Quotes












Albert Einstein 1879 - 1955











Here is my collection of Albert Einstein quotes. He was one of the greatest thinkers in history, and this is just a little bit of his knowledge. If you have any other quotes by him or any other people, feel free to email at kats6@hotmail.com them to me as I will be happy to include them in my main quotes section.


It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
- Albert Einstein

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
- Albert Einstein

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
- Albert Einstein

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
- Albert Einstein

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. - Albert Einstein

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
- Albert Einstein

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
- Albert Einstein

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.
- Albert Einstein

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

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
- Albert Einstein

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
- Albert Einstein

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.
- Albert Einstein

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
- Albert Einstein

Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the face of this earth.
- Albert Einstein

Not until we dare to regard ourselves as a nation, not until we respect ourselves, can we gain the esteem of others, or rather only then will it come of its own accord.
- Albert Einstein

A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space.
- Albert Einstein

He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to enhance all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
- Albert Einstein

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
- Albert Einstein

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
- Albert Einstein

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
- Albert Einstein

The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science.
- Albert Einstein

Imagination is more important than knowledge, for knowledge is limited while imagination embraces the entire world.
- Albert Einstein

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

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
- Albert Einstein

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
- Albert Einstein

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
- Albert Einstein

Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
- Albert Einstein

If I had only known. I would have become a locksmith.
- Albert Einstein

The important thing is not to stop questioning.
- Albert Einstein

In the middle of difficulity lies opportunity.
- Albert Einstein

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, but can only be attained through understanding.
- Albert Einstein