Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
- Albert Einstein
Learning, School, Learned, Education
I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.
- Albert Einstein
I Am, Curious, Special, Education
The only source of knowledge is experience.
- Albert Einstein
Knowledge, Only, Source, Experience
The environment is everything that isn't me.
- Albert Einstein
Me, Environment, Everything, Environmental
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
- Albert Einstein
Art, Experience, True Art, Source
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
- Albert Einstein
Important, Reason, Stop, Existing
The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
- Albert Einstein
Intelligence, Genius, Stupidity
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein
Science, Infinite, Sure, Stupidity
The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.
- Albert Einstein
Future, Save, Thus, Modes
The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
- Albert Einstein
Life, Mind, Monotony, Quiet Life
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
- Albert Einstein
Funny, Common, Prejudices, Collection
The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal.
- Albert Einstein
Been, Ever, Accompanied, Perdition
Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events.
- Albert Einstein
Today, Memory, Colored, Deceptive
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
- Albert Einstein
Good, Reward, Then, Punishment
Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
- Albert Einstein
Government, Mankind, Disease, Infantile
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.
- Albert Einstein
Peace, Will, Willing, Militant
You can't blame gravity for falling in love.
- Albert Einstein
Love, Falling, Gravity, Blame
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
- Albert Einstein
Truth, Elegance, Leave, Tailor
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.
- Albert Einstein
My Life, Think, I See, Physicist
To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
- Albert Einstein
Science, New, Possibilities, Raise
Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
- Albert Einstein
Education, Cease, Commence, Intellectual
Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.
- Albert Einstein
Deep, Daily Life, Other, Knows
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
- Albert Einstein
War, Will, Fought, III
Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
- Albert Einstein
Education, Lazy, Habits, Uses
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
- Albert Einstein
Simple, Made, Should, Simpler
Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.
- Albert Einstein
Knowledge, Door, Does, Directly
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.
- Albert Einstein
Intelligence, Mistake, Given, Joyfully
Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute.
- Albert Einstein
Pretty Girl, Pretty, Like, Hand
All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.
- Albert Einstein
Society, Development, Human Society
The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
- Albert Einstein
Positive, Gift, Meant, Absorb
As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
- Albert Einstein
Silent, Concerned, Vice, As Far As
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
- Albert Einstein
Wise, Equality, Before, Foolish
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
- Albert Einstein
Love, Falling, Responsible, Gravitation
Love is a better teacher than duty.
- Albert Einstein
Love, Teacher, Better, Love Is
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
- Albert Einstein
Hands, Like, Pathological
You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
- Albert Einstein
War, Prepare, Prevent, Simultaneously
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
- Albert Einstein
Which, Prejudices, Forming, Differ
I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.
- Albert Einstein
Imagination, Imagine, Frailty
Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature.
- Albert Einstein
Nature, Reach, Beyond, Occurrence
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
- Albert Einstein
World, Most, About, Comprehensible
Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.
- Albert Einstein
Everyone, May, Fundamental, Comprehensible
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.
- Albert Einstein
Soul, Devil, Penalty, All Things
Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.
- Albert Einstein
Respect, Individual, Should, Respected
Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.
- Albert Einstein
Respect, Man, Individual, Respected
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.
- Albert Einstein
Trust, Small, Important, Careless
All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.
- Albert Einstein
Religions, Same, Sciences, Branches
I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
- Albert Einstein
Maturity, Painful, Which, Solitude
Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.
- Albert Einstein
Young, More, Mature, Solitude
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.
- Albert Einstein
Art, I Am, Artist, Freely
Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
- Albert Einstein
Anger, Only, Dwells, Fools
Force always attracts men of low morality.
- Albert Einstein
Power, Always, Low, Attracts
I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.
- Albert Einstein
Away, Go Away, Weeks, Confusion
Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.
- Albert Einstein
Means, Characterize, Confusion
Mozart's music is so pure and beautiful that I see it as a reflection of the inner beauty of the universe.
- Albert Einstein
Beautiful, Music, See, Mozart
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
- Albert Einstein
Mathematics, Laws, Far, Refer
The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
- Albert Einstein
Beauty, Activity, Which, Permitted
We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.
- Albert Einstein
New, Mankind, Survive, To Survive
When the solution is simple, God is answering.
