Albert einstein quotes

There is no vaccine against stupidity.

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

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 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.

Don't wait for miracles, your whole life is a miracle.

Where you see difficulty, I see opportunity.

Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.

The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.

We can't solve today's problems with the mentality that created them.

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects.

Logic can take you from point A to point B. Imagination can take you wherever you want

The real problem is in the hearts and minds of men. It is not a problem of physics but of ethics. It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.

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

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

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

Experience is knowledge. All the rest is information.

There comes a point in your life when you need to stop reading other people's books and write your own.

What you can't imagine, you can't discover.

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

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

If you want different results, do not do the same things.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

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.

Failure is success in progress

Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder, to search for the truth. Have holy curiosity. Make your life worth living.

Be kind to people who are different from you.

Success comes from curiosity, concentration, perseverance and self criticism.

If you can't explain something simply, you don't know enough about it.

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

Nothing in the world makes people so afraid as the influence of independent-minded people.

Ninety nine failed solutions equals a gain of 99 pieces of information.

Thinking is hard work; that's why so few do it.

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

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

We cannot get to where we dream of being tomorrow unless we change our thinking today.

Mankind invented the atomic bomb, but no mouse would ever construct a mousetrap.

The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is arrogance

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

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

Any government is evil if it carries within it the tendency to deteriorate into Tyranny. The danger of such deterioration is more acute in a country in which the government has authority not only over the armed forces but also over every channel of education and information.

All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.

We are slowed down sound and light waves, a walking bundle of frequencies tuned into the cosmos. We are souls dressed up in sacred biochemical garments and our bodies are the instruments through which our souls play their music.

Everything that exists in your life, does so because of two things: something you did or something you didn't do.

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.

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

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

God reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists.

The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.

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.

Weak people revenge. Strong people forgive. Intelligent People Ignore.

The height of stupidity is most clearly demonstrated by the individual who ridicules something he knows nothing about.

The world we have created is a product of our thinking; it cannot be changed without changing our thinking. If we want to change the world we have to change our thinking...no problem can be solved from the same consciousness that created it. We must learn to see the world anew.

A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.

Information is not knowledge. The only source of knowledge is experience. You need experience to gain wisdom.

A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. 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 embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

Creativity is seeing what others see and thinking what no one else has ever thought.

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

Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.

Genius is making complex ideas simple, not making simple ideas complex

You can't use an old map to explore a new world.

Compound interest on debt was the banker's greatest invention, to capture, and enslave, a productive society.

Condemnation before investigation is the highest form of ignorance.

artificial intellegance is no match for natural stupidity

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

Knowledge and ego are directly related. the less knowledge, the greater the ego

Most people see what is, and never see what can be.

Be a voice not an echo.

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

God did not create evil. Just as darkness is the absence of light, evil is the absence of God.

We can understand almost anything, but we can't understand how we understand.

I once thought that if I could ask God one question, I would ask how the universe began, because once I knew that, all the rest is simply equations. But as I got older I became less concerned with how the universe began. Rather, I would want to know why he started the universe. For once I knew that answer, then I would know the purpose of my own life.

A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.

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

Cherish the questions, for the answers keep changing.

I always found I was in the best of company, alone.

Three great forces rule the world: stupidity, fear and greed.

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

The horizon of many people is a circle with a radius of zero. They call this their point of view.

Our lives will be measured by what we do for others

Women always worry about things that men forget; men always worry about things women remember.

I think 99 times and find nothing. I stop thinking, swim in the silence, and the truth comes to me.

Never underestimate your own ignorance.

Don't listen to the person who has the answers; listen to the person who has the questions.

The individual who has experienced solitude will not easily become a victim of mass suggestion.

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

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

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

Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.

The best design is the simplest one that works.

Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

Just because you believe in something does not mean that it is true.

The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.

The same thinking that has led you to where you are is not going to lead you to where you want to go.

The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.

If one day you have to choose between the world and love, remember this: If you choose the world you’ll be left without love, but if you choose love, with it you will conquer the world

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

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

In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not.

Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.

Experts are just trained dogs.

Compassionate people are geniuses in the art of living, more necessary to the dignity, security, and joy of humanity than the discoverers of knowledge.

I believe we are here to do good. It is the responsibility of every human being to aspire to do something worthwhile, to make the world a better place than the one we found.

Once you stop learning, you start dying

Creativity is intelligence having fun.

The main task of the spirit is to free man from his ego.

Everyone knew it was impossible, until a fool who didn't know came along and did it.

In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.

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

The more I study science, the more I believe in God.

Live life to the fullest. You have to color outside the lines once in a while if you want to make your life a masterpiece. Laugh some every day. Keep growing, keep dreaming, keep following your heart. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

Genius is 1% talent and 99% percent hard work.

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

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

Knowledge is realizing that the street is one way; wisdom is looking in both directions anyway.

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.

The only sure way to avoid making mistakes is to have no new ideas.

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

A problem defined, is a problem half solved.

Adversity introduces a man to himself.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Imagination is the language of the soul. Pay attention to your imagination and you will discover all you need to be fulfilled.

Earth is the insane asylum of the universe.