Albert Einstein Quotes

Albert Einstein - “A human being is a part of the whole, called by us the 'universe', a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separate from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. Nobody is able to achieve this completely, but the striving for such achievement is in itself a part of the liberation and a foundation for inner security.”

Albert Einstein - “If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.”

Albert Einstein - “A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.”

Albert Einstein - “He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.”

Albert Einstein - “Written in old age: I have never belonged wholeheartedly to a country, a state, nor to a circle of friends, nor even to my own family. When I was still a rather precocious young man, I already realized most vividly the futility of the hopes and aspirations that most men pursue throughout their lives. Well-being and happiness never appeared to me as an absolute aim. I am even inclined to compare such moral aims to the ambitions of a pig.”

Albert Einstein - “I am absolutely convinced that no amount of wealth in the world can help humanity move forward, even in the hands of the most devoted worker. The example of great and pure individuals is the only thing that can lead us to noble thoughts and deeds. Money only appeals to selfishness and irresistably invites abuse. Can anyone imagine Moses, Jesus or Ghandi armed with the money-bags of Carnegie?”

Albert Einstein - “How despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.”

Albert Einstein - “All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.”

Albert Einstein - “Only two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”

10.

Albert Einstein - “The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.”

11.

Albert Einstein - “If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.”

12.

Albert Einstein - “All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.”

13.

Albert Einstein - “To a student: Dear Miss — I have read about sixteen pages of your manuscript ... I suffered exactly the same treatment at the hands of my teachers who disliked me for my independence and passed over me when they wanted assistants.... Keep your manuscript for your sons and daughters, in order that they may derive consolation from it and not give a damn for what their teachers tell them or think of them.... There is too much education altogether.”

14.

Albert Einstein - “It is the theory that decides what can be observed.”

15.

Albert Einstein - “All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field.”

16.

Albert Einstein - “It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.”

17.

Albert Einstein - “If A equal success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.”

18.

Albert Einstein - “Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs.”

19.

Albert Einstein - “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.”

20.

Albert Einstein - “It is only to the individual that a soul is given.”

21.

Albert Einstein - “The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.”

22.

Albert Einstein - “God always takes the simplest way.”

23.

Albert Einstein - “Of what significance is one's existence, one is basically unaware. What does a fish know about the water in which he swims all his life? The bitter and the sweet come from outside. The hard from within, from one's own efforts. For the most part I do what my own nature drives me to do. It is embarrassing to earn such respect and love for it.”

24.

Albert Einstein - “The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.”

25.

Albert Einstein - “Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.”

Hits 1 to 25 of 229