Quotes from Albert Einstein

Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.

Failure is success in progress

The person who reads too much and uses his brain too little will fall into lazy habits of thinking..

I do not teach anyone I only provide the environment in which they can learn

I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference!

Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity. From discord find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

For an idea that does not first seem insane, there is no hope.

As the area of light expands, so does the perimeter of darkness.

I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism, have brought me to my ideas.

Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions.

The strength of the Constitution lies entirely in the determination of each citizen to defend it. Only if every single citizen feels duty bound to do his share in this defense are the constitutional rights secure.

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

I asked myself childish questions and proceeded to answer them.

The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.

In the view of such harmony in the cosmos which I, with my limited human mind, am able to recognize, there are yet people who says there is no God. But what makes me really angry is that they quote me for support of such views. (The Expanded Quotable Einstein, Princeton University, page 214)

A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

I think 99 times and find nothing. I stop thinking, swim in silence, and the truth comes to me.

The man with the greatest soul will always face the greatest war with the low minded person.

Curiosity is more important than knowledge.

I am a Jew, but I am enthralled by the luminous figure of the Nazarene….No one can read the Gospels without feeling the actual presence of Jesus.

The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the Prohibition law. For nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced

The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.

Something deeply hidden had to be behind things.

It is better to believe than to disbelieve; in doing you bring everything to the realm of possibility.