Albert Einstein Quotes

The laws of gravity cannot be held responcible for people falling in love.

~ Albert Einstein

I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.

~ Albert Einstein

Computers are incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid. Human beings are incredibly slow, inaccurate, and brilliant. Together they are powerful beyond imagination.

~ Albert Einstein

No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?

~ Albert Einstein

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

~ Albert Einstein

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

~ Albert Einstein

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

~ Albert Einstein

We know from daily life that we exist for other people first of all, for whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.

~ Albert Einstein

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.

~ Albert Einstein

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom. (first published 1937)]

~ Albert Einstein

Dancers are the athletes of God.

~ Albert Einstein

Life isn't worth living, unless it is lived for someone else.

~ 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.

~ Albert Einstein

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

~ Albert Einstein

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

~ Albert Einstein

Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible.

~ Albert Einstein

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

~ Albert Einstein

Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect, as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.

~ Albert Einstein

It is harder to crack prejudice than an atom.

~ Albert Einstein

Small is the number of them that see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

~ Albert Einstein

Although I am a typical loner in my daily life, my awareness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has prevented me from feelings of isolation.

~ Albert Einstein

Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.

~ Albert Einstein

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the universe.

~ Albert Einstein

Never memorize something that you can look up.

~ Albert Einstein

Student: Dr. Einstein, Aren't these the same questions as last year's [physics] final exam?Dr. Einstein: Yes; But this year the answers are different.

~ Albert Einstein

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

~ 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 difference is that there is no cat.

~ Albert Einstein

A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated 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.

~ Albert Einstein

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.

~ Albert Einstein

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

~ Albert Einstein

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.

~ Albert Einstein

The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!

~ Albert Einstein

If tomorrow were never to come, it would not be worth living today.

~ Albert Einstein

I would not think that philosophy and reason themselves will be man's guide in the foreseeable future; however, they will remain the most beautiful sanctuary they have always been for the select few.

~ Albert Einstein

The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with joy are goodness, beauty, and truth.

~ Albert Einstein

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

~ Albert Einstein

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.

~ Albert Einstein

I believe that Gandhi’s views were the most enlightened of all the political men in our time. We should strive to do things in his spirit: not to use violence in fighting for our cause, but by non-participation in anything you believe is evil.

~ Albert Einstein

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms.

~ Albert Einstein

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

~ Albert Einstein