Albert Einstein Quotes
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The trite objects of human efforts-possessions, superficial success, luxury-have always seemed contemptible to me.
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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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Out yonder there is this huge world, which exists independently of us human beings and which stands before us like a great, eternal riddle, at least partially accessible to our inspection and thinking.
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There is possibility in every difficulty.
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I learned many years ago never to waste time trying to convince my colleagues.
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The ideas that have lighted my way have been kindness, beauty and truth.
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Where there is love, there is no imposition.
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Don't let the measurable drive out the relevant.
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True knowledge comes with deep understanding of a topic and its inner workings.
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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 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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I soon learned to scent out that which was able to lead to fundamentals and to turn aside from everything else, from the multitude of things which clutter up the mind and divert it from the essential.
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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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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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To understand the world one must not be worrying about one's self.
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The tyranny of the ignoramuses is insurmountable and assured for all time.
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Numerous are the academic professors, but rare are wise and noble teachers.
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In my experience, the best creative work is never done when one is unhappy.
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The future is not a gift-it is an achievement.
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The greatest knowledge a person can possess is the address of the local library.
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It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.
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You believe in the God who plays dice, and I in complete law and order in a world that objectively exists, and which I, in a wildly speculative way, am trying to capture. ... Even the great initial success of the quantum theory does not make me believe in the fundamental dice-game, although I am well aware that our younger colleagues interpret this as a consequence of senility. No doubt the day will come when we will see whose instinctive attitude was the correct one.
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For an idea which, at first, does not seem absurd, there is no hope.
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It is harder to crack prejudice than an atom.