424 Albert Einstein Quotes

1. "Any fool can know. The point is to understand." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

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2. "Imagination is the highest form of research." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

3. "The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

4. "I salute the man who is going through life always helpful, knowing no fear, and to whom aggressiveness and resentment are alien." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

5. "A calm and modest life brings more happiness than the pursuit of success combined with constant restlessness." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

6. "Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

7. "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) Click to tweet

8. "All i have is the stubbornness of a mule; no, that’s quite all, i also have a nose." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

9. "He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

10. "The search for truth is more precious than its possession." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

11. "The value of achievement lies in the achieving." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

12. "Long live impudence! It’s my guardian angel in this world." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

13. "I always get by best with my naivety, which is 20 percent deliberate." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

14. "A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

15. "Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty; it stems rather from love and devotion toward men and toward objective things." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

16. "If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

17. "Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

18. "Three rules of work: out of clutter find simplicity; from discord find harmony; in the middle of difficulty lies opportunity." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

19. "On the mysterious: it is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science. He who knows it not and can no longer wonder, no longer feel amazement, is as good as dead, a snuffed-out candle." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

20. "The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is arrogance." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

21. "Weak people revenge. Strong people forgive. Intelligent people ignore." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

22. "To see with one’s own eyes, to feel and judge without succumbing to the suggestive power of the fashion of the day, to be able to express what one has seen and felt in a trim sentence or even in a cunningly wrought word – is that not glorious? Is it not a proper subject for congratulation?" (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

23. "Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

24. "The ideals which have lighted me on my way and time after time given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been truth, goodness, and beauty." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

25. "If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

26. "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) Click to tweet

27. "I do not at all believe in human freedom in the philosophical sense. Everybody acts not only under external compulsion but also in accordance with inner necessity." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

28. "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius, and a lot of courage, to move in the opposite direction." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

29. "Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

30. "The only thing i did was this: in long intervals i have expressed an opinion on public issues whenever they appeared to me so bad and unfortunate that silence would have made me feel guilty of complicity." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

31. "How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he sometimes thinks he senses it." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

32. "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." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

33. "The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

34. "When i am judging a theory, i ask myself whether, if i were god, i would have arranged the world in such a way." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

35. "I believe in intuition and inspiration. At times i feel certain i am right while not knowing the reason." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

36. "Don’t listen to the person who has the answers; listen to the person who has the questions." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

37. "The only source of knowledge is experience." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

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38. "The only real valuable thing is intuition." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

39. "If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

40. "It’s not that i’m so smart, it’s just that i stay with problems longer." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

41. "Creativity is intelligence having fun." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

42. "I lived in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in maturity." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

43. "At any rate, i am convinced that he does not play dice." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

44. "I want to know god’s thoughts; the rest are details." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

45. "Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

46. "The world is not dangerous because of those who do harm but because of those who look at it without doing anything." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

47. "The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

48. "The most powerful force in the universe is compound interest." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

49. "You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

50. "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) Click to tweet

51. "No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

52. "Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

53. "You never fail until you stop trying." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

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54. "Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

55. "A little knowledge is dangerous. So is a lot." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

56. "God is subtle but he is not malicious." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

57. "Information is not knowledge." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

58. "One flower is beautiful, a surfeit of flowers is vulgar." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

59. "Where there’s a will there’s a way." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

60. "The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

61. "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

62. "The man of science is a poor philosopher." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

63. "Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

64. "If the facts don’t fit the theory, change the facts." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

65. "I never think of the future – it comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

66. "Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

67. "When the solution is simple, god is answering." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

68. "Coincidence is god’s way of remaining anonymous." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

69. "Never memorize something that you can look up." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

70. "A person starts to live when he can live outside himself." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

71. "As far as i’m concerned, i prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

72. "God always takes the simplest way." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

73. "Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

74. "I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

75. "The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

76. "Each of us has to do his little bit toward transforming this spirit of the times." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

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77. "Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

78. "I, an old man, greet you japanese schoolchildren from afar and hope that your generation may some day put mine to shame." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

79. "The destiny of civilized humanity depends more than ever on the moral forces it is capable of generating." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

80. "Measured objectively, what a man can wrest from truth by passionate striving is utterly infinitesimal. But the striving frees us from the bonds of the self and makes us comrades of those who are the best and the greatest." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

