A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.
Albert Einstein
A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.
Albert Einstein
A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
Albert EinsteinA question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?
Albert EinsteinA table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?
Albert EinsteinAll religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.
Albert EinsteinAll that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.
Albert EinsteinAll these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man’s actions.
Albert EinsteinAn empty stomach is not a good political adviser.
Albert EinsteinAnger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
Albert EinsteinAny intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex… It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
Albert EinsteinAny man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.
Albert EinsteinAny man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Albert EinsteinAnyone who doesn’t take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
Albert EinsteinAnyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
Albert EinsteinAs far as I’m concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
Albert EinsteinAs far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
Albert EinsteinBefore God we are all equally wise – and equally foolish.
Albert EinsteinCommon sense invents and constructs no less than its own field than science does in its domain. It is, however, in the nature of common sense not to be aware of this situation.
Albert EinsteinCommon sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
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 EinsteinConfusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.
Albert EinsteinDo not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
Albert EinsteinEducation is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
Albert EinsteinEveryone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.
Albert EinsteinEverything should be as simple as it is, but not simpler.
Albert EinsteinEverything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.
Albert EinsteinFew are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.
Albert EinsteinFew 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 EinsteinForce always attracts men of low morality.
Albert EinsteinGod always takes the simplest way.
Albert EinsteinGod does not play dice.
Albert EinsteinGod may be subtle, but he isn’t plain mean.
Albert EinsteinGravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
Albert EinsteinGreat spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Albert EinsteinHe who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
Albert EinsteinHe who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.
Albert EinsteinHeroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism – how passionately I hate them!
Albert EinsteinHuman beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
Albert EinsteinI am a deeply religious nonbeliever – this is a somewhat new kind of religion.
Albert Einstein