Quotes from Albert Einstein

Don't dream of being a good person, be a human being is valuable and gives value to life.

God is clever, but not dishonest.

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 cannot help but be in awe when [one] contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality.

The most aggravating thing about the younger generation is that I no longer belong to it.

Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life.

Life is sacred, that is to say, it is the supreme value, to which all other values are subordinate.

Strenuous intellectual work and the study of God's Nature are the angels that will lead me through all the troubles of this life with consolation, strength, and uncompromising rigor.

I made one great mistake in my life-when I signed the letter to President Roosevelt recommending that atom bombs be made but there was some justification-the danger that the Germans would make them.

The ability to portray people in still life and in motion requires the highest measure of intuition and talent.

I am satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of life.

The aim (of education) must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals who, however, see in the service to the community their highest life problem.

Dancers are the athletes of God.

You have to color outside the lines once in a while if you want to make your life a masterpiece.

I didn't arrive at my understanding of the fundamental laws of the universe through my rational mind.

You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created. Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. A life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that we are here for the sake of each other.

There will come a point in everyone's life , however, where only intuition can make the leap ahead, without ever knowing precisely how. One can never know why but one must accept intuition as a fact.

My primary process of perceiving is muscular and visual.

The content of scientific theory itself offers no moral foundation for the personal conduct of life.

If I had it [life] to do all over again, I'd have been a plumber.

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

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.