Quotes from Albert Einstein

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

If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism.

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

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.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.

If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.

I believe in intuitions and inspirations...I sometimes FEEL that I am right. I do not KNOW that I am.

The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!

Life is a preparation for the future; and the best preparation for the future is to live as if there were none.

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.

When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking.

The only real valuable thing is intuition.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

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.

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.

Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.

We can not solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them

Somebody who only reads newspapers and at best books of contemporary authors looks to me like an extremely near-sighted person who scorns eyeglasses. He is completely dependent on the prejudices and fashions of his times, since he never gets to see or hear anything else.

When the solution is simple, God is answering.

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

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

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

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

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.