Quotes from Albert Einstein

Don't listen to their words, fix your attention on their deeds.

People like you and I, though mortal of course like everyone else, do not grow old no matter how long we live... [We] never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we were born. letter to Otto Juliusburger

Great ideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.

love to travel, But hate to arrive

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. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.

Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count.

Curiosity has its own reason for existence.

It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry.

Reality is merely an illusion, although a very persistent one

In that way imagination and intelligence enter into our existence in the part of servants of the primary instincts

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility.

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

The value of a man resides in what he gives and not in what he is capable of receiving.

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

And the high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule, or to impose himself in any other way.

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

It is appallingly obvious that our technology exceeds our humanity.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

It is harder to crack a prejudice than an atom.

In art, and in the higher ranges of science, there is a feeling of harmony which underlies all endeavor. There is no true greatness in art or science without that sense of harmony.

The Three Rules of Work: 1. Out of clutter, find simplicity. 2. From discord, find harmony. 3. In the middle of difficulty, lies opportunity

Our defense is not in our armaments, nor in science, nor in going underground. Our defense is in law and order.

You teach me baseball and I'll teach you relativity...No we must not You will learn about relativity faster than I learn baseball