Albert Einstein Life Quotations

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

Creativity is intelligence having fun.

Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

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.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

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

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

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

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.

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

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.

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!

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.

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.

No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.

No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

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

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

It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.

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

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.

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

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

To the Master's honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton's ground.

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.

A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?

I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.

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

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

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

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

Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.

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

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

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

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.

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.

When the solution is simple, God is answering.

Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.

I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion.

One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

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

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

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

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

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

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.

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

There could be no fairer destiny for any physical theory than that it should point the way to a more comprehensive theory in which it lives on as a limiting case.

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

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

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

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

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

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

One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

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

The faster you go, the shorter you are.

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

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

If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.

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

Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.

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

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

You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one.

Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.

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

I have just got a new theory of eternity.

We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.

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

The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

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

Many times a day I realize how much my own life is built upon the labors of my fellowmen, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received

Many times a day I realize how much my own life is built on the labors of my fellowmen, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received.

one of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science isescape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopelessdreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. Afinely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into theworld of objective perception and thought.

Only a life lived in the service to others is worth living.

Only a life lived for others is worth living

Only a life lived for others is a life worth while.

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 every one, best both for the body and the mind.

Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury -- to me these have always been contemptible. I assume that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best for both the body and the mind

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

Do you believe in immortality? No, and one life is enough for me.

The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest.

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

Force always attracts men of low morality.

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

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.