Albert Einstein Quotes
Sad Quotes by 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

The road to perdition has ever been
accompanied by lip service to an ideal.
- Albert Einstein

It is strange to be known so universally
and yet to be so lonely.
- Albert Einstein

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

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
- Albert Einstein

I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.
- Albert Einstein

Technological progress is like an axe
in the hands of a pathological criminal.
- 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.
- Albert Einstein

The man of science is a poor philosopher.
- Albert Einstein

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
- Albert Einstein

Force always attracts men of low morality.
- Albert Einstein

Human beings must have action;
and they will make it if they cannot find it.
- Albert Einstein

Science is a wonderful thing
if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
- Albert Einstein

In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep,
one must above all be a sheep oneself.
- Albert Einstein

The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.
- Albert Einstein

The attempt to combine wisdom and power
has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
- Albert Einstein

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything
save our modes of thinking
and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.
- Albert Einstein

I don't know, I don't care,
and it doesn't make any difference!
- Albert Einstein

As far as I'm concerned, I prefer
silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
- Albert Einstein

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears,
for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
- Albert Einstein

I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out
in a war fought with the atomic bomb.
Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.
- Albert Einstein

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems,
in my opinion, to characterize our age.
- 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.
- Albert Einstein

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
- Albert Einstein

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

The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life.
Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.
- Albert Einstein

Science without religion is lame,
religion without science is blind.
- Albert Einstein

Only two things are infinite,
the universe and human stupidity,
and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein

It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war
is nothing but an act of murder.
- Albert Einstein

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

Only one who devotes himself to a cause
with his whole strength and soul
can be a true master.
For this reason mastery demands all of a person.
- Albert Einstein

The value of a man should be seen in what he gives
and not in what he is able to receive.
- Albert Einstein

People love chopping wood.
In this activity one immediately sees results.
- Albert Einstein

Never do anything against conscience
even if the state demands it.
- Albert Einstein

The world is not dangerous because of those who do harm
but because of those who look at it without doing anything.
- Albert Einstein

Anyone who has never made a mistake,
has never tried anything new.
- Albert Einstein

Without deep reflection,
one knows from daily life
that one exists for other people.
- Albert Einstein

In matters of truth and justice,
there is no difference between large and small problems,
for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.
- Albert Einstein

Knowledge of what is, does not open
the door directly to what should be.
- Albert Einstein

Strive not to be a success,
but rather to be of value.
- Albert Einstein

Once we accept our limits, we can go beyond them.
- Albert Einstein

The world is a dangerous place,
not because of those who do evil,
but because of those who look on and do nothing.
- Albert Einstein

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
- 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

Never lose a holy curiosity.
- Albert Einstein

Information is not knowledge.
- Albert Einstein

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters
cannot be trusted with important matters.
- Albert Einstein

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift
and the rational mind is a faithful servant.
We have created a society that honors the servant
and has forgotten the gift.
- Albert Einstein

The only real valuable thing is intuition.
- Albert Einstein

The distinction between the past, present and future
is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
- Albert Einstein

Most of the fundamental ideas of science
are essentially simple,
and may, as a rule, be expressed
in a language comprehensible to everyone.
- Albert Einstein

Great spirits have always encountered
violent opposition from mediocre minds.
- Albert Einstein

The true sign of intelligence
is not knowledge but imagination.
- Albert Einstein

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

Not everything that can be counted counts,
and not everything that counts can be counted.
- Albert Einstein

The search for truth is more precious than its possession.
- Albert Einstein

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

Where there is love there is no question.
- Albert Einstein

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

We should take care not to make the intellect our god;
it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
- Albert Einstein

Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
- Albert Einstein

To raise new questions, new possibilities,
to regard old problems from a new angle,
requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
- Albert Einstein

Intellectuals solve problems,
geniuses prevent them.
- Albert Einstein

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

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me
than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
- Albert Einstein

Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl
is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.
- Albert Einstein

Peace cannot be kept by force;
it can only be achieved by understanding.
- 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.
- Albert Einstein

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing
over and over and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein

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

It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness
of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.
- Albert Einstein