Recommended Reading
- ‘Einstein: His Life and Universe‘ by Walter Isaacson
- ‘The World As I See It‘ by Albert Einstein
- ‘Ideas And Opinions‘ by Albert Einstein
- ‘Einstein on Cosmic Religion and Other Opinions and Aphorisms‘ by Albert Einstein, George Bernard Shaw
- ‘The Ultimate Quotable Einstein‘ by Albert Einstein, Alice Calaprice, Freeman Dyson
Inspirational Quotes by Albert Einstein (German-born Theoretical Physicist)
Intelligence makes clear to us the interrelationship of means and ends. But mere thinking cannot give us a sense of the ultimate and fundamental ends. To make clear these fundamental ends and valuations and to set them fast in the emotional life of the individual, seems to me precisely the most important function which religion has to form in the social life of man.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Intelligence
If we knew what we were doing it wouldn’t be research.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Research
The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Time
The only way to escape the personal corruption of praise is to go on working.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Praise
We have to do the best we can. This is our sacred human responsibility.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Responsibility
To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Authority
It is only to the individual that a soul is given.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Soul
A successful man is he who receives a great deal from his fellow men, usually incomparably more than corresponds to his service to them. The value of a man, however, should be seen in what he gives, and not in what he is able to receive.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Success
When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That’s relativity.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Science
When I study philosophical works I feel I am swallowing something which I don’t have in my mouth.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Philosophy
On the other hand, the concept owes its meaning and its justification exclusively to the totality of the sense impressions which we associate with it.
—Albert Einstein
All our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike—yet it is the most precious thing we have.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Science
A theory is the more impressive the greater is the simplicity of its premises, the more different are the kinds of things it relates and the more extended the range of its applicability.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Assumptions, Theory
Our defense is not in our armaments, nor in science, nor in going underground. Our defense is in law and order.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Law
The most evident difference springs from the important part which is played in man by a relatively strong power of imagination and by the capacity to think, aided as it is by language and other symbolically devices.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Imagination
You can’t blame gravity for falling in love.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Love
The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. The religion which based on experience, which refuses dogmatic. If there’s any religion that would cope the scientific needs it will be Buddhism….
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Religion
According to this conception, the sole function of education was to open the way to thinking and knowing, and the school, as the outstanding organ for the people’s education, must serve that end exclusively.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Education
If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Life, Entrepreneurs, Happy, People, Goal, Goals
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with the important matters.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Truth, Character, The Truth
Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Accomplishment
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
Before God we are equally wise—and equally foolish.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Wisdom
Only a life lived for others is a life worth while.
—Albert Einstein
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Creativity
A calm and modest life brings more happiness than the pursuit of success combined with constant restlessness.
—Albert Einstein
I don’t know the weapons that will be used in the Third World War, but in the Forth, men will use wood and stones.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Weapon
Any power must be an enemy of mankind which enslaves the individual by terror and force, whether it arises under the Fascist or the Communist flag. All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded to the individual.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Value, Tyranny, Terrorism
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
One may say ‘the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility’.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: World
Wondering Whom to Read Next?
- Werner Heisenberg German Theoretical Physicist
- J. Robert Oppenheimer American Physicist
- Wernher von Braun German-born American Engineer
- Stephen Hawking English Theoretical Physicist
- Max Planck German Theoretical Physicist
- Richard Feynman American Physicist
- Niels Bohr Danish Physicist
- Hermann Hesse Swiss Novelist, Poet
- Charles Proteus Steinmetz German-born American Mathematician
- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe German-born American Architect
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