81. "A new type of thinking is essential if mankind is to survive and move toward higher levels." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

82. "As for the search for truth, i know from my own painful searching, with its many blind alleys, how hard it is to take a reliable step, be it ever so small, towards the understanding of that which is truly important." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

83. "A theory is the more impressive the greater the simplicity of its premises, the more different kinds of things it relates, and the more extended its area of applicability." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

84. "Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

85. "A person who is religiously enlightened appears to me to be one who has, to the best of his ability, liberated himself from the fetters of his selfish desires and is preoccupied with thoughts, feelings, and aspirations to which he clings because of their superpersonal value." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

86. "On receiving lord & taylor award: it gives me great pleasure, indeed, to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

87. "The really valuable thing in the pageant of human life seems to me not the state but the creative, sentient individual, the personality; it alone creates the noble and the sublime, while the herd as such remains dull in thought and full in feeling." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

88. "The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

89. "The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

90. "The really good music, whether of the east or of the west, cannot be analyzed." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

91. "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) Click to tweet

92. "Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

93. "Bureaucracy is the death of all sound work." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

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94. "You can’t blame gravity for falling in love." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

95. "I’m doing just fine, considering that i have triumphantly survived nazism and two wives." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

96. "I have reached an age when, if someone tells me to wear socks, i don’t have to." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

97. "Women always worry about things that men forget; men always worry about things women remember." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

98. "Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

99. "A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am i or are the others crazy?" (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

100. "There is a race between mankind and the universe. Mankind is trying to build bigger, better, faster, and more foolproof machines. The universe is trying to build bigger, better, and faster fools. So far the universe is winning." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

101. "After receiving a distinction from chicago decalogue society: how unfortunate a state must a community find itself if it cannot produce a more suitable candidate upon whom to confer such a distinction?" (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

102. "As for the words of warm praise addressed to me, i shall carefully refrain from disputing them. For who still believes that there is such a thing as genuine modesty? I should run the risk of being taken for just an old hypocrite." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

103. "Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one’s living at it." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

104. "If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?" (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

105. "What a strange thing must be a girl’s soul! Do you really believe that you could find permanent happiness through others, even if this be the one and only beloved man? I know this sort of animal personally, from my own experience as i am one of them myself. Not too much should be expected from them, this i know quite exactly. Today we are sullen, tomorrow high-spirited, after tomorrow cold, then again irritated and half-sick of life. And so it goes." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

106. "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and i’m not sure about the the universe." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

107. "The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

108. "The wireless telegraph is not difficult to understand. The ordinary telegraph is like a very long cat. You pull the tail in new york, and it meows in los angeles. The wireless is the same, only without the cat." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

109. "Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

110. "Everyone 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) Click to tweet

111. "Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That’s relativity." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

112. "Too many of us look upon americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the americans themselves." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

113. "Those who thoughtlessly make use of the miracles of science and technology, without understanding more about them than a cow eating plants understands about botany, should be ashamed of themselves." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

114. "One had to cram all this stuff into one’s mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after i had passed the final examination, i found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

115. "No one here at the technikum is up to date in modern physics ? I have already tapped all of them without success. Would i too become so lazy intellectually if i were ever doing well?" (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

116. "The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

117. "Black holes are where god divided by zero." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

118. "Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

119. "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) Click to tweet

120. "If a equals success, then the formula is a equals x plus y and z, with x being work, y play, and z keeping your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

121. "We all know that light travels faster than sound. That’s why certain people appear bright until you hear them speak." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

122. "To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

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123. "A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

124. "A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

125. "Mankind invented the atomic bomb, but no mouse would ever construct a mousetrap." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

126. "Stay away from negative people. They have a problem for every solution." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

127. "Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

128. "Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else, unless it is an enemy." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

129. "Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

130. "Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

131. "At our age, the devil doesn’t give you much time off!" (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

132. "Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

133. "Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

134. "All of one’s contemporaries and aging friends are living in a delicate balance, and one feels that one’s own consciousness is no longer as brightly lit as it once was. But then, twilight with its more subdued colors has its charms as well." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

135. "I soon learned to scent out what was able to lead to fundamentals and to turn aside from everything else, from the multitude of things that clutter up the mind." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

136. "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) Click to tweet

137. "No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

138. "A new idea comes suddenly and in a rather intuitive way, but intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

