Quotes By Albert Einstein

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.

God always takes the simplest way.

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

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

God does not play dice.

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

I have just got a new theory of eternity.

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