Albert Einstein Quotes

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

Student: Dr. Einstein, Aren't these the same questions as last year's [physics] final exam?

Dr. Einstein: Yes; But this year the answers are different.

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.

"Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social enviroment. Most people are incapable of forming such opinions."

(Essay to Leo Baeck, 1953)

From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that we are here for the sake of each other - above all for those upon whose smile and well-being our own happiness depends, and also for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected by a bond of sympathy. Many times a day I realize how much my own outer and inner life is built upon the labors of my fellow men, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received.

A true genius admits that he/she knows nothing.

If I had an hour to solve a problem I'd spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and 5 minutes thinking about solutions.

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

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

If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism.

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

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.