The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
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.
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?
Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.
Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.
It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.
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.
That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.
A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
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.
Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
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.
Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.
Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.
True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.
The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.
Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.
There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.
The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.
Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.
I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.
Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature.
Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
There could be no fairer destiny for any physical theory than that it should point the way to a more comprehensive theory in which it lives on as a limiting case.
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.
//Albert Einstein//
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