Albert Einstein People Quotations

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

Most people say that is it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.

Here I am, just an actress with nothing to say and crowds of people turn up to see me. Yet here is Einstein and the only person who turns up for him is myself.

People will not disarm step by step; they will disarm at one blow or not at all.

Overpopulation in various countries has become a serious threat to the health of people and a grave obstacle to any attempt to organise peace on this planet

I am not a positivist. Positivism states that what cannot be observed does not exist. This conception is scientifically indefensible, for it is impossible to make valid affirmations of what people 'can' or 'cannot' observe. One would have to say 'only what we observe exists,' which is obviously false.

There exists a passion for comprehension, just as there exists a passion for music. That passion is rather common in children, but gets lost in most people later on. Without this passion there would be neither mathematics nor natural science.

People like you and I, though mortal of course like everyone else, do not grow old no matter how long we live.

There is separation of colored people from white people in the United States. That separation is not a disease of colored people. It is a disease of white people. And, I do not intend to be quiet about it.

People are like bicycles. They can keep their balance only as long as they keep moving.

It is both auspicious and peaceful for people to choose vegetarinism.

Most people see what is, and never see what can be.

May the conscience and the common sense of the peoples be awakened, so that we may reach a new stage in the life of nations, where people will look back on war as an incomprehensible aberration of their forefathers!

People should be more like animals . . . they should be more intuitive; they should not be too conscious of what they do while they do it.

Scientific research can reduce superstition by encouraging people to think and view things in terms of cause and effect.

If people would only talk about what they understood, Earth would be a very quiet place.

The tragedy of life is what dies in the hearts and souls of people while they live.

In the view of such harmony in the cosmos which I, with my limited human mind, am able to recognize, there are yet people who says there is no God. But what makes me really angry is that they quote me for support of such views. (The Expanded Quotable Einstein, Princeton University, page 214)

For me the Jewish religion like all others is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions, and the Jewish people to whom I gladly belong and with whose mentality I have a deep affinity have no different quality for me than all other people. As far as my experience goes, they are no better than other human groups, although they are protected from the worst cancers by a lack of power. Otherwise I cannot see anything chosenabout them.

Formerly, people thought that if matter disappeared from the universe, space and time would remain. Relativity declares that space and time would disappear with matter.

In a healthy nation there is a kind of dramatic balance between the will of the people and the government, which prevents its degeneration into tyranny.

Freedom of teaching and of opinion in book or press is the foundation for the sound and natural development of any people.

The laws of gravity cannot be held responcible for people falling in love.

The ability to portray people in still life and in motion requires the highest measure of intuition and talent.

Be kind to people who are different from you.

I never said half the crap people said I did.

There is nothing divine about morality; it is a purely human affair. If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed. What the individual can do is to give a fine example, and to have the courage to uphold ethical values .. in a society of cynics.

Nothing will end war unless the people refuse to go to war.

Not until the creation and maintenance of decent conditions of life for all people are recognized and accepted as a common obligation of all people and all countries - not until then shall we, with a certain degree of justification, be able to speak of humankind as civilized.

Most people go on living their everyday life: half-frightened, half indifferent, they behold the ghostly tragic-comedy that is being performed on the international stage before the eyes and ears of the world.

You cannot love a car the way you love a horse. The horse brings out human feelings the way machines cannot do. Things like machines may develop or neglect certain things in people ... Machines make our life impersonal and stultify certain elements in us and create an impersonal environment.

Compassionate people are geniuses in the art of living, more necessary to the dignity, security, and joy of humanity than the discoverers of knowledge.

To obtain an assured favorable response from people, it is better to offer them something for their stomachs instead of their brains.

How many people are trapped in their everyday habits: part numb, part frightened, part indifferent? To have a better life we must keep choosing how we are living.

I prefer to make up my own quotes and attribute them to very smart people, so that I can use them to win arguments

All that's different about me is that I still ask the questions most people stopped asking at age five.

Well, I have considered myself to be very fortunate in that I have been able to do mostly only that which my inner self told me to do... I am also aware that I do receive much criticism from the outside world for what I do and some people actually get angry at me. But this does not really touch me because I feel that these people do not live in he same world as do I.

One has a feeling that one has a kind of home in this timeless community of human beings that strive for truth. ... I have always believed that Jesus meant by the Kingdom of God the small group scattered all through time of intellectually and ethically valuable people.