- Albert Einstein
God, Simple, Solution, Answering
All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.
- Albert Einstein
Words, Springs, Easily, Primary
True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.
- Albert Einstein
Art, Characterized, True Art, Creative Artist
Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?
- Albert Einstein
Only, Books, Fellow, Unpopular
When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.
- Albert Einstein
Funny, Like, Red-Hot, Relativity
Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.
- Albert Einstein
God, Coincidence, Way, Anonymous
Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.
- Albert Einstein
Government, Which, Enforced, Passing
A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?
- Albert Einstein
Happiness, Violin, Need, Table
That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.
- Albert Einstein
Faith, Deep, Which, Forms
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
- Albert Einstein
Nature, Still, One Percent, Revealed
It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.
- Albert Einstein
Me, Pleasure, See, Great Pleasure
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
- Albert Einstein
Science, Nothing, More, Everyday
People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.
- Albert Einstein
Love, Activity, Sees, Wood
We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.
- Albert Einstein
Human Beings, We Cannot, Despair
A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?
- Albert Einstein
Question, Sometimes, Drives, Hazy
The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
- Albert Einstein
Power, Only, Been, Combine
No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.
- Albert Einstein
Problem, Consciousness, Same, Same Level
In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself.
- Albert Einstein
Flock, Member, Immaculate, Sheep
Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.
- Albert Einstein
Brainy, Go, Once, Limits
There could be no fairer destiny for any physical theory than that it should point the way to a more comprehensive theory in which it lives on as a limiting case.
- Albert Einstein
Destiny, Which, Lives, Limiting
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.
- Albert Einstein
Want, Will, Go, Artificially
The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.
- Albert Einstein
Money, Income, Hardest Thing, Income Tax
I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.
- Albert Einstein
Best, Mind, Everyone, I Believe
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.
- Albert Einstein
Science, Mind, Everlasting, Human Mind
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
- Albert Einstein
Failure, Think, I Think, Ninety-Nine
Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.
- Albert Einstein
Fate, Always, Technical, Diagram
There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.
- Albert Einstein
Behind, Laws, Which, Order
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
- Albert Einstein
Understand, Well, Explain, Well Enough
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!
- Albert Einstein
Patriotism, Passionately, Heroism
The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
- Albert Einstein
Future, Past, Distinction, Between
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.
- Albert Einstein
Truth, Small, Treatment, Between
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
- Albert Einstein
War, New, Solving, Energy
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
- Albert Einstein
Humble, Mind, Slight, Frail
Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
- Albert Einstein
Sometimes, Nothing, Most, Pays
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.
- Albert Einstein
Future, Wiped, Two-Thirds, Atomic Bomb
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
- Albert Einstein
Same, We Cannot, Created, Problems
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
- Albert Einstein
Brainy, Just, Longer, Problems
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
- Albert Einstein
Kind, Same, Using, Problems
Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.
- Albert Einstein
Strength, Soul, Reason, Demands
Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.
- Albert Einstein
Never, Conscience, Even, Demands
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
- Albert Einstein
Worry, Still, Mine, Assure
Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.
- Albert Einstein
Imagination, Attractions, Preview
Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
- Albert Einstein
Truth, Small, Large, Trusted
Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.
- Albert Einstein
Pretty Girl, Pretty, While, Kissing
He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
- Albert Einstein
Good, Eyes, Dead, Awe
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.
- Albert Einstein
Nature, Living, Embrace, Living Creatures
It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
- Albert Einstein
War, Nothing, Act, Cloak
The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.
- Albert Einstein
Process, Discovery, Flight, Wonder
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
- Albert Einstein
Wisdom, Reality, Very, Persistent
Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
- Albert Einstein
Cruel, Look, Many, Dollar
Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.
- Albert Einstein
Own, See, Few, Hearts
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
- Albert Einstein
Education, The Only Thing, Interferes
I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.
- Albert Einstein
Evil, Believe, Theology, Rewards
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
- Albert Einstein
Death, Someone, Most, Accident
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
- Albert Einstein
Great, Minds, Always, Encountered
There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.
- Albert Einstein
Knowledge, Mind, Plane, Higher Plane
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
- Albert Einstein
Science, Living, Does, Wonderful Thing
Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.
- Albert Einstein
Politics, Eternity, Equation, Present
One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.