139. "As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

140. "The foundation of morality should not be made dependent on myth nor tied to any authority lest doubt about the myth or about the legitimacy of the authority imperil the foundation of sound judgment and action." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

141. "The eternal mystery of the universe is its comprehensibility." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

142. "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) Click to tweet

143. "Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

144. "Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age 18." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

145. "What is right is not always popular and what is popular is not always right." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

146. "One lives one’s life under constant tension, until it is time to go for good." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

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147. "I have remained a simple fellow who asks nothing of the world; only my youth is gone – the enchanting youth that forever walks on air." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

148. "I no longer need to take part in the competition of the big brains. Participating [in the process] has always seem to me an awful type of slavery no less evil than the passion for money or power." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

149. "I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

150. "Compassionate people are geniuses in the art of living, more necessary to the dignity, security, and joy of humanity than the discoverers of knowledge." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

151. "A hundred times every day i remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labours of other men, living and dead, and that i must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as i received and am still receiving." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

152. "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) Click to tweet

153. "I have firmly resolved to bite the dust, when my time comes, with a minimum of medical assistance, and up to then i will sin to my wicked heart’s content." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

154. "The old who have died live on in the young ones. Don’t you feel this now in your bereavement, when you look at your children?" (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

155. "Our death is not an end if we have lived on in our children and the younger generations. For they are us; our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

156. "This life is not such that we ought to complain when it comes to an end for us or for a loved one; rather, we may look back in satisfaction when it has been bravely and honorably withstood." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

157. "I am strongly drawn to a frugal life and am often oppressively aware that i am engrossing an undue amount of the labor of my fellow-men." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

158. "I am glad that you have given me the opportunity of expressing to you here my deep sense of gratitude as a man, as a good european, and as a jew." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

159. "I believe that whatever we do or live for has its causality; it is good, however, that we cannot see through to it." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

160. "People like you and i, though mortal of course, like everyone else, do not grow old no matter how long we live. What i mean is that we never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we were born." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

161. "I am satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of life and with the awareness and a glimpse of the marvelous structure of the existing world, together with the devoted striving to comprehend a portion, be it ever so tiny, of the reason that manifest itself in nature." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

162. "I am happy at the thought that the worst worries are over for my parents." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

163. "My mother died a week ago today in terrible agony. We are all completely exhausted. One feels in one’s bones the significance of blood ties." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

164. "One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one’s own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

165. "May they not forget to keep pure the great heritage that puts them ahead of the west: the artistic configuration of life, the simplicity and modesty of personal needs, and the purity and serenity of the japanese soul." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

166. "What depressed me most is, of course, the misfortune of my poor parents who have not had a happy moment for so many years. What further hurts deeply is that as an adult man, i have to look on without being able to do anything." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

167. "The satisfaction of physical needs is indeed the indispensable precondition of a satisfactory existence, but in itself it is not enough. In order to be content, men must also have the possibility of developing their intellectual and artistic powers to whatever extent accords with their personal characteristics and abilities." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

168. "I just read a wonderful paper by lenard on the generation of cathode rays by ultraviolet light. Under the influence of this beautiful piece, i am filled with such happiness and joy that i absolutely must share some of it with you." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

169. "Human beings can attain a worthy and harmonious life only if they are able to rid themselves, within the limits of human nature, of striving to fulfill wishes of the material kind." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

170. "My mother and sister seem somewhat petty and philistine to me, despite the sympathy i feel for them. It is interesting how gradually our life changes us in the very subtleties of our soul, so that even the closest of family ties dwindle into habitual friendship. Deep inside we no longer understand one another, and are incapable of actively empathizing with the other, or knowing what emotions move the other." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

171. "On his cheerful father: he was content to observe without wishing for more." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

172. "For a place to be born in, the house is pleasant enough, because on that occasion one makes no great aesthetic demands; instead one begins life screaming at one’s dear ones, without bothering too much about reasons and circumstances." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

173. "Live with purpose. Don’t let people or things around you get you down." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

174. "Death is a reality… life ends definitely when the subject, by his actions, no longer affects his environment… he can no longer add an iota to the sum total of his experience." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

175. "Sometimes the only thought that sustains me and is my only refuge from despair is that i have always done everything i could within my small power, and that year in, year out, i have never permitted myself any amusements or diversions except those afforded by my studies." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

176. "Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

177. "A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?" (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

