Albert Einstein Quotes
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I have only two rules which I regard as principles of conduct. The first is: Have no rules. The second is: Be independent of the opinion of others.
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I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism, have brought me to my ideas.
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It is every man's obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it.
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Games are the most elevated form of investigation.
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We must not conceal from ourselves that no improvement in the present depressing situation is possible without a severe struggle; for the handful of those who are really determined to do something is minute in comparison with the mass of the lukewarm and the misguided. And those who have an interest in keeping the machinery of war going are a very powerful body; they will stop at nothing to make public opinion subservient to their murderous ends.
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The illusion that we are separate from one another is an optical delusion of our consciousness.
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The leaves and the light are one.
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Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.
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When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity.
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If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, then man would have only four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man.
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The restriction of knowledge to an elite group destroys the spirit of the society and leads to its intellectual impoverishment.
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The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.
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The truth isn't always a blinding light. Sometimes it's a deep and dazzling darkness, that illuminates - and burns - just as surely.
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Nothing will end war unless the peoples themselves refuse to go to war.
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The leader is one who, out of the clutter, brings simplicity... out of discord, harmony... and out of difficulty, opportunity.
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As a human being, one has been endowed with just enough intelligence to be able to see clearly how utterly inadequate that intelligence is when confronted with what exists.
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Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
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Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.
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The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.
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The state of mind which enables a man to do work of this kind is akin to that of the religious worshiper or the lover; the daily effort comes from no deliberate intention or program, but straight from the heart.
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Dancers are the athletes of God.
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The more I study science, the more I believe in God.
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Hitler appeared, a man with limited intellectual abilities and unfit for any useful work, bursting with envy and bitterness against all whom circumstance and nature had favored over him....In his desperate ambition for power he discovered that his speeches, confused and pervaded with hate as they were, received wild acclaim by those whose situation and orientation resembled his own. He picked up this human flotsam on the streets and in the taverns and organized them around himself. This is the way he launched his political career.
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Everyone sits in the prison of his own ideas; he must burst it open, and that in his youth, and so try to test his ideas on reality.