Quotes from Albert Einstein

When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute, and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity.

E = MC^2: Energy equals mass times the speed of light squared.

A successful man is he who receives a great deal from his fellow men, usually incomparably more than corresponds to his service to them. The value of a man, however, should be seen in what he gives, and not in what he is able to receive.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age 18.

I think and think for months, for years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

If I had known they were going to do this, I would have become a shoemaker.

When the Special Theory of Relativity began to germinate in me, I was visited by all sorts of nervous conflicts... I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.

Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity, but don't rule out malice.

The concept of marriage must have been thought up by an unimaginative pig.

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.

Any fool can know. The point is to understand.

The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.

Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us; our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life.

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

Knowledge is realizing that the street is one way; wisdom is looking in both directions anyway.

Information is not knowledge. The only source of knowledge is experience. You need experience to gain wisdom.

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

I think that only daring speculation can lead us further and not accumulation of facts.

The important things are always simple.

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 knowledge.

I believe, indeed, that overemphasis on the purely intellectual attitude, often directed solely to the practical and factual, in our education, has led directly to the impairment of ethical values.

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

The Bible is a great source of wisdom and consolation and should be read frequently.