Top 1964 Quotes & Sayings by Albert Einstein - Page 7

It is better to believe than to disbelieve; in doing you bring everything to the realm of possibility.

The important things are always simple.

There's no question dolphins are smarter than humans as they play more.

Imagination is vastly more important than intelligence.

The most important thing is to not stop questioning.

Learning is experience. Everything else is just information.

I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.

artificial intellegance is no match for natural stupidity

Those who manage their way into a crisis are not necessarily the right people to manage their way out of a crisis

I like to experience the universe as one harmonious whole. Every cell has life. Matter, too, has life; it is energy solidified. Our bodies are like prisons, and I look forward to be free, but I don't speculate on what will happen to me. I live here now, and my responsibility is in this world now.

Life is a preparation for the future; and the best preparation for the future is to live as if there were none.

To obtain an assured favorable response from people, it is better to offer them something for their stomachs instead of their brains.

To be free means to be independent, not to be influenced by what others think and say.

It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

Those who have the privilege to know have the duty to act.

Highly developed spirits often encounter resistance from mediocre minds.

Everything you can imagine, nature has already created.

The truth of a theory can never be proven, for one never knows if future experience will contradict its conclusions.

One should respect an honest person even if he expresses opinions differing from one's own.

I'm not an atheist. I don't think I can call myself a pantheist. The problem involved is too vast for our limited minds. We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many languages. The child knows someone must have written those books.

I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil. My God created laws that take care of that. His universe is not ruled by wishful thinking, but by immutable laws.

I believe in intuitions and inspirations...I sometimes FEEL that I am right. I do not KNOW that I am.

Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn

Every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.

I admit that thoughts influence the body.

Our lives will be measured by what we do for others

God reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists.

If you have never failed, you have never tried anything new.

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life. All that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Truth is what stands the test of experience.

The tragedy of life is what dies in the hearts and souls of people while they live.

Genius abhors consensus because when consensus is reached, thinking stops. Stop nodding your head.

Paper is to write things down that we need to remember. Our brains are used to think.

Where there is love, there is no imposition.

If someone feels that he has never made a mistake in his life, it only means that he has never tried anything new in his life.

Imagination is the highest form of research.

Nothing happens until something moves.

One should never impose one's views on a problem; one should rather study it, and in time a solution will reveal itself.

The value of achievement lies in the achieving.

Not until the creation and maintenance of decent conditions of life for all men are recognized and accepted as a common obligation of all men and all countries — not until then shall we, with a certain degree of justification, be able to speak of mankind as civilized.

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

If you want to know the future, look at the past.

Peace comes through understanding

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift.

You can't solve your problems by using the same thinking that got you into those problems in the first place.

A man who is convinced of the truth of his religion is indeed never tolerant. At the least, he is to feel pity for the adherent of another religion but usually it does not stop there. The faithful adherent of a religion will try first of all to convince those that believe in another religion and usually he goes on to hatred if he is not successful. However, hatred then leads to persecution when the might of the majority is behind it.

The world is not threatened by evil people, but by those who allow evil to take place.

Even a fool is wise after an event.

There's a genius in all of us.

Education is not received. It is achieved.

I was originally supposed to become an engineer but the thought of having to expend my creative energy on things that make practical everyday life even more refined, with a loathsome capital gain as the goal, was unbearable to me.

If you want your children to be smart, tell them stories. If you want them to be really smart, tell them more stories. If you want your children to be brilliant, tell them even more stories.

Life isn't worth living, unless it is lived for someone else.

The only race I know is the human one.

When you examine the lives of the most influential people who have ever walked among us, you discover one thread that winds through them all. They have been aligned first with their spiritual nature and only then with their physical selves.

I am content in my later years. I have kept my good humor and take neither myself nor the next person seriously.

Real sign of intelligence isn't knoweldge, it's imagination

To act intelligently in human affairs is only possible if an attempt is made to understand the thoughts, motives, and apprehension of one's opponent so fully that one can see the world through their eyes.

If I had an hour to solve a problem I'd spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and 5 minutes thinking about solutions.

The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life.