Quotes from Albert Einstein

Everything what's inspiring has been created by one who could work in freedom

Smoke like a chimney, work like a horse, eat without thinking, go for a walk only in really pleasant company.

How do I work? I grope.

People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.

The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest.

X + Y + Z X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.

My internal and external life depend so much on the work of others that I must make an extreme effort to give as much as I receive.

In music I do not look for logic. I am quite intuitive on the whole and know no theories. I never like a work if I cannot intuitively grasp its inner unity (architecture).

Intuitive powers played a central role in my scientific work, not wild speculation, yet a valued resource when no other approach was available.

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

If A equals success, then the formula is A = X + Y + Z. Where X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.?

"I never teach my pupils. I only attempt to provide the einsteinconditions in which they can learn."

"Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value."

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

I am thankful to all who said no to me. It is because of them that I'm doing it myself.

10. Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose we know not, though sometimes sense it. But we know from daily life that we exist for other people first of all for whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.

"You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat."

"The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking."

The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions.

I have reached an age where if someone tells me to wear socks, I dont have to

I came- though the child of entirely irreligious (Jewish) parents - to a deep religiousness, which, however, reached an abrupt end at the age of twelve.

Feeling and longing are the motive forces behind all human endeavor and human creations.