Inspirational Quotes by Albert Einstein (German-born Theoretical Physicist)

Inspirational Quotes by Albert Einstein (German-born Theoretical Physicist)

The real problem is in the hearts and minds of men. It is not a problem of physics but of ethics. It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil from the spirit of man.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Evil

God is subtle but not malicious.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: God

Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Wisdom, Religion, Science

Humanity has every reason to place the proclaimers of high moral standards and values above the discoverers of objective truth. What humanity own to personalities like Buddha, Moses, and Jesus ranks for me higher than all the achievements of the of the inquiring constructive mind.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Ethics

Education is that which remains when one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Education

I believe that the first step in the setting of a real external world is the formation of the concept of bodily objects and of bodily objects of various kinds.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: World

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.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Talent, Curiosity, Endurance

Only a life lived in the service to others is worth living.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Service, Miscellaneous

In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Relationships

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Peace

For the most part, I do the thing which my own nature prompts me to do. It is embarrassing to earn so much respect and love for it.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Humility

Well-being and happiness never appeared to me as an absolute aim. I am even inclined to compare such moral aims to the ambitions of a pig.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Happiness

Only a life lived for others is a life worth while.
—Albert Einstein

The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Life, Philosophy

Morality is of the highest importance – but for us, not for God.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Morality

The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: America

No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Experiment

Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Solitude

Each makes this cosmos and its construction the pivot of his emotional life, in order to find in this way peace and security which he can not find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Individuality

The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Taxes

Well, I have considered myself to be very fortunate in that I have been able to do mostly only that which my inner self told me to do… I am also aware that I do receive much criticism from the outside world for what I do and some people actually get angry at me. But this does not really touch me because I feel that these people do not live in he same world as do I.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: War, Live, Act, People

Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Self Respect, Respect, Self-Esteem

Relativity applies to physics, not ethics.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Ethics

People like you and I, though mortal of course like everyone else, do not grow old no matter how long we live…We never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we were born.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Age

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Music, War, Peace

Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.
—Albert Einstein

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Good

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Understanding, Wildlife

In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself.
—Albert Einstein

It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Solitude, Loneliness, Peculiarity, Oddity

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