Albert Einstein Quotes (247) Spiritual Sayings
About the Author: Albert Einstein; 14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist who developed the general theory of relativity, effecting a revolution in physics. For this achievement, Einstein is often regarded as the father of modern physics and the most influential physicist of the 20th century. While best known for his mass–energy equivalence formula E = mc2 (which has been dubbed "the world's most famous equation"), he received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his services to theoretical physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect". The latter was pivotal in establishing quantum theory. See website for more info - http://einstein.biz/
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“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― 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
“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
“If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.”
― Albert Einstein
“Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.”
― Albert Einstein
“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
― Albert Einstein
“The difference between genius and stupidity is; genius has its limits.”
― Albert Einstein
“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”
― Albert Einstein
“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
― Albert Einstein
“Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources”
― Albert Einstein
“I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.”
― Albert Einstein
“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”
― Albert Einstein
“Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.”
― Albert Einstein, The World as I See It
“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”
― Albert Einstein
“A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.”
― Albert Einstein
“Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.”
― Albert Einstein
“If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?”
― Albert Einstein
“Never memorize something that you can look up.”
― Albert Einstein
“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.”
― Albert Einstein
“Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.”
― 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
“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop questioning.”
― Albert Einstein, Relativity. The Special and the General Theory
“Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.”
― Albert Einstein
“If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?”
― Albert Einstein
“If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.”
― Albert Einstein
“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.”
― Albert Einstein
“Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.”
― 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
“Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.”
― Albert Einstein
“The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.”
― Albert Einstein
“You never fail until you stop trying.”
― Albert Einstein
“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious - the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.”
― Albert Einstein, Albert Einstein
“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”
― Albert Einstein
“Black holes are where God divided by zero.”
― Albert Einstein
“The best way to cheer yourself is to cheer somebody else up.”
― Albert Einstein
“Creativity is intelligence having fun.”
― Albert Einstein
“Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler.”
― Albert Einstein
“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity”
― Albert Einstein
“What is right is not always popular and what is popular is not always right.”
― Albert Einstein
“When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again.”
― Albert Einstein
“It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.”
― Albert Einstein
“The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.”
― Albert Einstein
“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”
― Albert Einstein
“Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”
― Albert Einstein
“Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.”
― Albert Einstein
“Love is a better master than duty.”
― Albert Einstein
“A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?”
― Albert Einstein
“We dance for laughter, we dance for tears, we dance for madness, we dance for fears, we dance for hopes, we dance for screams, we are the dancers, we create the dreams.”
― Albert Einstein
“Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.”
― Albert Einstein
“If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.”
― 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
“I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be.”
― Albert Einstein
“Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters”
― Albert Einstein
“Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.”
― Albert Einstein
“Out of clutter, find simplicity.”
― Albert Einstein
“I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.”
― Albert Einstein
“Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.”
― Albert Einstein
“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.”
― Albert Einstein
“The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before.”
― Albert Einstein
“God did not create evil. Just as darkness is the absence of light, evil is the absence of God.”
― Albert Einstein
“Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.”
― Albert Einstein
“Nothing happens until something moves.”
― Albert Einstein
“It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.”
― Albert Einstein
“God does not play dice with the universe.”
― Albert Einstein, The Born-Einstein Letters 1916-55
“Time is an illusion.”
― Albert Einstein
“Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.”
― Albert Einstein
“I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.”
― Albert Einstein
“Genius is 1% talent and 99% percent hard work...”
― Albert Einstein
“The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.”
― Albert Einstein
“Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.”
― Albert Einstein
“We all know that light travels faster than sound. That's why certain people appear bright until you hear them speak.”
― Albert Einstein
“It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.”
― Albert Einstein
“Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.”
― Albert Einstein
“Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.”
― Albert Einstein
“The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.”
― Albert Einstein
“A ship is always safe at the shore - but that is NOT what it is built for.”
― Albert Einstein
“You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.”
― Albert Einstein
“However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.”
