Albert Einstein
79 quotations
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
God always takes the simplest way.
I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.
It is only to the individual that a soul is given.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.
All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Technological progress is like an ax in the hands of a pathological criminal.
It is theory that decides what can be observed.
We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.
Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
The pioneers of a warless world are the young men and women who refuse military service.
How do I work? I grope.
To understand the world one must not be worrying about one's self.
The distinctions separating the social classes are false; in the last analysis they rest on force.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.
Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.