Albert Einstein
Where you see difficulty, I see opportunity.Collection: Inspirational
Those who have the privilege to know have the duty to act.Collection: Philosophy
Compound interest on debt was the banker's greatest invention, to capture, and enslave, a productive society.Collection: Bankers
Any fool can know. The point is to understand.Collection: Wisdom
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.Collection: Thinking
About God, I cannot accept any concept based on the authority of the Church... As long as I can remember. I have resented mass indoctrination. I cannot prove to you there is no personal God, but if I were to speak of him, I would be a liar. I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil. His universe is not ruled by wishful thinking, but by immutable lawsCollection: Liars
Women always worry about things that men forget; men always worry about things women remember.Collection: Men
To be free means to be independent, not to be influenced by what others think and say.Collection: Mean
Intelligence is not the ability to store information, but to know where to find it.Collection: Information
If I were to remain silent, I'd be guilty of complicity.Collection: Inspirational
If people are good because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.Collection: Im Sorry
Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition.Collection: Ambition
The family that prays together...is brainwashing their children.Collection: Atheist
The most valuable thing a teacher can impart to children is not knowledge and understanding per se but a longing for knowledge and understanding, and an appreciation for intellectual values, whether they be artistic, scientific, or moral. It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. Most teachers waste their time by asking questions that are intended to discover what a pupil does not know, whereas the true art of questioning is to discover what the pupil does know or is capable of knowing.Collection: Appreciation
Great spirits often meet violent oppisition with mediocre minds.Collection: Mind
The only sure way to avoid making mistakes is to have no new ideas.Collection: Inspirational
You never fail until you stop trying.Collection: Inspirational
Nothing causes more consternation in a group of hypocrits than one honest man.Collection: Men
I have only two rules which I regard as principles of conduct. The first is: Have no rules. The second is: Be independent of the opinion of others.Collection: Independent
In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not.Collection: Inspirational
Manager solves problems, leader prevents them.Collection: Leader
The main task of the spirit is to free man from his ego.Collection: Spiritual
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.Collection: Truth
During the youthful period of mankind's spiritual evolution human fantasy created gods in man's own image, who, by the operations of their will were supposed to determine, or at any rate to influence, the phenomenal world. Man sought to alter the disposition of these gods in his own favour by means of magic and prayer.Collection: Spiritual
The state exists for man, not man for the state. The same may be said of science. These are old phrases, coined by people who saw in human individuality the highest human value. I would hesitate to repeat them, were it not for the ever recurring danger that they may be forgotten, especially in these days of organization and stereotypes.Collection: Time
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.Collection: Inspirational
I find it difficult to believe that I belong to such an idiotic, rotten species - the species that actually boasts of its freedom of will, heroism on command, senseless violence, and all of the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism.Collection: Believe
It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For that he does not really need a college. He can learn them from books. The value of an education in a liberal arts college is not learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think something that cannot be learned from textbooks.Collection: Education
Small is the number of them that see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.Collection: Inspirational
Man is, at one and the same time, a solitary being and a social being. As a solitary being, he attempts to protect his own existence and that of those who are closest to him, to satisfy his personal desires, and to develop his innate abilities. As a social being, he seeks to gain the recognition and affection of his fellow human beings, to share in their pleasures, to comfort them in their sorrows, and to improve their conditions of life.Collection: Men
I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves - this critical basis I call the ideal of a pigsty. The ideals that have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. Without the sense of kinship with men of like mind, without the occupation with the objective world, the eternally unattainable in the field of art and scientific endeavors, life would have seemed empty to me. The trite objects of human efforts - possessions, outward success, luxury - have always seemed to me contemptible.Collection: Art
Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as hard duty. Never regard study as duty but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs.Collection: Inspirational
[Max Planck] was one of the finest people I have ever known... but he really didn't understand physics, [because] during the eclipse of 1919 he stayed up all night to see if it would confirm the bending of light by the gravitational field. If he had really understood [general relativity], he would have gone to bed the way I didCollection: Night
The single most important decision any of us will ever make is whether or not to believe the universe is friendly.Collection: Believe
If I were to start taking care of my grooming, I would no longer be my own self.Collection: Self
There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable. It would mean that the atom would have to be shattered at will.Collection: Mean
But the creative principle resides in mathematics. In a certain sense, therefore, I hold true that pure thought can grasp reality, as the ancients dreamed.Collection: Creativity
I like neither new clothes nor new kinds of food.Collection: Food
Long live impudence. It was my guardian angel in this world.Collection: Angel
The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science.Collection: Education
For me the Jewish religion like all other religions is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions.Collection: Atheist
Vegetarian food leaves a deep impression on our nature. If the whole world adopts vegetarianism, it can change the destiny of humankind.Collection: Destiny
In the beginning (if there was such a thing), God created Newton's laws of motion together with the necessary masses and forces. This is all; everything beyond this follows from the development of appropriate mathematical methods by means of deduction.Collection: God
What I'm really interested in is whether God could have made the world in a different way; that is, whether the necessity of logical simplicity leaves any freedom at all.Collection: God
The only justifiable purpose of political institutions is to ensure the unhindered development of the individual.Collection: Political
Nothing will end war unless the peoples themselves refuse to go to war.Collection: War
The leaves and the light are one.Collection: Light
Insofar as we may at all claim that slavery has been abolished today, we owe its abolition to the practical consequences of scienceCollection: Slavery
In my opinion there is no other salvation for civilization and even for the human race than the creation of a world government with security on the basis of law. As long as there are sovereign states with their separate armaments and armament secrets, new world wars cannot be avoided.Collection: War