― Albert Einstein
“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.”
― Albert Einstein
“You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.”
― Albert Einstein
“What a sad era when it is easier to smash an atom than a prejudice.”
― Albert Einstein
“I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking”
― Albert Einstein
“Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.”
― Albert Einstein
“Our task must be to free ourselves... by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and it's beauty.”
― Albert Einstein
“The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.”
― Albert Einstein
“Imagination is the highest form of research.”
― Albert Einstein
“Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.”
― Albert Einstein
“If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.”
― 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
“I want to know God's thoughts - the rest are mere details.”
― Albert Einstein
“If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.”
― Albert Einstein
“From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that we are here for the sake of each other - above all for those upon whose smile and well-being our own happiness depends, and also for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected by a bond of sympathy. Many times a day I realize how much my own outer and inner life is built upon the labors of my fellow men, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received.”
― Albert Einstein
“When the solution is simple, God is answering.”
― Albert Einstein
“I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.”
― Albert Einstein
“One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike -- and yet it is the most precious thing we have.”
― Albert Einstein
“The only real valuable thing is intuition.”
― Albert Einstein
“A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.”
― Albert Einstein
“Even on the most solemn occasions I got away without wearing socks and hid that lack of civilization in high boots”
― Albert Einstein
“God is subtle but he is not malicious.”
― Albert Einstein
“If I had an hour to solve a problem I'd spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and 5 minutes thinking about solutions.”
― Albert Einstein
“Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible.”
― Albert Einstein
“Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.”
― Albert Einstein
“It is my view that the vegetarian manner of living, by its purely physical effect on the human temperament, would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind.”
― Albert Einstein
“The word 'God' is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, and religious scripture a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation, no matter how subtle, can (for me) change this.”
― Albert Einstein
“A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.”
― Albert Einstein
“Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.”
― Albert Einstein
“If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.”
― Albert Einstein
“When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking.”
― Albert Einstein
“If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism.”
― 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
“The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.”
― Albert Einstein
“Somebody who only reads newspapers and at best books of contemporary authors looks to me like an extremely near-sighted person who scorns eyeglasses. He is completely dependent on the prejudices and fashions of his times, since he never gets to see or hear anything else.”
― Albert Einstein
“I love Humanity but I hate humans”
― Albert Einstein
“The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with joy are goodness, beauty, and truth.”
― Albert Einstein
“A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.”
― Albert Einstein
“The only sure way to avoid making mistakes is to have no new ideas.”
― Albert Einstein
“I believe in intuitions and inspirations...I sometimes FEEL that I am right. I do not KNOW that I am.”
― Albert Einstein
“The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.”
― Albert Einstein
“Life is a preparation for the future; and the best preparation for the future is to live as if there were none.”
― Albert Einstein
“A true genius admits that he/she knows nothing.”
― Albert Einstein
“The search for truth is more precious than its possession.”
― Albert Einstein, Ideas and Opinions
“Common sense is what tells us the earth is flat.”
― Albert Einstein
“The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!”
― Albert Einstein
“Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.”
― Albert Einstein
“It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.”
― Albert Einstein
“I thought of that while riding my bicycle.”
― Albert Einstein
“He who joyfully marches to music rank and file has already earned my contempt. He as been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice.”
― 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
“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
“Force always attracts men of low morality.”
― Albert Einstein
“Life isn't worth living, unless it is lived for someone else.”
― Albert Einstein
“Energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be changed from one form to another.”
― Albert Einstein
“In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not.”
― Albert Einstein
“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; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom. Without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail.”
― Albert Einstein
“It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I also cannot imagine some will or goal outside the human sphere... Science has been charged with undermining morality, but the charge is unjust. A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.”
― Albert Einstein
“the only escape from the miseries of life are music and cats...”
― 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.”
― 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
“Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature. ”
― Albert Einstein
“The only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library.”
― 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
“You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.”
― Albert Einstein
“Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.”
