ALBERT EINSTEIN QUOTES

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."
"Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results."
"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle."

"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important
than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."

"Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere."

"If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself."

"If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more
intelligent, read them more fairy tales."

"The difference between genius and stupidity is; genius has its limits."

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

"Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources"

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."

"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."

"Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous."

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

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

"I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the
university."

"A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it."

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

"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving."

"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious."

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

"Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing
stripes with plaid comes easy."

"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."

"Never memorize something that you can look up."

"Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the
attention it deserves."

"Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole
life believing that it is stupid."

"Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love."

"If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my
daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music."

"The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without
changing our thinking."

"A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of
optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to
our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free
ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures
and the whole of nature in its beauty."

"Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value."

"The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious - the fundamental emotion which
stands at the cradle of true art and true science."

"Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler."

"The best way to cheer yourself is to cheer somebody else up."

"Black holes are where God divided by zero."

"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity"

"You never fail until you stop trying."

"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought
with sticks and stones."

"If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?"

"Creativity is intelligence having fun."

"Love is a better master than duty."

"What is right is not always popular and what is popular is not always right."

"When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand
again."

"If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your
mouth shut"

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

"It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer."

"Out of clutter, find simplicity."

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

"Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile."

"God does not play dice with the universe."

"We dance for laughter, we dance for tears, we dance for madness, we dance for fears, we dance
for hopes, we dance for screams, we are the dancers, we create the dreams."

"A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?"

"I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right."

"Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth."

"Nothing happens until something moves."

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

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

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

"Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts."

"I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be."

"Any fool can know. The point is to understand. "

"Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope
they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed."

"Time is an illusion."

"God did not create evil. Just as darkness is the absence of light, evil is the absence of God."

"You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war."

"It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would
be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure."

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

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

"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. "

"Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters"

"The measure of intelligence is the ability to change."

"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch
of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction."

"Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character."

"The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible."

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

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

"I want to know God's thoughts - the rest are mere details."

"The only reason for time is so that everything doesnt happen at once."

"You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created."

"Even on the most solemn occasions I got away without wearing socks and hid that lack of
civilization in high boots "

"Genius is 1% talent and 99% percent hard work..."

"God is subtle but he is not malicious."

"I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes
are modeled after our own -- a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can
I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such
thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms."

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

"What a sad era when it is easier to smash an atom than a prejudice."

"One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive
and childlike -- and yet it is the most precious thing we have."

"When the solution is simple, God is answering."

"A ship is always safe at the shore - but that is NOT what it is built for."

"It is my view that the vegetarian manner of living, by its purely physical effect on the human
temperament, would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind."

"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."

"Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them."

"We all know that light travels faster than sound. That's why certain people appear bright until
you hear them speak."

"The only real valuable thing is intuition."

"The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses,
the Bible a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty
childish. No interpretation no matter how subtle can (for me) change this."

"I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity."

"A person starts to live when he can live outside himself."


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

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

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

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