If one studies too zealously, one easily loses his pants.

Enjoying the joys of others and suffering with them – these are the best guides for man

Though love repine, and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply, – Truth is what stands the test of experience

The discovery of nuclear chain reactions need not bring about the destruction of mankind any more than did the discovery of matches. We only must do everything in our power to safeguard against its abuse....

To know what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty… this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness.

I have little patience with scientists who take a board of wood, look for its thinnest part, and drill a great number of holes where drilling is easy.

We must be prepared to make heroic sacrifices for the cause of peace that we make ungrudgingly for the cause of war. There is no task that is more important or closer to my heart.

Remember your humanity and forget the rest.

All our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike-and yet it is the most precious thing we have.

Lasting harmony with a woman (was) an undertaking in which I twice failed rather disgracefully.

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves – such an ethical basis I call more proper for a herd of swine. The ideals which have lighted me on my way...

We know from daily life that we exist for other people first of all, for whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.

Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible.

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.

Imagination is the highest form of research.

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

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...

The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. It should transcend a personal God and avoid dogmas and theology. Covering both the natural and the spiritual, it should be based on a religious...

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world

You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.

I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thoughts; the rest are...

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 is a liberal...

True religion is real living; living with all one’s soul, with all one’s goodness and righteousness.

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.

Hunger, love, pain, fear are some of those inner forces which rule the individual’s instinct for self preservation.

God is subtle, but he is not malicious.

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.

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. THAT’S relativity.

Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.

Brilliant spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.

Work is 1% inspiration plus 99% transpiration

The significant problems we face today cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.

The release of atomic power has changed everything except our way of thinking … the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a...

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to...

I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor...

If I had known they were going to do this, I would have become a shoemaker.

There is no great discoveries and advances, as long as there is an unhappy child on earth. / Ne možemo govoriti o napretku čovječanstva, dok na svijetu ima nesretne djece.

Through the reading of popular scientific books I soon reached the conviction that much in the stories of the Bible could not be true. The consequence was a positively fanatic orgy of freethinking coupled with...

Success = 1 part work + 1 part play + 1 part keep your mouth shut

The only mistake in life is the lesson not learned.

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...

The world needs heroes and it’s better they be harmless men like me than villains like Hitler.

The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and...

These thoughts did not come in any verbal formulation. I rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express it in words afterward.

Here I am, just an actress with nothing to say and crowds of people turn up to see me. Yet here is Einstein and the only person who turns up for him is myself.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.