Quotes By Albert Einstein

Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler.

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

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

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.

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

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

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

God always takes the simplest way.

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

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

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

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

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

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.

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

Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

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

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

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.

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

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

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.

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.

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