Albert Einstein Quotes and its meanings

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

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.

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.

It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.

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

If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.

Strange is our situation here upon earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know - that man is here for the sake of other men.

We have to do the best we can. This is our sacred human responsibility.

The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who dont do anything about it.

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

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and have forgotten the gift.

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

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

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

The environment is everything that isn't me.

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

The only source of knowledge is experience.

It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

God always takes the simplest way.

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.

It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.

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

If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.

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.

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

God always takes the simplest way.

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

I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.

It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin what else does a man need to be happy?

The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.

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

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

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. Thats relativity.

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and Im not sure about the universe.

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

We should take care not to make the intellect our god it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

The only source of knowledge is experience.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.

The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Force always attracts men of low morality.

You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.

Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

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 suffice.

Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

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

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.

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

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

If someone feels that he has never made a mistake in his life, it only means that he has never tried anything new in his life.

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!

Peace cannot be kept by force it can only be achieved by understanding.

I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.

It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.

Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.

Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.

Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.

All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.

Strange is our situation here upon earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know - that man is here for the sake of other men.

We have to do the best we can. This is our sacred human responsibility.

One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.

Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

We have to do the best we can. This is our sacred human responsibility.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

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

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

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

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 suffice.

I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

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

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.