― Albert Einstein
“If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare me a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German, and Germany will declare that I am a Jew.”
― Albert Einstein
“I see my life in terms of music.”
― Albert Einstein
“A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?”
― Albert Einstein
“I'm not an atheist and I don't think I can call myself a pantheist. We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many different languages. The child knows someone must have written those books. It does not know how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. The child dimly suspects a mysterious order in the arrangement of the books but doesn't know what it is. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of even the most intelligent human being toward God. We see a universe marvelously arranged and obeying certain laws, but only dimly understand these laws. Our limited minds cannot grasp the mysterious force that moves the constellations.”
― Albert Einstein
“We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library, whose walls are covered to the ceiling with books in many different languages. The child knows that someone must have written those books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the the languages in which they are written. The child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books, a mysterious order, which it does not comprehend but only dimly suspects.”
― Albert Einstein
“Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury - to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best for both the body and the mind.”
― Albert Einstein
“The only source of knowledge is experience.”
― Albert Einstein
“What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the World.”
― Albert Einstein
“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
“Information is not knowledge.”
― 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
“No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.”
― Albert Einstein
“My passionate sense of social justice and social responsibility has always contrasted oddly with my pronounced lack of need for direct contact with other human beings and human communities. I am truly a 'lone traveler' and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart; in the face of all these ties, I have never lost a sense of distance and a need for solitude… ”
― Albert Einstein, Ideas and Opinions
“At least once a day, allow yourself the freedom to think and dream for yourself.”
― Albert Einstein
“One cannot alter a condition with the same mind set that created it in the first place.”
― Albert Einstein
“A foolish faith in authority is the worst enemy of truth.”
― Albert Einstein
“I don't try to imagine a personal God; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.”
― Albert Einstein
“The bigotry of the nonbeliever is for me nearly as funny as the bigotry of the believer.”
― Albert Einstein
“Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as hard duty. Never regard study as 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.”
― Albert Einstein
“Student is not a container you have to fill but a torch you have to light up.”
― Albert Einstein, Ideas and Opinions
“Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.”
― Albert Einstein
“We are all life trying to live, among other life trying to live.”
― Albert Einstein
“The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self.”
― Albert Einstein
“We experience ourselves our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of 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.”
― Albert Einstein
“It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.”
― 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
“The human spirit must prevail over technology.”
― Albert Einstein
“The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.”
― Albert Einstein
“If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.”
― Albert Einstein
“Truth is what stands the test of experience. ”
― Albert Einstein
“Excellence is doing a common thing in an uncommon way.”
― Albert Einstein
“The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.”
― Albert Einstein
“Learning is experience. Everything else is just information.”
― Albert Einstein
“Small is the number of them that see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.”
― Albert Einstein
“It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception.”
― Albert Einstein
“Our separation from each other is an optical illusion.”
― Albert Einstein
“It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.”
― Albert Einstein
“What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can comprehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility. This is a genuinely religious feeling that has nothing to do with mysticism.”
― Albert Einstein
“Everyone must become their own person, however frightful that may be. ”
― Albert Einstein
“If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies.... It would be a sad situation if the wrapper were better than the meat wrapped inside it.”
― Albert Einstein
“If I were to remain silent, I'd be guilty of complicity.”
― Albert Einstein
“My pacifism is an instinctive feeling, a feeling that possesses me because the murder of men is disgusting. My attitude is not derived from any intellectual theory but is based on my deepest antipathy to every kind of cruelty and hatred.”
― Albert Einstein
“Never do anything against conscience, even if the state demands it.”
― Albert Einstein
“How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of good will.”
― Albert Einstein
“If I could do it all again, I'd be a plumber.”
― Albert Einstein
“Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.”
― Albert Einstein
“A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.”
― Albert Einstein
“Play is the highest form of research.”
― Albert Einstein
“Always do what's right; this will gratify some and astonish the rest”
― Albert Einstein
“We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality. ”
― Albert Einstein
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