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178. "On how he sees himself: a person with no roots anywhere… a stranger everywhere." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

179. "I am a real lone wolf who has never wholeheartedly belonged to the state, to my country, my circle of friends and not even to my family but who, despite all these bonds, has constantly experienced a feeling of strangeness and the need for solitude." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

180. "Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder, to search for the truth. Have holy curiosity. Make your life worth living." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

181. "Although i have a regular work schedule, i take time to go for long walks on the beach so that i can listen to what is going on inside my head. If my work isn’t going well, i lie down in the middle of a workday and gaze at the ceiling while i listen and visualize what goes on in my imagination." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

182. "I am neither a german citizen, nor do i believe in anything that can be described as a ‘jewish faith.’ but i am a jew and glad to belong to the jewish people, though i do not regard it in any way as chosen." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

183. "My passionate interest in social justice and social responsibility has always stood in curious contrast to a marked lack of desire for direct association with men and women." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

184. "I am a horse for single harness, not cut out for tandem or team work. I have never belonged wholeheartedly to country or state, to my circle of friends, or even to my own family. These ties have always been accompanied by a vague aloofness, and the wish to withdraw into myself increases with the years." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

185. "When i was young, all i wanted and expected from life was to sit quietly in some corner doing my work without the public paying attention to me." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

186. "It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

187. "Solitude can be tolerated only up to a certain limit, you know." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

188. "There are two means of refuge from the misery of life – music and cats." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

189. "I lived in solitude in the country and noticed how the monotony of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

190. "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) Click to tweet

191. "I believe in one thing, that only a life lived for others is a life worth living." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

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192. "With fame i become more and more stupid, which of course is a very common phenomenon." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

193. "Why is it that nobody understands me, yet everybody likes me?" (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

194. "Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

195. "I simply enjoy giving more than receiving in every respect, to not take myself nor the doings of the masses seriously, am not ashamed of my weaknesses and vices, and naturally take things as they come with equanimity and humor. Many people are like this, and i really cannot understand why i have been made into a kind of idol." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

196. "There is far too great a disproportion between what one is and what others think one is, or at least what they say they think one is. But one has to take it all with good humor." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

197. "Of course, understanding of our fellow-beings is important. But this understanding becomes fruitful only when it is sustained by sympathetic feeling in joy and in sorrow. The cultivation of this most important spring of moral action is that which is left of religion when it has been purified of the elements of superstition." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

198. "Desire for approval and recognition is a healthy motive, but the desire to be acknowledged as better, stronger or more intelligent than a fellow being or fellow scholar easily leads to an excessively egoistic psychological adjustment." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

199. "Many times a day i realize how much my outer and inner life is based upon the labors of my fellow men, both living and dead, and how much i must exert myself in order to give in return as much as i have received." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

200. "It is an irony of fate that i myself have been the recipient of excessive admiration and reverence from my fellow-beings, through no fault or merit of my own." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

201. "The best way to cheer yourself is to cheer somebody else up." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

202. "The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

203. "The only way to escape the corruptible effect of praise is to go on working." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

204. "I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

205. "Look around at how people want to get more out of life than they put in. A man of value will give more than he receives." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

206. "I am content in my later years. I have kept my good humor and take neither myself nor the next person seriously." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

207. "Without the sense of fellowship with men of like mind, of preoccupation with the objective, the eternally unattainable in the field of art and scientific research, life would have seemed to me empty." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

208. "An awareness of my limitations pervades me all the more keenly in recent times because my faculties have been quite overrated since a few consequences of general relativity theory have stood the test." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

209. "A man’s value to the community depends primarily on how far his feelings, thoughts, and actions are directed towards promoting the good of his fellows." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

210. "The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

211. "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) Click to tweet

212. "I lack any sentiment of the sort; all i have is a sense of duty toward all people and an attachment to those with whom i have become intimate." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

213. "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) Click to tweet

214. "A man’s ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; 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) Click to tweet

215. "Each of us visits this earth involuntarily, and without an invitation. For me, it is enough to wonder at the secrets." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

216. "Be creative, but make sure that what you create is not a curse for mankind." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

217. "Love brings much happiness, much more than pining brings pain." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

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218. "I firmly believe that love [of a subject or hobby] is a better teacher than a sense of duty – at least for me." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

219. "Women marry men hoping they will change. Men marry women hoping they will not. So each is inevitably disappointed." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

