Albert Einstein
Our lives will be measured by what we do for othersCollection: Our Lives
The pursuit of knowledge is more valuable than its possession.Collection: Pursuit
The leader is one who, out of the clutter, brings simplicity... out of discord, harmony... and out of difficulty, opportunity.Collection: Opportunity
There comes a point in your life when you need to stop reading other people's books and write your own.Collection: Book
If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects.Collection: Inspirational
Man tries to make for himself in the fashion that suits him best a simplified and intelligible picture of the world; he then tries to some extent to substitute this cosmos of his for the world of experience, and thus to overcome it. This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the natural scientists do, each in his own fashion. Each makes this cosmos and its construction the pivot of his emotional life, in order to find in this way peace and security which he can not find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience.Collection: Life
I make it a rule not to clutter my mind with simple information that I can find in a book in five minutes.Collection: Book
Things you can get access to, you should never memorize.Collection: Should
Considered logically this concept is not identical with the totality of sense impressions referred to; but it is an arbitrary creation of the human (or animal) mind.Collection: Animal
One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.Collection: Inspirational
You are right in speaking of the moral foundations of science, but you cannot turn around and speak of the scientific foundations of morality.Collection: Foundation
The more one chases the quanta, the better they hide themselves.Collection: Quantum
Imagination is greater than knowledge.Collection: Imagination
Those instrumental goods which should serve to maintain the life and health of all human beings should be produced by the least possible labour of all.Collection: Wise
Organized people are just too lazy to go looking for what they want.Collection: People
There are two different conceptions about the nature of the universe: (1) the world as a unity dependent on humanity; (2) the world as a reality independent of the human factor.Collection: Independent
Intuitive powers played a central role in my scientific work, not wild speculation, yet a valued resource when no other approach was available.Collection: Roles
To dwell on the things that depress or anger us does not help in overcoming them. One must knock them down alone.Collection: Depressing
One scientific epoch ended and another began with James Clerk Maxwell.Collection: Clerks
I am doing just fine, considering that I have triumphantly survived Nazism and two wives.Collection: Two
Out of the multitude of our sense experiences we take, mentally and arbitrarily, certain repeatedly occurring complexes of sense impression (partly in conjunction with sense impressions which are interpreted as signs for sense experiences of others), and we attribute to them a meaning the meaning of the bodily object.Collection: Perception
An evening everyone agrees, is a lost evening.Collection: Evening
Qualities I sought in a scientific theory were naturalness, inner perfection and logical simplicity from an aesthetic approach.Collection: Perfection
You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war. The very prevention of war requires more faith, courage and resolution than are needed to prepare for war. We must all do our share, that we may be equal to the task of peace.Collection: War
My political ideal is democracy. Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.Collection: Self Esteem
How can he possibly be humble? He hasn't done anything yet.Collection: Humble
Chess holds its master in its own bonds, shackling the mind and brain so that the inner freedom of the very strongest must suffer.Collection: Brain
The equation for ego is: One over Knowledge.Collection: Funny
It is my fate to be considered an authority, since I spent my youth rebelling against it.Collection: Fate
[Mystery] is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.Collection: Art
We are part of the whole which we call the universe, but it is an optical delusion of our mind that we think we are separate. This separateness is like a prison for us. Our job is to widen the circle of our compassion so we feel connected with all people and situations.Collection: Jobs
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.Collection: Thinking
The stakes are immense, the task colossal, the time is short. But we may hope - we must hope - that man's own creation, man's own genius, will not destroy him.Collection: Failure
The led must not be compelled; they must be able to choose their own leader.Collection: Leadership
The true measure of a man is the degree to which he has managed to subjugate his ego.Collection: Men
When a man, after long years of searching, chances upon a thought which discloses something of the beauty of this mysterious universe, he should not therefore be personally celebrated. He is already sufficiently paid by his experience of seeking and finding.Collection: Men
The tragedy of life is what dies in the hearts and souls of people while they live.Collection: Life
Nothing happens until something moves. When something vibrates, the electrons of the entire universe resonate with it. Everything is connected.Collection: Moving
With me every peep becomes a trumpet solo.Collection: Trumpets
Life isn't worth living, unless it is lived for someone else.Collection: Inspirational
There's no question dolphins are smarter than humans as they play more.Collection: Play
When you won't be able to describe it simply just, you don't are aware of it well sufficient.Collection: Able
The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it Intuition or what you will, the solution comes to you and you don't know how or why.Collection: Science
What the individual can do is to give a fine example, and to have the courage to uphold ethical values .. in a society of cynics.Collection: Giving
It is every man's obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it.Collection: Motivational
It is better to believe than to disbelieve; in doing you bring everything to the realm of possibility.Collection: Life
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.Collection: Fear
With all my heart I believe that the world's present system of sovereign nations can only lead to barbarism, war and inhumanity, and that only world law can assure progress towards a civilized peaceful community.Collection: War
The more cruel the wrong that men commit against an individual or a people, the deeper their hatred and contempt for their victim.Collection: Men