Albert Einstein Quotes
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It is harder to crack prejudice than an atom.
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Live with purpose. Don't let people or things around you get you down.
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A problem defined, is a problem half solved.
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The greatest knowledge a person can possess is the address of the local library.
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Not until the creation and maintenance of decent conditions of life for all men are recognized and accepted as a common obligation of all men and all countries — not until then shall we, with a certain degree of justification, be able to speak of mankind as civilized.
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The really good music, whether of the East or of the West, cannot be analyzed.
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I now see the necessity of a beginning.
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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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God always takes the simplest way.
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Nothing causes more consternation in a group of hypocrits than one honest man.
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The step between genius and insanity is very short.
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To take those fools in clerical garb seriously is to show them too much honor.
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The world as we see it is only the world as we see it. Others may see it differently.
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Everything you can imagine, nature has already created.
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The conflict that exists today is no more than an old-style struggle for power, once again presented to mankind in semireligious trappings. The difference is that, this time, the development of atomic power has imbued the struggle with a ghostly character; for both parties know and admit that, should the quarrel deteriorate into actual war, mankind is doomed.
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Our world faces a crisis as yet unperceived by those possessing power to make great decisions for good or evil.
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An oligarchy of private capital cannot be effectively checked even by a democratically organized political society because under existing conditions, private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information.
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Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
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A world government with powers adequate to guarantee security is not a remote ideal for the distant future. It is an urgent necessity if our civilization is to survive.
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Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.
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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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Reason is intuition's servant.
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One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike-and yet it is the most precious thing we have.
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The man with the greatest soul will always face the greatest war with the low minded person.