Albert Einstein Quotes
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The leaves and the light are one.
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I believe in one thing-that only a life lived for others is a life worth living.
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The illusion that we are separate from one another is an optical delusion of our consciousness.
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Everyday is an opportunity to make a new happy ending.
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Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem-in my opinion-to characterize our age.
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Dancers are the athletes of God.
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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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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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Any fool can know. The point is to understand.
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What I see in Nature is a grand design that we can understand only imperfectly, one with which a responsible person must look at with humility.
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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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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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Force always attracts men of low morality.
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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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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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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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Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
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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 leader is one who, out of the clutter, brings simplicity... out of discord, harmony... and out of difficulty, opportunity.
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Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.
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Had I known that the Germans would not succeed in producing an atomic bomb, I would not have lifted a finger.
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The time comes in life when we have read enough. It's time to stop reading. It's time to lay down the books and write.
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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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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.