220. "To mileva maric: only the though of you gives my life here a true meaning." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

221. "To mileva maric: how proud i will be to have a little ph.d. for a sweetheart." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

222. "To mileva maric: when you are my dear little wife, we will zealously do scientific work together, so as not to become old philistines, right? My sister seemed to me so philistine. You must never become like that, it would be awful for me. You must always remain my witch and my street urchin?." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

223. "To mileva maric: just be of good cheer, love, and don’t fret." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

224. "To mileva maric: if only i could give you some of my happiness, so that you would never be sad and wistful." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

225. "To mileva maric: don’t be angry for my not having written you for so long, i simply haven’t much to say that you don’t know already. So i help myself out with what always stays lovely and nice." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

226. "To mileva maric: i am fond of you, my dear girl, and am looking forward to seeing you again on sunday. We shall again spend an enchanting cozy day together." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

227. "To mileva maric: i am so lucky to have found you – a creature who is my equal, and who is as strong and independent as i am." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

228. "To mileva maric: destiny seems to bear some grudge against the two of us. But this will make things all the more beautiful later on, when all obstacles and worries have been overcome." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

229. "To mileva maric: but all that doesn’t matter. After all, i have you and your love." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

230. "To mileva maric: how delightful it was the last time, when i was allowed to press your dear little person to me the way nature created it, let me tenderly kiss you for that, you dear good soul!" (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

231. "Letter to marie winteler: as to whether i will be patient? What other choice do i have with my beloved, naughty little angle?" (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

232. "Letter to marie winteler: you mean more to my soul than the whole world did before, the "insignificant silly sweetheart that knows nothing and understands nothing"." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

233. "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." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

234. "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) Click to tweet

235. "Is it not a lack of real affection that scares me away again and again from marriage. Is it a fear of the comfortable life, or nice furniture, of dishonor that i burden myself with, or even the fear of becoming a contented bourgeois?" (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

236. "Marriage makes people treat each other as articles of property and no longer as free human beings." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

237. "Marriage is but slavery made to appear civilized." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

238. "One must take what nature gives as one finds it." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

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239. "Joy in looking and comprehending is nature’s most beautiful gift." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

240. "How wretchedly inadequate is the theoretical physicist as he stands before nature, and before his students." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

241. "My scientific work is motivated by an irresistible longing to understand the secrets of nature and by no other feelings. My love for justice and the striving to contribute towards the improvement of human conditions are quite independent from my scientific interests." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

242. "Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

243. "The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

244. "Neither on my deathbed nor before will i ask myself such a question. Nature is not an engineer or a contractor, and i myself am a part of nature." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

245. "Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

246. "Numerous are the wares that nature produces by the dozen, but her choice products are few." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

247. "Space by itself, and time by itself, are doomed to fade away into mere shadows, and only a kind union of the two will preserve an independent reality." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

248. "A spirit is manifest in the laws of the universe, a spirit vastly superior to that of man, and one in the face of which we with our modest powers must feel humble." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

249. "If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, then man would have only four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

250. "I sometimes ask myself how it came about that i was the one to develop the theory of relativity. The reason, i think, is that a normal adult never stops to think about problems of space and time. These are things which he has thought about as a child." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

251. "What i see is a certain something, desolate and grey as infinity. I do not believe that the structure of the human brain is to be blamed for the fact that man cannot grasp infinity." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

252. "Make a lot of walks to get healthy and don’t read that much but save yourself some until you’re grown up." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

253. "Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

254. "If you must read only one quote, read the following one." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

255. "A human being is a part of a whole, called by us ‘universe’, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings 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) Click to tweet

256. "The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

257. "Failure and deprivation are the best educators and purifiers." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

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258. "I do not much believe in education. Each man ought to be his own model, however frightful that may be." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

259. "The only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

260. "Combinatory play seems to be the essential feature in productive thought." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

261. "That is the way to learn the most, that when you are doing something with such enjoyment that you don’t notice that the time passes." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

262. "On education: the point is to develop the childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition and to guide the child over to important fields for society; it is that education which in the main is founded upon the desire for successful activity and acknowledgment." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

263. "The aim (of education) must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals who, however, can see in the service to the community their highest life achievement." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

264. "Studying, and striving for truth and beauty in general, is a sphere in which we are allowed to be children throughout life." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

