Quotes By Author
Quotations By Albert Einstein
Age
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
American
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.
Animals
You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.
Beliefs
Conceptions without experience are void; experience without conceptions is blind.
Change
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
Conflict
Great ideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Conformity
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary.
Criticism
The individual must not merely wait and criticize, he must defend the cause the best he can. The fate of the world will be such as the world deserves.
Education
Education is a series of prejudices acquired by the age of eighteen.
Emotion
The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mystical. It is the power of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. To know that what is inpenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their most primitive forms—this knowledge, this feeling, is at the center of true religiousness. In this sense, and in this sense only, I belong to the rank of devoutly religious men.
Endurance
I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism have brought me to my ideas.
Ethics
True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.
Ethics
I do not believe in the immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern without any superhuman authority behind it.
Ethics
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
Government
If my theory of relativty is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say I am a German and Germany will declare that I am a Jew. -- Albert Einstein
Imagination
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Inspiration
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Inspiration
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Inspiration
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Joy
Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.
Love
Gravity is not responsible for people falling in love.
Mystery
The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious…. the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.
Spirituality
When the solution is simple, God is answering.
Success
If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.
Success
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value
Taxes
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.