Albert Einstein Rat Quotations

Violence sometimes may have cleared away obstructions quickly, but it never has proved itself creative.

In the middle of difficulties lie opportunities.

The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.

Combinatory play seems to be the essential feature in productive thought.

I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.

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.

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

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

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

I live my daydreams in music.

Life is a preparation for the future; and the best preparation for the future is to live as if there were none.

I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.

I think that only daring speculation can lead us further and not accumulation of facts.

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.

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.

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.

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

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

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

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

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.

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

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.

Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events.

I didn't arrive at my understanding of the fundamental laws of the universe through my rational mind.

What a sad era when it is easier to smash an atom than a prejudice.

Black holes are where God divided by zero.

If I had an hour to solve a problem I'd spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and 5 minutes thinking about solutions.

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity. From discord find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

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

To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.

What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the World.

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

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

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.

That which is impenetrable to us really exists. Behind the secrets of nature remains something subtle, intangible, and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion.

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.

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

Everyone has two choices. We're either full of love... or full of fear.

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.

The most important decision we make is whether we believe we live in a friendly or hostile universe.

If I were to remain silent, I'd be guilty of complicity.

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

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

It's not that life has been easy, perfect or exactly as expected. I just choose to be happy and grateful no matter how it all turns out. If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

The horizon of many people is a circle with a radius of zero. They call this their point of view.

Only a monomaniac gets anything done.

I have little patience with scientists who take a board of wood, look for its thinnest part, and drill a great number of holes where drilling is easy.

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.

One picture is worth a thousand words

How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of good will.

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.

Genius is 1% talent and 99% percent hard work...

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.

The trouble with the younger generation is that they don't stay young for very long.

God does not play dice.

If I could do it all again, I'd be a plumber.

A life directed chiefly toward the fulfillment of personal desires will sooner or later always lead to bitter disappointment.

Creativity is intelligence having fun.

Nothing truly valuable can be achieved except by the unselfish cooperation of many individuals.

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

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…

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.

Information is not knowledge.

If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism.

God always takes the simplest way.

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

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.

I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.

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.

Common sense is what tells us the earth is flat.

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

I believe in intuition and inspiration...at times I feel certain I am right while not knowing the reason.

We are all life trying to live, among other life trying to live.

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

It is only to the individual that a soul is given.

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

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

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

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

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

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second.

That's my mathematician who examines problems which I put before him and checks their validity. You see, I am not myself a good mathematician.

Creativity is Inspiration having fun

If you've never failed, you've never tried anything new.

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.

You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.

The only real valuable thing is intuition.

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

The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.

When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about.

Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.

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.

Everyone must become their own person, however frightful that may be.

It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.