Quotes from Albert Einstein

The individual who has experienced solitude will not easily become a victim of mass suggestion.

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.

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.

I know that the most joy in my life has come to me from my violin.

Live your life... as though everything is a miracle.

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.

We believe that an informed citizenry will act for life and not for death.

Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events.

The future is of greater interest to me than the past, since that is where I intend to spend the rest of my life.

A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.

In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not.

Striving for social justice is the most valuable thing to do in life.

It is better to believe than to disbelieve; in doing you bring everything to the realm of possibility.

Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.

The only thing we can be certain of in this life is that we can be certain of nothing.

Given the millions of billions of Earth-like planets, life elsewhere in the Universe without a doubt, does exist. In the vastness of the Universe we are not alone.

A life directed chiefly toward the fulfillment of personal desires will sooner or later always lead to bitter disappointment.

When I was still a rather precocious young man, I already realized most vividly the futility of the hopes and aspirations that most men pursue throughout their lives.

The most important decision we make is whether we believe we live in a friendly or hostile universe.

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

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

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.

Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.

Any society which does not insist upon respect for all life must necessarily decay.