Top 1964 Quotes & Sayings by Albert Einstein - Page 8

I believe that we don't need to worry about what happens after this life, as long as we do our duty here-to love and to serve.

Example isn't another way to teach, it is the only way to teach.

We dance for laughter, we dance for tears, we dance for madness, we dance for fears, we dance for hopes, we dance for screams, we are the dancers, we create the dreams.

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. 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.

A man must learn to understand the motives of human beings, their illusions, and their sufferings.

I have yet to meet a single person from our culture, no matter what his or her educational background, IQ, and specific training, who had powerful transpersonal experiences and continues to subscribe to the materialistic monism of Western science.

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious. The important thing is to not stop questioning. Curiousity has its own reason for existing.

What a sad era when it is easier to smash an atom than a prejudice.

The one who walks alone, is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.

You have to color outside the lines once in a while if you want to make your life a masterpiece.

A true genius admits that he/she knows nothing.

We will never be able to solve the problems of tomorrow with the thinking of today

Striving for social justice is the most valuable thing to do in life.

All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Men should continue to fight, but they should fight for things worth while, not for imaginary geographical lines, racial prejudices and private greed draped in the color's of patriotism.

We should be on our guard not to overestimate science and scientific methods when it is a question of human problems, and we should not assume that experts are the only ones who have the right to express themselves on questions affecting the organization of society.

Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Although I am a typical loner in my daily life, my awareness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has prevented me from feelings of isolation.

Our separation from each other is an optical illusion.

There are times when one feels liberated from one’s limits and human imperfections. At such moments, we see ourselves there, in a little corner of our little planet, our eyes fixed in wonder on the cold and yet deep beauty of that which is eternal, that which is elusive. Life and death are fused together and there is no evolution, nor destination, there is only BEING.

Live your life... as though everything is a miracle.

The only justifiable purpose of political institutions is to ensure the unhindered development of the individual.

All that's different about me is that I still ask the questions most people stopped asking at age five.

The greater the doubt, the greater the awakening

The most precious things in life are not those you get for money.

A society's competitive advantage will come not from how well its schools teach the multiplication and periodic tables, but from how well they stimulate imagination and creativity.

Life is a great tapestry. The individual is only an insignificant thread in an immense and miraculous pattern.

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

Education is only a ladder to gather fruit from the tree of knowledge, not the fruit itself

The leader is one who, out of the clutter, brings simplicity... out of discord, harmony... and out of difficulty, opportunity.

A thought that sometimes makes me hazy: Am I - or are the others crazy?

Every one who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that a spirit is manifest in the laws of the Universe-a spirit vastly superior to that of man, and one in the face of which we with our modest powers must feel humble.

Racism is America's greatest disease, racism is a disease of the white man.

There two things that are infinite, human stupidity and the universe, I don't know about the universe

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

Strange is our situation here on Earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that man is here for the sake of other men - above all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.

The important thing is to never stop questioning. Never lose a holy curiosity.

That is the way to learn the most, that when you are doing something with such enjoyment that you don't notice that the time passes.

I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know God's thoughts, the rest are details.

Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us; our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life.

Art is standing with one hand extended into the universe and one hand extended into the world, and letting ourselves be a conduit for passing energy.

Somebody who only reads newspapers and at best books of contemporary authors looks to me like an extremely near-sighted person who scorns eyeglasses. He is completely dependent on the prejudices and fashions of his times, since he never gets to see or hear anything else.

I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the kind that we experience in ourselves. Neither can I nor would I want to conceive of an individual that survives his physical death; let feeble souls, from fear or absurd egoism, cherish such thoughts. I am satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of life and with the awareness and a glimpse of the marvelous structure of the existing world, together with the devoted striving to comprehend a portion, be it ever so tiny, of the Reason that manifests itself in nature.

The stupid are invincible.

The thing is, not to stop questioning.

The economic anarchy of capitalist society as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evil.

The true measure of a man is the degree to which he has managed to subjugate his ego.

Philosophy is empty if it isn't based on science. Science discovers, philosophy interprets.

Everything is energy and that’s all there is to it.

I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking

From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that we are here for the sake of each other - above all for those upon whose smile and well-being our own happiness depends, and also for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected by a bond of sympathy. Many times a day I realize how much my own outer and inner life is built upon the labors of my fellow men, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received.

Human beings can attain a worthy and harmonious life only if they are able to rid themselves, within the limits of human nature, of the striving for the wish fulfillment of material kinds. The goal is to raise the spiritual values of society.

Albert is a very poor student. He is mentally slow, unsociable and is always daydreaming. He is spoiling it for the rest of the class. It would be in the best interests of all if he were removed from school immediately.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.

If people would only talk about what they understood, Earth would be a very quiet place.

An expert is a person who has few new ideas; a beginner is a person with many.

I live my daydreams in music I see my life in terms of music. I get most joy in life out of music.

Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life.

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".

Creativity is contagious. Pass it on.