Albert Einstein Quotes

I believe in Spinoza's God, who reveals Himself in the lawful harmony of the world, not in a God who concerns Himself with the fate and the doings of mankind...

to Rabbi Herbert Goldstein (1929)

Small is the number of them that see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

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

Intelligence is not the ability to store information, but to know where to find it.

Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth

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

Our separation from each other is an optical illusion.

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. That's relativity.

I am not a genius, I am just curious. I ask many questions. and when the answer is simple, then God is answering.

Do not grow old, no matter how long you live. Never cease to stand like curious children before the Great Mystery into which we were born.

Everyone must become their own person, however frightful that may be.

To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.

One cannot alter a condition with the same mind set that created it in the first place.

I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.

A society's competitive advantage will come not from how well its schools teach the multiplication and periodic tables, but from how well they stimulate imagination and creativity.