Quotes from Albert Einstein

Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible.

Those who have the privilege to know have the duty to act, and in that action are the seeds of new knowledge.

Ego=1/Knowledge" More the knowledge lesser the ego, lesser the knowledge more the ego.

Coincidence is God's way of staying anonymous.

Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem - in my opinion - to characterize our age.

Only a life lived for others is worth living.

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.

The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest.

A man's value to the community primarily depends on how far his feelings, thoughts, and actions are directed towards promoting the good of his fellows.

I am convinced that He (God) does not play dice.

Everyone tries to define this thing called Character. It's not hard. Character is doing what's right when nobody's looking Most people say that is it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality.

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....

A country cannot simultaneously prepare and prevent war.

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

Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.

Innovation is not the product of logical thought, although the result is tied to logical structure.

Never regard study as a duty but as an enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later works belong.

If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.

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

You cannot beat a roulette table unless you steal money from it.

In light of knowledge attained, the happy achievement seems almost a matter of course, and any intelligent student can grasp it without too much trouble. But the years of anxious searching in the dark, with their intense longing, their alterations of confidence and exhaustion and the final emergence into the light -- only those who have experienced it can understand it