Albert Einstein Quotes

Anyone who doesn't take truth

seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

We still do not know

one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.

He who joyfully marches to music in rank

and file has already earned my contempt.

He has been given a large brain by mistake,

since for him the spinal cord would suffice.

Technological progress is like an axe

in the hands of a pathological criminal.

Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist.

They are wrong: it is character.

It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.

A table,

a chair,

a bowl of fruit and a violin;

what else does a man need to be happy?

I think and think for months and years.

Ninety nine times,

the conclusion is false.

The hundredth time I am right.

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and

the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.

I do not believe in immortality of the individual,

and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern

with no superhuman authority behind it.

Politics is for the present,

but an equation is for eternity.

Once we accept our limits,

we go beyond them.

We cannot despair of humanity,

since we ourselves are human beings.

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

I very rarely think in words at all.

A thought comes,

and I may try to express it in words afterwards.

The monotony and solitude of a quiet life

stimulates the creative mind.

Before God we are all equally wise

and equally foolish.

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.

Everyone should be respected as an individual,

but no one idolized.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe,

is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.