265. "Only if outward and inner freedom are constantly and consciously pursued is there a possibility of spiritual development and perfection and thus of improving man’s outward and inner life." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

266. "Never regard your study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn the liberating beauty of the intellect for your own personal joy and for the profit of the community to which your later work will belong." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

267. "Schools may favor such freedom by encouraging independent thought." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

268. "I believe, indeed, that overemphasis on the purely intellectual attitude, often directed solely to the practical and factual, in our education, has led directly to the impairment of ethical values." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

269. "Today also there is an urge toward social progress, toward tolerance and freedom of thought, toward a larger political unity… but the students at our universities have ceased as completely as their teachers to embody the hopes and ideals of the people." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

270. "The most valuable thing a teacher can impart to children is not knowledge and understanding per se but a longing for knowledge and understanding, and an appreciation for intellectual values, whether they be artistic, scientific, or moral." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

271. "It is true that my parents were worried because i began to speak relatively late, so much so that they consulted a doctor. I can’t say how old i was then, certainly not less than three." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

272. "In the matter of physics [education], the first lessons should contain nothing but what is experimental and interesting to see." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

273. "When i was a little boy my father showed me a small compass, and the enormous impression that it made on me certainly played a role in my life." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

274. "It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For that he does not really need college. He can learn them from books." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

275. "The value of an education in a liberal arts college is not the learning of many facts, but the training of the mind to think something that cannot be learned from textbooks." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

276. "Copernicus, through his work and the greatness of his personality, taught man to be modest." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

277. "Young people especially like to contemplate bold projects. Also, it is natural for a serious young man to envision his desired goals with the greatest possible precision." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

278. "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) Click to tweet

279. "We will hope that future historians will explain the morbid symptoms of present day society as the childhood ailments of an aspiring humanity, due entirely to the excessive speed at which civilization was advancing." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

280. "The students at our universities have ceased as completely as their teachers to enshrine the hopes and ideals of the nation." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

281. "Numerous are the academic chairs, but rare are wise and noble teachers. Numerous and large are the lecture halls, but far from numerous the young people who genuinely thirst for truth and justice." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

282. "When compared to six years’ schooling at a german authoritarian gymnasium, it made me clearly realize how much superior an education based on free action and personal responsibility is to one relying on outward authority." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

283. "This is quite natural: everybody likes to do that for which he has a talent." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

284. "It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

285. "If you can’t explain it to a six year old, you don’t understand it yourself." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

286. "I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

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287. "This delicate little plant [curiosity], aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

288. "I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

289. "True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

290. "It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

291. "The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

292. "I very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and i may try to express it in words afterwards." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

293. "I am certain that it is the mystery of not understanding that attracts people; it impresses them with the aura and magnetism of mystery." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

294. "The great moral teachers of humanity were, in a way, artistic geniuses in the art of living." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

295. "There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

296. "The more a man is imbued with the ordered regularity of all events the firmer becomes his convictions that there is no room left by the side of this ordered regularity for cause of a different nature." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

297. "The development of science and of the creative activities of the spirit in general requires still another kind of freedom, which may be characterized as inward freedom. It is this freedom of the spirit which consists in the independence of thought from the restrictions of authoritarian and social prejudices as well as from unphilosophical routinizing and habit in general." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

298. "The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when one contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries to comprehend only a little of this mystery every day." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

299. "People like you and me never grow old. We never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we were born." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

300. "The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

301. "Music doesn’t influence research work, but both are nourished by the same sort of longing, and they complement each other in the satisfaction they offer." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

302. "As to schubert, i have only this to say: play the music, love – and keep you mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

303. "This is what i have to say about bach’s life and work: listen, play, love, revere – and keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

304. "Mozart’s music is so pure and beautiful that i see it as a reflection of the inner beauty of the universe." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

305. "I took violin lessons from age 6 to 14, but had no luck with my teachers, for whom music did not transcend mechanical practicing, i really began to learn only when i was about 13 years old, mainly after i had fallen in love with mozart’s sonatas." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

306. "Logic will get you from a to b. Imagination will take you everywhere." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

307. "Without creative personalities able to think and judge independently, the upward development of society is as unthinkable as the development of the individual personality without the nourishing soil of the community." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

308. "A big fat book full of colored drawings by japanese children lies always on my table." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

