Quotes from Albert Einstein

Do not grow old, no matter how long you live. Never cease to stand like curious children before the Great Mystery into which we were born.

I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.

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.

Always do what's right; this will gratify some and astonish the rest

Older men start wars, but younger men fight them.

The release of atomic power has changed everything except our way of thinking ... the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker. (1945)

Adversity introduces a man to himself.

Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. How on earth can you explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love? Put your hand on a stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with that special girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.

It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception.

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

The bigotry of the nonbeliever is for me nearly as funny as the bigotry of the believer.

Truth is what stands the test of experience.

Those who have the privilege to know have the duty to act.

What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can comprehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility. This is a genuinely religious feeling that has nothing to do with mysticism.

It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

Pure mathematics is in its way the poetry of logical ideas.

The formulation of the problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill.

The most important decision we make is whether we believe we live in a friendly or hostile universe.

One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.

The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it Intuition or what you will, the solution comes to you and you don't know how or why.

Creating a new theory is not like destroying an old barn and erecting a skyscraper in its place. It is rather like climbing a mountain, gaining new and wider views, discovering unexpected connections between our starting points and its rich environment. But the point from which we started out still exists and can be seen, although it appears smaller and forms a tiny part of our broad view gained by the mastery of the obstacles on our adventurous way up.

On the occasion of Mahatma Gandhi's 70th birthday. Generations to come, it may well be, will scarce believe that such a man as this one ever in flesh and blood walked upon this Earth.

Weak people revenge. Strong people forgive. Intelligent people ignore.

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.