but they are not rationally understood.
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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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Failure is success in progress.
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Man has an intense desire for assured knowledge.
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It is humankind's duty to respect all life, not only animals have feelings but even also trees and plants.
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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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Most people go on living their everyday life: half-frightened, half indifferent, they behold the ghostly tragic-comedy that is being performed on the international stage before the eyes and ears of the world.
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What is essential in the life of a man of my kind is what he thinks and how he thinks, and not what he does or suffers.
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Where there is love, there is no imposition.
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Striving for social justice is the most valuable thing to do in life.
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Then I would have felt sorry for the dear Lord. The theory is correct.
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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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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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What is significant in one's own existence one is hardly aware, and it certainly should not bother the other fellow. What does a fish know about the water in which he swims all his life?
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The future is not a gift-it is an achievement.
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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 possibility in every difficulty.
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I don't know what weapons will be used in the Third World War. But I can tell you what they'll use in the Fourth - rocks!
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Time is an illusion.
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A human being is part of a whole called by us the universe.
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I'm not a genius. I'm just passionately curious.
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True knowledge comes with deep understanding of a topic and its inner workings.
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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.