Quotes from Albert Einstein

A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Rejoice with your family in the beautiful land of life.

People like you and me never grow old. We never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we were born.

I am thankful for all of those who said NO to me. It's because of them I'm doing it myself.

If someone can enjoy marching to music in rank and file, I can feel only contempt for him; he has received his large brain by mistake, a spinal cord would have been enough.

Children don't heed the life experiences of their parents, and nations ignore history. Bad lessons always have to be learned anew.

If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.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 thinking

Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.

Peace is not merely the absence of war but the presence of justice, of law, of order —in short, of government.

What is the meaning of human life, or, for that matter, of the life of any creature? To know the answer to this question means to be religious. You ask: Does it make any sense, then, to pose this question? I answer: The man who regards his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unhappy but hardly fit for life.

It is important to foster individuality, for only the individual can produce the new ideas.

The right to search for the truth implies also a duty; one must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be the truth.

So long as there are men, there will be wars.

The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and science. He who knows it not and can no longer wonder, no longer feel amazement, is as good as dead, a snuffed-out candle.

When the number of factors coming into play in a phenomenological complex is too large scientific method in most cases fails. One need only think of the weather, in which case the prediction even for a few days ahead is impossible.

Keep fighting until the last buzzer sounds.

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

I do not believe in the immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern without any superhuman authority behind it.

I want to go when I want. It is tasteless to prolong life artificially. I have done my share, it is time to go. I will do it elegantly.

One should not pursue goals that are easily achieved. One must develop an instinct for what one can just barely achieve through one's greatest efforts.

Only the Catholic Church protested against the Hitlerian onslaught on liberty. Up till then I had not been interested in the Church, but today I feel a great admiration for the Church, which alone has had the courage to struggle for spiritual truth and moral liberty

As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.

No one does anything right in life, until they realize that they are making a mistake

Learn from yesterday, live for today and hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.