Einstein Quotes Total Quotes: 151 |
| "The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge" | |
| Author: Albert Einstein | |
| "Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion" | |
| Author: Albert Einstein | |
| "You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only dif" | |
| Author: Albert Einstein | |
| "One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distaste" | |
| Author: Albert Einstein | |
| "..one of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal " | |
| Author: Albert Einstein | |
| "He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at comm" | |
| Author: Albert Einstein | |
| "A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a ki" | |
| Author: Albert Einstein | |
| "Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts" | |
| Author: Albert Einstein | |
| "A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem. " | |
| Author: Albert Einstein | |
| "A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new." | |
| Author: Albert Einstein | |
| "A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy? " | |
| Author: Albert Einstein | |
| "A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy? " | |
| Author: Albert Einstein | |
| "All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree" | |
| Author: Albert Einstein | |
| "All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual." | |
| Author: Albert Einstein | |
| "All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions." | |
| Author: Albert Einstein | |
| "An empty stomach is not a good political adviser. " | |
| Author: Albert Einstein | |
| "Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools" | |
| Author: Albert Einstein | |
| "Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction" | |
| Author: Albert Einstein | |
| "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction" | |
| Author: Albert Einstein | |
| "Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves" | |
| Author: Albert Einstein | |
| "Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking" | |
| Author: Albert Einstein | |
| "Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either" | |
| Author: Albert Einstein | |
| "Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new" | |
| Author: Albert Einstein | |
| "As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue" | |
| Author: Albert Einstein | |
| "As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality" | |
| Author: Albert Einstein | |
| "Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish" | |
| Author: Albert Einstein | |
| "Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen" | |
| Author: Albert Einstein | |
| "Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations" | |
| Author: Albert Einstein | |
| "Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age" | |
| Author: Albert Einstein | |
| "Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater" | |
| Author: Albert Einstein | |
| "Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school" | |
| Author: Albert Einstein | |
| "Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized" | |
| Author: Albert Einstein | |
| "Everything should be as simple as it is, but not simpler" | |
| Author: Albert Einstein | |
| "Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted" | |
| Author: Albert Einstein | |
| "Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts" | |
| Author: Albert Einstein | |
| "Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions" | |
| Author: Albert Einstein | |
| "Force always attracts men of low morality" | |
| Author: Albert Einstein | |
| "God always takes the simplest way" | |
| Author: Albert Einstein | |
| "God does not play dice" | |
| Author: Albert Einstein | |
| "God may be subtle, but he isn't plain mean" | |
| Author: Albert Einstein | |
| "Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love" | |
| Author: Albert Einstein | |
| "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds" | |
| Author: Albert Einstein | |
| "He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed" | |
| Author: Albert Einstein | |
| "He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice" | |
| Author: Albert Einstein | |
| "He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice" | |
| Author: Albert Einstein | |
| "Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them" | |
| Author: Albert Einstein | |
| "Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it" | |
| Author: Albert Einstein | |
| "I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion" | |
| Author: Albert Einstein | |
| "I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination" | |
| Author: Albert Einstein | |
| "I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world." | |
| Author: Albert Einstein | |
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