Top 1964 Quotes & Sayings by Albert Einstein - Page 5

Hitler appeared, a man with limited intellectual abilities and unfit for any useful work, bursting with envy and bitterness against all whom circumstance and nature had favored over him....In his desperate ambition for power he discovered that his speeches, confused and pervaded with hate as they were, received wild acclaim by those whose situation and orientation resembled his own. He picked up this human flotsam on the streets and in the taverns and organized them around himself. This is the way he launched his political career.

If I had only one hour to save the world, I would spend fifty-five minutes defining the problem, and only five minutes finding the solution.

I don't need to know everything, I just need to know where to find it, when I need it

It may be possible to fight intolerance, stupidity, and fanaticism seperately, but when they come together there is no hope.

Don't listen to their words, fix your attention on their deeds.

Adversity introduces a man to himself.

If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.

When we first got married, we made a pact. It was this: In our life together, it was decided I would make all of the big decisions and my wife would make all of the little decisions. For fifty years, we have held true to that agreement. I believe that is the reason for the success in our marriage. However, the strange thing is that in fifty years, there hasn’t been one big decision.

Try not to become a man of success, but a man of value. Look around at how people want to get more out of life than they put in. A man of value will give more than he receives. Be creative, but make sure that what you create is not a curse for mankind.

I refuse to engage in an intellectual battle with an unarmed man.

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.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

The Press, which is mostly controlled by vested interests, has an excessive influence on public opinion.

There is a race between mankind and the universe. Mankind is trying to build bigger, better, faster, and more foolproof machines. The universe is trying to build bigger, better, and faster fools. So far the universe is winning.

Live with purpose. Don't let people or things around you get you down.

Was wirklich zählt, ist Intuition

The only mistake in life is the lesson not learned.

There is a driving force more powerful than steam, electricity and nuclear power: the will.

The ideas that have lighted my way have been kindness, beauty and truth.

The mind that opens to a new idea never returns to its original size

If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut

Intelligence is not the ability to store information, but to know where to find it.

If you can't explain what you are doing to a nine-year-old, then either you still don't understand it very well, or it's not all that worthwile in the first place.

School failed me, and I failed the school. It bored me. The teachers behaved like Feldwebel (sergeants). I wanted to learn what I wanted to know, but they wanted me to learn for the exam. What I hated most was the competitive system there, and especially sports. Because of this, I wasn't worth anything, and several times they suggested I leave.

Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity. From discord find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

The state is made for man, not man for the state.... That is to say, the state should be our servant and not we its slaves

A large part of our attitude toward things is conditioned by opinions and emotions which we unconsciously absorb as children from our environment. In other words, it is tradition—besides inherited aptitudes and qualities—which makes us what we are. We but rarely reflect how relatively small as compared with the powerful influence of tradition is the influence of our conscious thought upon our conduct and convictions.

The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think

Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.

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

I am neither especially clever nor especially gifted. I am only very, very curious.

I am happy because I want nothing from anyone. I do not care for money. Decorations, titles or distinctions mean nothing to me. I do not crave praise. The only thing that gives me pleasure, apart from my work, my violin and my sailboat, is the appreciation of my fellow workers.

When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, it seems like two minutes; when you sit on a hot stove for two minutes, it seems like two hours. That's relativity.

When I have one week to solve a seemingly impossible problem, I spend six days defining the problem. Then, the solution becomes obvious.

The true definition of madness is repeating the same action, over and over, hoping for a different result.

The more I learn, the more I realize I don't know.

I came to America because of the great, great freedom which I heard existed in this country. I made a mistake in selecting America as a land of freedom, a mistake I cannot repair in the balance of my lifetime.

A great thought begins by seeing something differently, with a shift of the mind's eye.

Do not grow old, no matter how long you live. Never cease to stand like curious children before the Great Mystery into which we were born.

I have made the Bhagwad Gita as the main source of my inspiration and guide for the purpose of scientific investigations and formation of my theories.

Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it ... he who doesn't ... pays it.

Success = 1 part work + 1 part play + 1 part keep your mouth shut

Persistence is the most powerful force on earth, it can move mountains.

I said before, the most beautiful and most profound religious emotion that we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. And this mysticality is the power of all true science. If there is any such concept as a God, it is a subtle spirit, not an image of a man that so many have fixed in their minds. In essence, my religion consists of a humble admiration for this illimitable superior spirit that reveals itself in the slight details that we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds.

Energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be changed from one form to another.

The best design is the simplest one that works.

I'm more interested in the future than in the past, because the future is where I intend to live.

It is entirely possible that behind the perception of our senses, worlds are hidden of which we are unaware.

If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, then man would have only four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man.

Matter is spirit reduced to point of visibility.

I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be.

How many people are trapped in their everyday habits: part numb, part frightened, part indifferent? To have a better life we must keep choosing how we are living.

A ship is always safe at the shore - but that is NOT what it is built for.

All conditions and all circumstances in our lives are a result of a certain level of thinking. If we want to change the conditions and circumstances, we have to change the level of thinking that is responsible for it.

You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.

Time is not at all what it seems. It does not flow in only one direction, and the future exists simultaneously with the past.

A bartender is just a pharmacist with a limited inventory.

The minority, the ruling class at present, has the schools and press, usually the Church as well, under its thumb. This enables it to organize and sway the emotions of the masses, and make its tool of them.

Outer changes always begin with an inner change of attitude.

Student is not a container you have to fill but a torch you have to light up.