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Quotes by Albert Einstein

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.
– Albert Einstein
True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.
– Albert Einstein
True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.
– Albert Einstein
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.
– Albert Einstein
Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
– Albert Einstein
We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.
– Albert Einstein
We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.
– Albert Einstein
We must be prepared to make heroic sacrifices for the cause of peace that we make ungrudgingly for the cause of war. There is no task that is more important or closer to my heart.
– Albert Einstein
We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.
– Albert Einstein
We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
– Albert Einstein
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking.
– Albert Einstein
When the solution is simple, God is answering.
– Albert Einstein
Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science.
– 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
Why does this applied science, which saves work and makes life easier, bring us so little happiness? The simple answer runs: Because we have not yet learned to make sensible use of it.
– Albert Einstein
You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one.
– Albert Einstein
You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
– Albert Einstein
You cannot beat a roulette table unless you steal money from it.
– Albert Einstein
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a persistent one.
– Albert Einstein
The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.
– Albert Einstein
To know that what is impenetrable 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.
– Albert Einstein
Since our inner experiences consist of reproductions and combinations of sensory impressions, the concept of a soul without a body seems to me to be empty and devoid of meaning.
– Albert Einstein
Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.
– Albert Einstein
Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.
– Albert Einstein
The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible.
– Albert Einstein
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.
– Albert Einstein
To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.
– Albert Einstein
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
– Albert Einstein
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.
– Albert Einstein
It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.
– Albert Einstein
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
– Albert Einstein
When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about.
– Albert Einstein
You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.
– Albert Einstein
You can't blame gravity for falling in love.
– Albert Einstein
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
– Albert Einstein
The man of science is a poor philosopher.
– Albert Einstein
Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.
– Albert Einstein
Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
– Albert Einstein
I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.
– Albert Einstein
I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion.
– Albert Einstein