Quotes By Albert Einstein

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

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

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

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

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.

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

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

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

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

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

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

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

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

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

Force always attracts men of low morality.

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

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

When the solution is simple, God is answering.

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.

Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.

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

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

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

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

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

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

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.

Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.