The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide
your sources.
- Albert Einstein
The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the
rational mind is a faithful servant. We have
created a society that honors the servant and has
forgotten the gift.
- Albert Einstein
People like you and I, though mortal of course
like everyone else, do not grow old no matter how
long we live...[We] never cease to stand like
curious children before the great mystery into
which we were born.
- Albert Einstein
in a letter to Otto Juliusburger
The monotony and solitude of a quiet life
stimulates the creative mind.
- Albert Einstein
It has become appallingly obvious that our
technology has exceeded our humanity
- Albert Einstein
(03/14/1879-1955)
Everything that is really great and inspiring is
created by the individual who can labor in
freedom.
- Albert Einstein
(03/14/1879-1955)
We have to do the best we can. This is our sacred
human responsibility.
- Albert Einstein
I think and think for months and years,
ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The
hundredth time I am right.
- Albert Einstein
I cannot conceive of a personal God who would
directly influence the actions of individuals, or
would directly sit in judgment on creatures of his
own creation. I cannot do this in spite of the
fact that mechanistic causality has, to a certain
extent, been placed in doubt by modern science.
[He was speaking of Quantum Mechanics and the
breaking down of determinism.] My religiosity
consists in a humble admiration of the
infinitely superior spirit that reveals itself in
the little that we, with our weak and transitory
understanding, can comprehend of reality.
Morality is of the highest importance -- but for
us, not for God
- Albert Einstein
The Human Side, 1954
Teaching should be such that what is offered is
perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard
duty
- Albert Einstein
(03/14/1879-1955)
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling
in love.
- Albert Einstein
Once you can accept the universe as matter
expanding into nothing that is something, wearing
stripes with plaid comes easy.
- Albert Einstein
The pioneers of a warless world are the youth who
refuse military service.
- Albert Einstein
The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of
activity in which we are permitted to remain
children all our lives.
- Albert Einstein
Those instrumental goods which should serve to
maintain the life and health of all human beings
should be produced by the least possible labour of
all.
- Albert Einstein
(03/14/1879-1955)
The search for truth is more precious than its
possession
- Albert Einstein
(03/14/1879-1955)
Common sense is the collection of prejudices
acquired by age eighteen.
- Albert Einstein
(03/14/1879-1955)
The world is a dangerous place, not because of
those who do evil, but because of those who look
on and do nothing.
- Albert Einstein
I have no special talents. I am only passionately
curious.
- Albert Einstein
Example isn't another way to teach, it is the only
way to teach.
- Albert Einstein
With fame I become more and more stupid, which of
course is a very common phenomenon.
- Albert Einstein
I want to know God's thoughts...the rest are
details.
- Albert Einstein
Science without religion is lame, religion without
science is blind.
- Albert Einstein
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the
life-long attempt to acquire it.
- Albert Einstein
Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel
with their own hearts.
- Albert Einstein
Isn't it strange that I who have written only
unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?
- Albert Einstein
The value of a man resides in what he gives and
not in what he is capable receiving.
- Albert Einstein
The only reason for time is so that everything
doesn't happen at once
- Albert Einstein
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not
everything that counts can be counted.
- Albert Einstein