Quotes from Albert Einstein

If the majority knew if the root of this evil, then the road to its cure would not be long.

If the majority knew of the root of this evil, then the road to its cure would not be long.

no mouse would ever construct a mousetrap.

May the conscience and the common sense of the peoples be awakened, so that we may reach a new stage in the life of nations, where people will look back on war as an incomprehensible aberration of their forefathers!

In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.

It is abhorrent to me when a fine intelligence is paired with an unsavory character

Specialization in every sphere of intellectual work is producing an ever widening gulf between the intellectual worker and the non-specialist, which makes it more difficult for the life of the nation to be fertilized and enriched by the achievements of art and science.

The youth is poisoned by systematic lies.

I am firmly convinced that the passionate will for justice and truth has done more to improve man's condition than calculating political shrewdness which in the long run only breeds general distrust.

I am very conscious of the fact that our feelings and strivings are often contradictory and obscure and that they cannot be expressed in easy and simple formulas.

If you want to live a happy life tie it to goal. Not to people or things.

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe

In their struggle for the ethical good, teachers of religion must have the stature to give up the doctrine of a personal God, that is, give up that source of fear and hope which in the past placed such vast power in the hands of priests'.

We (Mr. Rosen and I) had sent you our manuscript for publication and had not authorized you to show it to specialists before it is printed. I see no reason to address the — in any case erroneous — comments of your anonymous expert.

Thus do we mortals achieve immortality in the permanent things which we create in common.

Those instrumental goods which should serve to maintain the life and health of all human beings should be produced by the least possible labor of all.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. ~ Albert Einstein

How can cosmic religious feeling be communicated from one person to another, if it can give rise to no definite notion of a God and no theology? In my view, it is the most important function of art and science to awaken this feeling and keep it alive in those who are receptive to it

Gustavo Solivellas dice: Hay una fuerza motriz más poderosa que el vapor, la electricidad y la energía atómica: la voluntad (Albert Einstein)

Um tirano vence por seu gênio, mas seu sucessor será sempre um rematado canalha. Por esta razão, luto sem tréguas e apaixonadamente contra os sistemas dessa natureza, contra a Itália fascista de hoje e contra a Rússia soviética de hoje. A atual democracia na Europa naufraga e culpamos por esse naufrágio o desaparecimento da ideologia republicana.

The second thing that strikes a visitor is the joyous, positive attitude to life. The smile on the faces of the people in photographs is symbolical of one of the greatest assets of the American. He is friendly, self-confident, optimistic—and without envy. The European finds intercourse with Americans easy and agreeable.

The state of mind which enables a man to do work of this kind is akin to that of the religious worshiper or the lover; the daily effort comes from no deliberate intention or program, but straight from the heart.

It is at last beginning to be realized that great wealth is not necessary for a happy and satisfactory life.

Der Hauptgrund für Stress ist der tägliche Kontakt mit Idioten.