Albert Einstein Quotes

Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions.

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.

For an idea that does not first seem insane, there is no hope.

As the area of light expands, so does the perimeter of darkness.

I asked myself childish questions and proceeded to answer them.

The strength of the Constitution lies entirely in the determination of each citizen to defend it. Only if every single citizen feels duty bound to do his share in this defense are the constitutional rights secure.

If I had known they were going to do this, I would have become a shoemaker.

Striving for social justice is the most valuable thing to do in life.

I think 99 times and find nothing. I stop thinking, swim in silence, and the truth comes to me.

In the view of such harmony in the cosmos which I, with my limited human mind, am able to recognize, there are yet people who says there is no God. But what makes me really angry is that they quote me for support of such views. (The Expanded Quotable Einstein, Princeton University, page 214)

A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; 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.

The man with the greatest soul will always face the greatest war with the low minded person.

Curiosity is more important than knowledge.

Intelligent life on other planets? I'm not even sure there is on earth!

The definition of genius is taking the complex and making it simple.