The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.

Organized people are just too lazy to go looking for what they want.

While I am a convinced pacifist there are circumstances in which I believe the use of force is appropriate - namely, in the face of an enemy unconditionally bent on destroying me and my people.

There is, however, a somber point in the social outlook of Americans. Their sense of equality and human dignity is mainly limited to people of white skin.... The more I feel like an American, the more the situation pains me.

My relationship to the Jewish people has become my strongest human bond, ever since I became fully aware of our precarious situation among the nations of the world.

The more cruel the wrong that men commit against an individual or a people, the deeper their hatred and contempt for their victim.

The first and most important necessity is the creation of a modus vivendi with the Arab people.

There is no scientific antidote, only education. You've got to change the way people think. I am not interested in disarmament talks between nations . . . What I want to do is to disarm the mind. After that, everything else will automatically follow. The ultimate weapon for such mental disarmament is international education.

Those people have seen 'something'. What it is I do not know and I can not care to know.

I do not believe in race as such. Race is a fraud. All modern people are the conglomeration of so many ethnic mixtures that no pure race remains.

I want to be cremated so people won't come to worship at my bones.

Marvellous, what ideas the young people have these days. But I don't believe a word of it.

There are few enough people with sufficient independence to see the weaknesses and follies of their contemporaries and remain themselves untouched by them.

All my life I have dealt with objective matters; hence I lack both the natural aptitude and the experience to deal properly with people and to carry out official functions.

Those who manage their way into a crisis are not necessarily the right people to manage their way out of a crisis

Most people stop looking when they find the proverbial needle in the haystack. I would continue looking to see if there were other needles.

I think we have to safeguard ourselves against people who are a menace to others, quite apart from what may have motivated their deeds.

Mysticism is in fact the only criticism people cannot level against my theory.

There are yet people who say there is no God. But what really makes me angry is that they quote me for the support of such views

Selection [of UN delegates] by governments cannot give the peoples of the world the feeling of being fairly and proportionately represented. The moral authority of the UN would be considerable enhanced if the delegates were elected directly by the people. Were they responsible to an electorate, they would have much more freedom to follow their consciences.

Members of legislative bodies are selected by political parties, largely financed or otherwise influenced by private capitalists who, for all practical purposes, separate the electorate from the legislature. The consequence is that the representatives of the people do not in fact sufficiently protect the interests of the underprivileged sections of the population.

People start their lives at last when they are able to live for something other than themselves.

I like the Swiss because by and large they are more humane than the other people aming whom I have lived.

Live with purpose. Don't let people or things around you get you down.

Einstein was attending a music salon in Germany before the second world war, with the violinist S. Suzuki. Two Japanese women played a German piece of music and a woman in the audience exclaimed: "How wonderful! It sounds so German!" Einstein responded: "Madam, people are all the same."

It is the same with people as it is with riding a bike. Only when moving can one comfortably maintain one's balance.

There could be no greater calamity than a permanent discord between us and the Arab people. Despite the great wrong that has been done us, we must strive for a just and lasting compromise with the Arab people Let us recall that in former times no people lived in greater friendship with us than the ancestors of these Arabs.

What a person thinks on his own without being stimulated by the thoughts and experiences of the other people is even in the best case rather paltry and monotonous.

Capitalism creates a huge community of producers who are unceasingly striving to deprive each other of the fruits of their collective labor, and an oligarchy that cannot be effectively checked even by a democratically organized society....the subjugation is not by force but because the privileged class has long ago established a system of values by which the people were thenceforth, to a large extent unconsciously, guided in their social behavior.

[Max Planck] was one of the finest people I have ever known... but he really didn't understand physics, [because] during the eclipse of 1919 he stayed up all night to see if it would confirm the bending of light by the gravitational field. If he had really understood [general relativity], he would have gone to bed the way I did

Nothing in the world makes people so afraid as the influence of independent-minded people.

... one does people the best service by giving them some elevating work to do and thus indirectly elevating them.

We found there were people doing acupuncture, meditation, naturopathy and other forms of alternative or complementary medicine ... but it was being done in a disorganized way,

Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

The world is a dangerous place. Not because of the people who are evil; but because of the people who don't do anything about it.

How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn;for what purpose we know not, though sometimes sense it. But we know from daily life that we exist for other people first of all for whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends

Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

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