Quotes from Albert Einstein

Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity I do not understand it myself any more.

The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.

My pacifism is an instinctive feeling, a feeling that possesses me because the murder of men is disgusting. My attitude is not derived from any intellectual theory but is based on my deepest antipathy to every kind of cruelty and hatred.

Failing isn't bad when you learn what not to do.

Success = 1 part work + 1 part play + 1 part keep your mouth shut

If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, then man would have only four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man.

Earth is the insane asylum of the universe.

Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.

There is nothing known as Perfect. Its only those imperfections which we choose not to see!!

The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. It should transcend a personal God and avoid dogmas and theology. Covering both the natural and the spiritual, it should be based on a religious sense arising from the experience of all things, natural and spiritual, as a meaningful unity. Buddhism answers this description.

The person who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The person who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever seen before.

Concerning matter, we have been all wrong. What we have called matter is energy, whose vibration has been so lowered as to be perceptible to the senses. There is no matter.

We are all life trying to live, among other life trying to live.

It is every man's obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life.

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

Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as this ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth. (said of Mahatma Gandhi)

It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life. All that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

If I could do it all again, I'd be a plumber.

The most important question a person can ask is, Is the Universe a friendly place?

Every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.

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