Quotes from Albert Einstein

One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.

As a human being, one has been endowed with just enough intelligence to be able to see clearly how utterly inadequate that intelligence is when confronted with what exists.

There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.

Falling in love is not at all the most stupid thing that people do - but gravitation cannot be held responsible for it.

Turkish soldiers are very brave. They love their homeland and they do not hesitate to give their lives for it if necessary.

The faster you go, the shorter you are.

To get to know a country, you must have direct contact with the earth. It's futile to gaze at the world through a car window.

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.

The greater the doubt, the greater the awakening

Education is only a ladder to gather fruit from the tree of knowledge, not the fruit itself

I have not eaten enough of the tree of knowledge, though in my profession I am obligated to feed on it regularly.

Stand still. The trees ahead and bush beside you are not lost.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police.

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted in important affairs.

Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

The truth of a theory can never be proven, for one never knows if future experience will contradict its conclusions.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

Truth is what stands the test of experience.

The ideas that have lighted my way have been kindness, beauty and truth.

To the Master's honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton's ground.