Albert Einstein Quotes

Albert Einstein is one of the most renowned physicists in history. His work has had a profound impact on modern physics. But Albert Einstein was more than just a physicist – he was also a philosopher and humanitarian. He was deeply concerned with the social and ethical implications of his work and his insights have inspired people for generations. Here are some of the best quotes from Albert Einstein that will inspire you to think about the world in new ways.

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

    Albert Einstein

  • Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

    Albert Einstein

  • I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

    Albert Einstein

  • Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

    Albert Einstein

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

    Albert Einstein

  • The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

    Albert Einstein

  • The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.

    Albert Einstein

  • Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.

    Albert Einstein

  • A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?

    Albert Einstein

  • If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

    Albert Einstein

  • Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

    Albert Einstein

  • Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

    Albert Einstein

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

    Albert Einstein

  • Coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous.

    Albert Einstein

  • If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.

    Albert Einstein

  • I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

    Albert Einstein

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

    Albert Einstein

  • It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.

    Albert Einstein

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

    Albert Einstein

  • We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.

    Albert Einstein

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

    Albert Einstein

  • I never think of the future – it comes soon enough.

    Albert Einstein

  • The only source of knowledge is experience.

    Albert Einstein

  • The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.

    Albert Einstein

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

    Albert Einstein

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

    Albert Einstein

  • Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

    Albert Einstein

  • If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

    Albert Einstein

  • Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.

    Albert Einstein

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

    Albert Einstein

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

    Albert Einstein

  • Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

    Albert Einstein

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

    Albert Einstein

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

    Albert Einstein

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

    Albert Einstein

  • He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

    Albert Einstein

  • A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

    Albert Einstein

  • Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.

    Albert Einstein

  • Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

    Albert Einstein

  • We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

    Albert Einstein

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

    Albert Einstein

  • Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

    Albert Einstein

  • Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

    Albert Einstein

  • You can’t blame gravity for falling in love.

    Albert Einstein

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

    Albert Einstein

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

    Albert Einstein

  • Before God we are all equally wise – and equally foolish.

    Albert Einstein

  • Anyone who doesn’t take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

    Albert Einstein

  • The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.

    Albert Einstein

  • 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.

    Albert Einstein

  • Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

    Albert Einstein

  • You can’t blame gravity for falling in love.

    Albert Einstein

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

    Albert Einstein

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

    Albert Einstein

  • Before God we are all equally wise – and equally foolish.

    Albert Einstein

  • Anyone who doesn’t take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

    Albert Einstein

  • The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.

    Albert Einstein

  • 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.

    Albert Einstein

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

    Albert Einstein

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

    Albert Einstein

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

    Albert Einstein

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

    Albert Einstein

  • Love is a better teacher than duty.

    Albert Einstein

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

    Albert Einstein

  • The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

    Albert Einstein

  • An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

    Albert Einstein

  • 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.

    Albert Einstein

  • It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

    Albert Einstein

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

    Albert Einstein

  • Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

    Albert Einstein

  • A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

    Albert Einstein

  • You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

    Albert Einstein

  • We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.

    Albert Einstein

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

    Albert Einstein

  • All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.

    Albert Einstein

  • I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.

    Albert Einstein

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

    Albert Einstein

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

    Albert Einstein

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

    Albert Einstein

  • The man of science is a poor philosopher.

    Albert Einstein

  • 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.

    Albert Einstein

  • 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.

    Albert Einstein

  • The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

    Albert Einstein

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

    Albert Einstein

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

    Albert Einstein

  • 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.

    Albert Einstein

  • To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

    Albert Einstein

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

    Albert Einstein

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

    Albert Einstein

  • The only real valuable thing is intuition.

    Albert Einstein

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

    Albert Einstein

  • 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.

    Albert Einstein

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

    Albert Einstein

  • When the solution is simple, God is answering.

    Albert Einstein

  • The environment is everything that isn’t me.

    Albert Einstein

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

    Albert Einstein

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

    Albert Einstein

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

    Albert Einstein

  • Imagination is more important than knowledge.

    Albert Einstein

  • I want to go when I want. It is tasteless to prolong life artificially. I have done my share; it is time to go. I will do it elegantly.

    Albert Einstein

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

    Albert Einstein

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

    Albert Einstein

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

    Albert Einstein

  • The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

    Albert Einstein

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

    Albert Einstein

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

    Albert Einstein

  • I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

    Albert Einstein

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

    Albert Einstein

  • Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today’s events.

    Albert Einstein

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

    Albert Einstein

  • Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.

    Albert Einstein

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

    Albert Einstein

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

    Albert Einstein

  • In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.

    Albert Einstein

  • Information is not knowledge.

    Albert Einstein

  • 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.

    Albert Einstein

  • Never lose a holy curiosity.

    Albert Einstein

  • Joy in looking and comprehending is nature’s most beautiful gift.

    Albert Einstein

  • Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

    Albert Einstein

  • I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.

    Albert Einstein

  • People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.

    Albert Einstein

  • The faster you go, the shorter you are.

    Albert Einstein

  • I love to travel, but hate to arrive.

    Albert Einstein

  • 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.

    Albert Einstein

  • God does not play dice.

    Albert Einstein

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

    Albert Einstein

  • We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.

    Albert Einstein

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

    Albert Einstein

  • The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.

    Albert Einstein

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

    Albert Einstein

  • I have just got a new theory of eternity.

    Albert Einstein

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

    Albert Einstein

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

    Albert Einstein

  • Mozart’s music is so pure and beautiful that I see it as a reflection of the inner beauty of the universe.

    Albert Einstein

  • Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.

    Albert Einstein

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

    Albert Einstein

  • True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

    Albert Einstein

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

    Albert Einstein

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

    Albert Einstein

  • Force always attracts men of low morality.

    Albert Einstein

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

    Albert Einstein

  • 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.

    Albert Einstein

  • 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.

    Albert Einstein

  • God always takes the simplest way.

    Albert Einstein

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

    Albert Einstein

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

    Albert Einstein

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

    Albert Einstein

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

    Albert Einstein

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

    Albert Einstein

  • It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

    Albert Einstein