Albert Einstein Quotes
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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.
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The only thing we can be certain of in this life is that we can be certain of nothing.
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The pursuit of knowledge is more valuable than its possession.
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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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The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
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Everyone knew it was impossible, until a fool who didn't know came along and did it.
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Force always attracts men of low morality.
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Creating a new theory is not like destroying an old barn and erecting a skyscraper in its place. It is rather like climbing a mountain, gaining new and wider views, discovering unexpected connections between our starting points and its rich environment. But the point from which we started out still exists and can be seen, although it appears smaller and forms a tiny part of our broad view gained by the mastery of the obstacles on our adventurous way up.
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The world is not threatened by evil people, but by those who allow evil to take place.
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One picture is worth a thousand words.
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A great thought begins by seeing something differently, with a shift of the mind's eye.
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Learning is experience. Everything else is just information.
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Physics is essentially an intuitive and concrete science. Mathematics is only a means for expressing the laws that govern phenomena.
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The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. It should transcend a personal God and avoid dogmas and theology. Covering both the natural and the spiritual, it should be based on a religious sense arising from the experience of all things, natural and spiritual, as a meaningful unity. Buddhism answers this description.
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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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Indeed, it is not intellect, but intuition which advances humanity. Intuition tells man his purpose in this life.
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Jesus is too colossal for the pen of phrasemongers, however artful. No man can dispose of Christianity with a bon mot.
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Science has brought forth this danger, but the real problem is in the minds and hearts of men.
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Creativity is the residue of time wasted.
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Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty; it stems rather from love and devotion towards men and towards objective things.
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There is a driving force more powerful than steam, electricity and nuclear power: the will.
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No one can read the Gospels without feeling the actual presence of Jesus. His personality pulsates in every word. No myth is filled with such life.
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The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.