Albert Einstein
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!Collection: Patriotism
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.Collection: Hope
I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion.Collection: Religion
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.Collection: Truth
Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.Collection: Truth
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.Collection: Truth
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.Collection: Brainy
I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.Collection: War
Mozart's music is so pure and beautiful that I see it as a reflection of the inner beauty of the universe.Collection: Beauty
Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.Collection: Success
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.Collection: Experience
The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.Collection: Beauty
That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.Collection: Faith
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.Collection: Knowledge
The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.Collection: Health
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.Collection: Science
The environment is everything that isn't me.Collection: Environmental
Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.Collection: Death
I love to travel, but hate to arrive.Collection: Travel
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.Collection: Death
You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one.Collection: Great
Imagination is more important than knowledge.Collection: Knowledge
A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.Collection: Brainy
The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.Collection: Future
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.Collection: Future
The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.Collection: Future
Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.Collection: Beauty
It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.Collection: Fear
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.Collection: Imagination
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.Collection: Great
The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.Collection: Knowledge
The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.Collection: Wisdom
The only source of knowledge is experience.Collection: Experience
I want to go when I want. It is tasteless to prolong life artificially. I have done my share; it is time to go. I will do it elegantly.Collection: Time
An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.Collection: Good
In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.Collection: Truth
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.Collection: Education
The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.Collection: Knowledge
It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.Collection: Nature
He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.Collection: Good
I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.Collection: Peace
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.Collection: Wisdom
Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.Collection: Brainy
Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.Collection: Brainy
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.Collection: Love
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.Collection: Science
No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.Collection: Science
A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?Collection: Happiness
If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.Collection: Music
The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.Collection: Time