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Albert Einstein

1879 - 1955. German-born physicist, best known for his theory of relativity, he got Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921.

1. "Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions."

categories: Reality and Imagination

2. "Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it."

categories: Wisdom and Stupidity -:- Education

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

categories: Truth and Falsity -:- Knowledge, Ignorance

4. "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."

categories: Art and Culture -:- Nature and Animals -:- Science and Technology

5. "When the solution is simple, God is answering."

categories: God and Religion -:- Question and Problem

6. "What does a fish know about the water in which it swims all its life?"

categories: Nature and Animals -:- Knowledge, Ignorance

7. "Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character."

categories: Power and Weakness

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

categories: Intellect, Judgement

9. "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."

categories: Nature and Animals -:- Wisdom and Stupidity

10. "Try to become not a man of success, but try rather to become a man of value."

categories: Various

11. "Truth is what stands the test of experience."

categories: Truth and Falsity

12. "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."

categories: History and Nations -:- Richness and Money

13. "Time is what a clock measures."

categories: Time and Passing

14. "There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."

categories: Life and Death

15. "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."

categories: Good and Evil

16. "The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives."

categories: Life and Death -:- Pain and Tears

17. "The tragedy of life is what dies in the hearts and souls of people while they live."

categories: Life and Death -:- Sorrow and Nostalgia

18. "The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."

categories: Talent and Genius

19. "The search for truth is more precious than its possession."

categories: Truth and Falsity

20. "The release of atomic power has changed everything except our way of thinking [...] the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker."

categories: Human -:- Question and Problem

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

categories: Beauty and Ugliness -:- Truth and Falsity

22. "The physicists say that I am a mathematician, and the mathematicians say that I am a physicist. I am a completely isolated man and though everybody knows me, there are very few people who really know me."

categories: Science and Technology

23. "The most fundamental question we can ever ask ourselves is whether or not the universe we live in is friendly or hostile."

categories: Nature and Animals -:- Science and Technology -:- Question and Problem

24. "The hardest thing to understand is why we can understand anything at all."

categories: Intellect, Judgement

25. "The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax."

categories: Authority, Government -:- Richness and Money

26. "The fanatical atheists are like slaves who are still feeling the weight of their chains which they have thrown off after hard struggle. They are creatures who--in their grudge against traditional religion as the "opium of the masses"--cannot hear the music of the spheres."

categories: God and Religion

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

categories: Wisdom and Stupidity -:- Talent and Genius

28. "The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while."

categories: Power and Weakness -:- Wisdom and Stupidity

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

categories: Science and Technology

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

categories: Family and Loneliness -:- Youth and Age

31. "So long as there are men there will be wars."

categories: Human -:- Peace and War

32. "Relativity teaches us the connection between the different descriptions of one and the same reality."

categories: Science and Technology -:- Reality and Imagination

33. "Relativity applies to physics, not ethics."

categories: Manners and Ethics

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

categories: Reality and Imagination

35. "Put your hand on a hot stove and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That's relativity."

categories: Various -:- Woman and Man

36. "Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding."

categories: Peace and War

37. "Our technology has surpassed our humanity."

categories: Human -:- Science and Technology

38. "No one can read the Gospels without feeling the actual presence of Jesus. His personality pulsates in every word. No myth is filled with such life."

categories: God and Religion

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

categories: Authority, Government -:- Sin and Conscience

40. "Nature shows us only the tail of the lion. But I do not doubt that the lion belongs to it even though he cannot at once reveal himself because of his enormous size."

categories: Nature and Animals -:- Science and Technology

41. "Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving."

categories: Life and Death

42. "It is harder to crack a prejudice than an atom."

categories: Manners and Ethics

43. "It is a scale of proportions which makes the bad difficult and the good easy."

categories: Good and Evil

44. "Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."

categories: Normality and Madness

45. "In one's youth every person and every event appear to be unique. With age, one becomes much more aware that similar events recur. Later on, one is less often delighted or surprised, but also less disappointed."

source: "Letter to Queen Elizabeth of Belgium"

categories: Time and Passing -:- Youth and Age

46. "Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution."

categories: Knowledge, Ignorance -:- Reality and Imagination

47. "If we knew what we were doing it wouldn't be research."

categories: Science and Technology -:- Knowledge, Ignorance

48. "If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed."

categories: Bravery and Fear -:- Law and Crime -:- Good and Evil

49. "If my theory of relativity is proven correct, 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 that I am a German and Germany will declare that I am a Jew. "

categories: History and Nations -:- Science and Technology -:- Success and Fame

50. "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z ; X is work, Y is play, and Z is keeping your mouth shut."

categories: Oration and Silence -:- Success and Fame

51. "I want to know God's thoughts; the rest are details. "

categories: God and Religion

52. "I never think of the future - it comes soon enough."

categories: Time and Passing

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

categories: Peace and War -:- Various

54. "God does not play dice with the universe."

categories: God and Religion

55. "Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom."

categories: Freedom and Servitude

56. "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler."

categories: Various

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

categories: Science and Technology -:- Education

58. "Computers are incredibly fast, accurate and stupid. Human beings are incredibly slow, inaccurate and brilliant. Together they are powerful beyond imagination."

categories: Human -:- Science and Technology

59. "Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down by the mind before you reach eighteen."

categories: Intellect, Judgement -:- Manners and Ethics

60. "Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous."

categories: God and Religion

61. "Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish."

categories: God and Religion -:- Wisdom and Stupidity

62. "As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding it."

categories: Knowledge, Ignorance

63. "As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable."

categories: History and Nations -:- Peace and War

64. "As 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."

categories: Science and Technology -:- Reality and Imagination

65. "Any fool can know. The point is to understand."

categories: Intellect, Judgement -:- Wisdom and Stupidity

66. "All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom."

categories: Art and Culture -:- God and Religion -:- Science and Technology

67. "A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future."

categories: Happiness -:- Time and Passing

68. "A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it."

categories: Wisdom and Stupidity -:- Question and Problem

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