Quotes from Albert Einstein

I have always eaten animal flesh with a somewhat guilty conscience.

I like neither new clothes nor new kinds of food.

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

At least once a day, allow yourself the freedom to think and dream for yourself.

Curiosity is a delicate little plant that, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom.

Chess holds its master in its own bonds, shackling the mind and brain so that the inner freedom of the very strongest must suffer.

Inner freedom is an infrequent gift of nature and a worthy object for the individual.

As long as I have any choice in the matter, I shall live only in a country where civil liberty, tolerance and equality of all citizens before the law prevail.

Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.

The dog is very smart. He feels sorry for me because I receive so much mail; that's why he tries to bite the mailman.

The bigotry of the nonbeliever is for me nearly as funny as the bigotry of the believer.

Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder. To search for the truth.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

Hunger, love, pain, fear are some of those inner forces which rule the individual's instinct for self preservation.

Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.

My feeling is religious insofar as I am imbued with the consciousness of the insufficiency of the human mind to understand more deeply the harmony of the Universe which we try to formulate as "laws of nature

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike - and yet it is the most precious thing we have

Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty.

Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.