Quotes from Albert Einstein

Only six men in the world know about relativity. I am not one of them. When I ask them to explain, they confused me.

When a man is sufficiently motivated, discipline will take care of itself.

Hail to the man who went through life always helping others, knowing no fear, and to whom aggressiveness and resentment are alien. Such is the stuff of which the great moral leaders are made.

Man's will, sustained by an indominable conviction, is much more powerful than material forces that seem insurmountable.

A brave man, whose only fault was being a woman.

It is open to every man to choose the direction of his striving; and also every man may draw comfort from Lessing's fine saying, that the search for truth is more precious than its possession.

Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Do you remember how electrical currents and 'unseen waves' were laughed at? The knowledge about man is still in its infancy.

It would seem that men always need some idiotic fiction in the name of which they can hate one another. Once it was religion. Now it is the State.

The flag is a symbol of the fact that man is still a herd animal.

Show me a satisfied man, and I'll show you a failure.

All men are ignorant, just in different fields.

So I am living without fats, without meat, without fish, but am feeling quite well this way. It always seems to me that man was not born to be a carnivore.

Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; It is its own reward. Everything else is in god's hands. It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

I have lived to prove Thoreau's contention that a man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.

Nothing causes more consternation in a group of hypocrits than one honest man.

Jesus is too colossal for the pen of phrasemongers, however artful. No man can dispose of Christianity with a bon mot

Schools need not preach political doctrine to defend democracy. If they shape men capable of critical thought and trained in social attitudes, that is all that is necessary.

My political ideal is democracy. Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.

A man has to work so hard so that something of his personality stays alive. A tomcat has it so easy, he has only to spray and his presence is there for years on rainy days.

Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else unless it is an enemy.

Try first to be a man of value; success will follow.

Indeed, it is not intellect, but intuition which advances humanity. Intuition tells man his purpose in this life.

The more cruel the wrong that men commit against an individual or a people, the deeper their hatred and contempt for their victim.