309. "A country becomes really a soul only in consciously serving the intellectual life." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

310. "The theme that i recognize in galileo’s work, is the passionate fight against any kind of dogma based on authority." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

311. "Suspicion against every kind of authority grew out of this experience, an attitude which has never again left me." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

312. "Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

313. "Setting an example is not the main means of influencing another, it is the only means." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

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314. "Success comes from curiosity, concentration, perseverance and self-criticism." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

315. "The ordinary objects of human endeavour – property, outward success, luxury – have always seemed to me contemptible." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

316. "Most people stop looking when they find the proverbial needle in the haystack. I would continue looking to see if there were other needles." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

317. "The example of great and pure individuals in the only thing that can lead us to noble thoughts and deeds." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

318. "If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

319. "Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

320. "Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

321. "If the rabble continues to occupy itself with you, then simply don’t read that hogwash, but rather leave it to the reptile for whom it has been fabricated." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

322. "I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time i am right." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

323. "I most seriously believe that one does people the best service by giving them some elevating work to do and thus indirectly elevating them." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

324. "The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

325. "The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained liberation from the self." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

326. "On mahatma gandhi after his assassination: generations to come, it may well be, will scarce believe that such a man as this one ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

327. "Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

328. "A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

329. "To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

330. "Scientists investigate that which already is." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

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331. "I am not very satisfied with my theory of thermoelectricity." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

332. "I never failed in mathematics. Before i was fifteen i had mastered differential and integral calculus." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

333. "The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

334. "It is the theory that decides what can be observed." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

335. "Everyone who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that some spirit is manifest in the laws of the universe, one that is vastly superior to that of man. In this way the pursuit of science leads to a religious feeling of a special sort, which is surely quite different from the religiosity of someone more naive." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

336. "The scientist find his rewards in what henri poincaré calls the joy of comprehension, and not in the possibilities of application to which any discovery may lead." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

337. "To his sons: i am actually glad that neither of you dedicated yourselves to science, because it is a hard thing, full of difficult and futile work." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

338. "This world is a strange madhouse. Currently, every coachman and every waiter is debating whether relativity theory is correct." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

339. "When i have no special problem to occupy my mind, i love to reconstruct proofs of mathematical and physical theorems that have long been known to me. There is no goal in this, merely an opportunity to indulge in the pleasant occupation of thinking." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

340. "The real goal of my research has always been the simplification and unification of the system of theoretical physics." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

341. "The progress of science presupposes the possibility of unrestricted communications of all results and judgments – freedom of expression and instruction in all realms of intellectual endeavor." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

342. "This evening i sat 2 hours at the window and thought about how the law of interaction of molecular forces could be determined." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

343. "The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

344. "People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

345. "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." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

346. "Why does this magnificent applied science which saves work and makes life easier bring us so little happiness? The simple answer runs: because we have not yet learned to make sensible use of it." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

347. "In science, moreover, the work of the individual is so bound up with that of his scientific predecessors and contemporaries that it appears almost as an impersonal product of his generation." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

348. "It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

349. "Our entire much-praised technological progress, and civilization generally, could be compared to an axe in the hand of a pathological criminal." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

350. "Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief objective of all technological endeavors… in order that the creations of our minds shall be a blessing and not a curse to mankind. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

351. "Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

352. "I assert that the cosmic religious experience is the strongest and the noblest driving force behind scientific research." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

353. "Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

354. "Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

355. "I am a deeply religious nonbeliever. This is a somewhat new kind of religion." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

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356. "Before god we are all equally wise – and equally foolish." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

357. "A religious person is devout in the sense that he has no doubt about the significance of those superpersonal objects and goals which neither require nor are capable of rational foundation." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

358. "What really interests me is whether god had any choice in the creation of the world." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

359. "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." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

360. "True religion is real living; living with all one’s soul, with all one’s goodness and righteousness." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

361. "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) Click to tweet

362. "My religiosity consists in a humble admiration of the infinitely superior spirit that reveals itself in the little that we, with our weak and transitory understanding, can comprehend of reality." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

363. "Through the reading of popular scientific books, i soon reached the conviction that much in the stories of the bible could not be true. The consequence was a positively fanatic orgy of freethinking coupled with the impression that youth is intentionally being deceived by the state through lies; it was a crushing impression." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

364. "Though i am now an old fogey, i am still hard at work and still refuse to believe that god plays dice." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

