Albert Einstein Quotes, Status, and Thoughts

Truth is what stands the test of experience.

Real sign of intelligence isn't knoweldge, it's imagination

The main task of the spirit is to free man from his ego.

Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.

The important things are always simple.

Imagination is the highest form of research.

A ship is always safe at the shore - but that is NOT what it is built for.

Know where to find the information and how to use it - That's the secret of success.

Life is sacred, that is to say, it is the supreme value, to which all other values are subordinate.

There is only one road to human greatness: through the school of hard knocks.

Do not grow old, no matter how long you live. Never cease to stand like curious children before the Great Mystery into which we were born.

The greater the doubt, the greater the awakening

The individual who has experienced solitude will not easily become a victim of mass suggestion.

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted in important affairs.

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

When the solution is simple, God is answering.

It is entirely possible that behind the perception of our senses, worlds are hidden of which we are unaware.

I believe that we don't need to worry about what happens after this life, as long as we do our duty here-to love and to serve.

It may be possible to fight intolerance, stupidity, and fanaticism seperately, but when they come together there is no hope.

At least once a day, allow yourself the freedom to think and dream for yourself.

Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.

If I had only one hour to save the world, I would spend fifty-five minutes defining the problem, and only five minutes finding the solution.

Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count.

A great thought begins by seeing something differently, with a shift of the mind's eye.

Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn

When I read the Bhagavad-Gita and reflect about how God created this universe everything else seems so superfluous

The true measure of a man is the degree to which he has managed to subjugate his ego.

Student is not a container you have to fill but a torch you have to light up.

The mind that opens to a new idea never returns to its original size

I refuse to engage in an intellectual battle with an unarmed man.

If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut

Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

Love brings much happiness, much more than pining brings pain.

Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.

Possessing you makes me proud & your love makes me happy. I will be doubly happy when I can press you to my heart again and see your loving eyes.

I firmly believe that love is a better teacher than a sense of duty – at least for me.

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.

I do not much believe in education. Each man ought to be his own model, however frightful that may be.

When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again.

Where there’s a will there’s a way.

The only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library.

A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

A little knowledge is dangerous. So is a lot.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

If the facts don’t fit the theory, change the facts.

No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.

Never lose a holy curiosity.

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.

Mozart’s music is so pure and beautiful that I see it as a reflection of the inner beauty of the universe.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Morality is of the highest importance – but for us, not for God.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature’s most beautiful gift.

It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.

It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

Isn’t it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

Information is not knowledge.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.

I never think of the future – it comes soon enough.

I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.

I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.

God may be subtle, but he isn’t plain mean.

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

God always takes the simplest way.

Force always attracts men of low morality.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.

Coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

Before God we are all equally wise – and equally foolish.

As far as I’m concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

It’s not that I am so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.

Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.

You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

The only source of knowledge is experience.

You never fail until you stop trying.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

A ship is always safe at the shore – but that is NOT what it is built for.

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.

It is better to believe than to disbelieve; in so doing you bring everything to the realm of possibility.

Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible.

Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hopes of reward after death.

The great moral teachers of humanity were, in a way, artistic geniuses in the art of living.

A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.

I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.

Science can flourish only in an atmosphere of free speech.

Hail to the man who went through life always helping others, knowing no fear, and to whom aggressiveness and resentment are alien

Invention is not the product of logical thought, even though the final product is tied to a logical structure.

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

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

Let us not forget that human knowledge and skills alone cannot lead humanity to a happy and dignified life

The years of anxious searching in the dark, with their intense longing, their alternations of confidence and exhaustion, and final emergence into light—only those who have experienced it can understand that.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence.

Although I am a typical loner in daily life, my consciousness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has preserved me from feeling isolated.

All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.

I love to travel, but I hate to arrive.

The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.

The important thing is to not stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

A question that sometimes drives me hazy — am I or are the others crazy?

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?

It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry

I believe in standardizing automobiles. I do not believe in standardizing human beings.

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious.

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.

A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.

I believe in intuitions and inspirations. I sometimes feel that I am right. I do not know that I am.

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

I would teach peace rather than war. I would inculcate love rather than hate.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

I am by heritage a Jew, by citizenship a Swiss, and by makeup a human being, and only a human being, without any special attachment to any state or national entity whatsoever.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.