Quotes from Albert Einstein

There is a driving force more powerful than steam, electricity and nuclear power: the will.

Raffiniert ist der Herr Gott, aber boshaft ist Er nicht.

Then I would have felt sorry for the dear lord, because the theory is correct.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

I take time to go for long walks on the beach so that I can listen to what is going on inside my head. If my work isn't going well, I lie down in the middle of a workday and gaze at the ceiling while I listen and visualize what goes on in my imagination.

Of all the communities available to us there is not one that I would devote myself to, except for the society of true searchers, which has very few living members at any time.

I am not one of these pessimists; I believe that better times are coming.

Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. - Albert Einstein (Something just for me to keep in mind)

That fellow Einstein suits his convenience. Every year he retracts what he wrote the year before.

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.

A calm and modest life brings more happiness than the pursuit of success combined with constant restlessness.

What's your next step, my friend? If you know, tell me quickly so that I may adopt your method with all speed.

we will hope that future historians will explain the morbid symptoms of present-day society as the childhood ailments of an aspiring humanity

I want to know God's thoughts. The rest are details.

The conviction that a law of necessity governs human activities introduces into our conception of man and life a mildness, a reverence and an excellence, such as would be unattainable without this conviction.

Question: What is a scientific author? Answer: A cross between a mimosa and a porcupine.

The example of great and pure characters is the only thing that can produce fine ideas and noble deeds. Money only appeals to selfishness and always tempts its owners irresistibly to abuse it. Can anyone imagine Moses, Jesus, or Gandhi armed with the money-bags of Carnegie?

The only rational way of educating is to be an example of what to avoid, if one can't be the other sort.

The principal art of the teacher is to awaken the joy in creation and knowledge.)

the only two things that are infinite are the universe and human stupidity.

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

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

Without creative, independently thinking and judging personalities the upward development of society is as unthinkable as the development of the individual personality without the nourishing soil of the community.

A man's value to the community depends primarily on how far his feelings, thoughts, and actions are directed towards promoting the good of his fellows.