Albert Einstein Quotes
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Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
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The equation for ego is: One over Knowledge.
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I love to travel, but I hate to arrive.
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The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
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God may be subtle, but he isn't plain mean.
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How can any educated person stay away from the Greeks? I have always been far more interested in them than in science.
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Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.
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The economic anarchy of capitalist society as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evil.
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Adversity introduces a man to himself.
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I assert that the cosmic religious experience is the strongest and the noblest driving force behind scientific research.
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Taken on the whole, I would believe that Gandhi's views were the most enlightened of all the political men in our time. We should strive to do things in his spirit... not to use violence in fighting for our cause, but by non-participation in what we believe is evil.
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I do not much believe in education. Each person ought to be his or her own model, however frightful that may be.
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A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
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The power of imagination is the ultimate creative power.. no doubt about that. While knowledge defines all we currently know and understand.. imagination points to all we might yet discover and create. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions.
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The legs are the wheels of creativity.
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Intuitive powers played a central role in my scientific work, not wild speculation, yet a valued resource when no other approach was available.
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I am content in my later years. I have kept my good humor and take neither myself nor the next person seriously.
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Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
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The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful, and then only for a short while.
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I don't need to know everything, I just need to know where to find it, when I need it.
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Money only appeals to selfishness and always tempts its owners irresistibly to abuse it. Can anyone imagine Moses, Jesus, or Gandhi armed with the money-bags of Carnegie?
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If the believers of the present-day religions would earnestly try to think and act in the spirit of the founders of these religions then no hostility on the basis of religion would exist among the followers of the different faiths. Even the conflicts and the realm of religion would be exposed as insignificant.
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I gang my own gait and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart; in the face of all these ties I have never lost an obstinate sense of detachment, of the need for solitude - a feeling which increases with the years.
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I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy, accompanied by an educational system which would be oriented toward social goals.