- Albert Einstein
Some, Communist, East, Inspires
God may be subtle, but he isn't plain mean.
- Albert Einstein
Mean, Subtle, May, Plain
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
- Albert Einstein
Education, Lazy, Habits, Uses
Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
- Albert Einstein
Will, Find, Human Beings, Beings
I very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express it in words afterwards.
- Albert Einstein
Think, Very, Afterwards, Rarely
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.
- Albert Einstein
People, Dangerous, About, Evil
It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.
- Albert Einstein
Laws, Explain, Should, Physics
True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.
- Albert Einstein
Religion, Soul, Living, Righteousness
Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.
- Albert Einstein
Mathematics, Ideas, Pure, Logical
The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.
- Albert Einstein
Able, Should, Receive, Gives
We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
- Albert Einstein
Intelligence, Muscles, Take, Care
To the Master's honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton's ground.
- Albert Einstein
Honor, Sound, Turn, Tracing
No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.
- Albert Einstein
Science, Single, Ever, Wrong
Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.
- Albert Einstein
Science, Most, Which, Wrong
I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.
- Albert Einstein
God, Thoughts, Rest, Details
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
- Albert Einstein
Imagination, Will, Take, Logic
Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
- Albert Einstein
Success, Try, Rather, Become
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.
- Albert Einstein
Balance, Bicycle, Like, Moving
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.
- Albert Einstein
Behind, Immortality, Concern
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
- Albert Einstein
Real, Only, Thing, Valuable
A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.
- Albert Einstein
Man, Brainy, Should, Thinks
You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.
- Albert Einstein
Problem, Never, Which, Solve
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
- Albert Einstein
Brainy, Himself, Set, Laughter
You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one.
- Albert Einstein
Ideas, Had, Great Ideas, Notebook
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
- Albert Einstein
Art, Teacher, Expression, Awaken
Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.
- Albert Einstein
Peace, Only, Cannot, Force
An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.
- Albert Einstein
Political, Stomach, Adviser, Empty Stomach
If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
- Albert Einstein
Learning, Doing, Would, Research
God always takes the simplest way.
- Albert Einstein
Faith, Always, Simplest, Takes
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
- Albert Einstein
Hope, Learn, Important Thing, Questioning
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
- Albert Einstein
Education, Curiosity, Formal
Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.
- Albert Einstein
Religion, Morality, Highest
One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
- Albert Einstein
World, May, Eternal, Mystery
It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein
Experience, Even, Mixed, Mystery
I have just got a new theory of eternity.
- Albert Einstein
Time, New, Eternity, Theory
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
- Albert Einstein
Science, Religion, Blind, Lame
Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.
- Albert Einstein
Intelligence, Gift, Most, Looking
It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.
- Albert Einstein
Alone, Known, Universally, Strange
I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion.
- Albert Einstein
I Am, New, Religious, Deeply
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
- Albert Einstein
Life, Only, Worthwhile, Lived
God does not play dice.
- Albert Einstein
God, Play, Does, Dice
I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.
- Albert Einstein
World, Never, Plays, Dice
There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein
Nothing, Everything, Ways, Miracle
The faster you go, the shorter you are.
- Albert Einstein
You, Go, Faster
Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.
- Albert Einstein
Success, Value, Rather, Strive
Never lose a holy curiosity.
- Albert Einstein
Lose, Never, Holy, Curiosity
The man of science is a poor philosopher.
- Albert Einstein
Science, Man, Poor, Philosopher
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
- Albert Einstein
Nature, Deep, Better, Understand
Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.
- Albert Einstein
Small, Minds, Number, Eyes
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
- Albert Einstein
Attitude, Character, Becomes, Weakness
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
- Albert Einstein
Mistake, New, Never, Who
A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
- Albert Einstein
Mistake, New, Never, Who
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
- Albert Einstein
Future, Think, Never, Enough
The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.
- Albert Einstein
Destiny, High, Individual, Serve
It is only to the individual that a soul is given.
- Albert Einstein
Soul, Only, Given, Individual
The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
- Albert Einstein
Knowledge, Imagination, True, Sign
Information is not knowledge.
- Albert Einstein
Knowledge, Information
The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.
- Albert Einstein
Time, Reason, Once, Happen
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
- Albert Einstein
Wisdom, Important, More, Than
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