365. "Strenuous intellectual work and looking at god’s nature are the reconciling, fortifying, yet relentlessly strict angels that shall lead me through all of life’s troubles." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

366. "God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

367. "We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

368. "I believe in spinoza’s god, who reveals himself in the lawful harmony of the world, not in a god who concerns himself with the fate and the doings of mankind." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

369. "Try and penetrate with our limited means the secrets of nature and you will find that, behind all the discernible concatenations, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion. To that extent i am, in point of fact, religious." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

370. "That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of god." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

371. "I cannot imagine a god who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

372. "All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

373. "Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

374. "God gave me the stubbornness of a mule and a fairly keen scent." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

375. "Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

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376. "Only through perils and upheavals can nations be brought to further developments. May the present upheavals lead to a better world." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

377. "I made one great mistake in my life, when i signed the letter to franklin d. Roosevelt recommending that atom bombs be made." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

378. "My pacifism is not based on any intellectual theory but on a deep antipathy to every form of cruelty and hatred." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

379. "Every man has a right over his own life and war destroys lives that were full of promise." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

380. "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) Click to tweet

381. "The goal of pacifism is possible only though a supranational organization. To stand unconditionally for this cause is the criterion of true pacifism." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

382. "We must begin to inculcate our children against militarism by educating them in the spirit of pacifism. Our schoolbooks glorify war and conceal it’s horror. I would teach peace rather than war." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

383. "Today, in twelve countries, young men are resisting conscription and refusing military service. They are the pioneers of a warless world." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

384. "He who joyfully marches to music 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) Click to tweet

385. "Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism – how passionately i hate them!" (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

386. "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) Click to tweet

387. "There will be no peace on earth, the wounds inflicted by the war will not heal, until this internationalism is restored." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

388. "The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

389. "The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking… the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only i had known, i should have become a watchmaker." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

390. "I appeal to all men and women, whether they be eminent or humble, to declare that they will refuse to give any further assistance to war or the preparation of war." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

391. "I am not only a pacifist, but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace… is it not better for a man to die for a cause in which he believes, such as peace, than to suffer for a cause in which he does not believe, such as war?" (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

392. "Never do anything against conscience, even if the state demands it." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

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393. "Relativity applies to physics, not ethics." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

394. "Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

395. "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) Click to tweet

396. "The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

397. "One must shy away from questionable undertakings, even when they bear a high-sounding name." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

398. "Without ‘ethical culture’ there is no salvation for humanity." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

399. "Fulfillment on the moral and esthetic side is a goal which lies closer to the preoccupations of art than it does to those of science." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

400. "In two weeks the sheeplike masses of any country can be worked up by the newspaper into such a state of excited fury that men are prepared to put on uniforms and kill and be killed, for the sake of the sordid ends of a few interested parties." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

401. "In politics not only are leaders lacking, but the independence of spirit and the sense of justice of the citizen have to a great extent declined." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

402. "The cult of individuals is always, in my view, unjustified." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

403. "An empty stomach is not a good political adviser." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

404. "Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

405. "Force always attracts men of low morality, and i believe it to be an invariable rule that tyrants of genius are succeeded by scoundrels." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

406. "Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

407. "I wouldn’t have thought it possible that there could exist such heartless and outright wicked people." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

408. "I believe that we have to content ourselves with our imperfect knowledge and understanding and treat values and moral obligations as a purely human problem, the most important of all human problems." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

409. "It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

410. "Everyone is aware of the difficult and menacing situation in which human society, shrunk into one community with a common fate, finds itself, but only a few act accordingly." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

411. "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) Click to tweet

412. "Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

413. "Morality is of the highest importance – but for us, not for god." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

414. "Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

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415. "The measure of intelligence is the ability to change." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

416. "We will not change the hearts of other men by mechanisms, but by changing our hearts and speaking bravely… when we are clear in heart and mind – only then – shall we find courage to surmount the fear which haunts the world." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

417. "All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

418. "The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

419. "A photograph never grows old. You and i change, people change all through the months and years but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why i think a photograph can be kind." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

420. "Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances of survival for life on earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

421. "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) Click to tweet

422. "Innovation is not the product of logical thought, although the result is tied to logical structure." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

423. "Thinking is hard work; that’s why so few do it." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

424. "I must be willing to give up what i am in order to become what i will be." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet