Albert Einstein Quotes
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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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Man has an intense desire for assured 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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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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Imagination Is More Powerful Than Knowledge Because Knowledhes Is Limited But Imagination Is Without Boundaries.
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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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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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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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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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Striving for social justice is the most valuable thing to do in life.
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Failure is success in progress.
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Then I would have felt sorry for the dear Lord. The theory is correct.
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Where there is love, there is no imposition.
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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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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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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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In a healthy nation there is a kind of dramatic balance between the will of the people and the government, which prevents its degeneration into tyranny.
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A human being is part of a whole called by us the universe.
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The trite objects of human efforts-possessions, superficial success, luxury-have always seemed contemptible to me.
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I'm not a genius. I'm just passionately curious.
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To understand the world one must not be worrying about one's self.