Some of my favorite Einstein Quotes
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
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.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed."
"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. ... I get most joy in life out of music."
"The faster you go, the shorter you are."
"Nationalism is an infantile sickness. It is the measles of the human race."
"The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once."
"All our lauded technological progress -- our very civilization - is like the axe in the hand of the pathological criminal."
Most people say that is it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.
Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.
The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one.
"One should guard against inculcating a young man {or woman} with the idea that success is the aim of life, for a successful man normally receives from his peers an incomparibly greater portion than the services he has been able to render them. The value of a man resides in what he gives and not in what he is capable of receiving. The most important motive for study at school, at the university, and in life is the pleasure of working and thereby obtaining results which will serve the community. The most important task for our educators is to awaken and encourage these psychological forces in a young man {or woman}. Such a basis alone can lead to the joy of possessing one of the most precious assets in the world - knowledge or artistic skill."
The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
![:\](https://bluelight.org/xf/BL_Images/Orig_Emoji/wrygrin.gif "wry grin :\")
To which it has been answered, "Undoubtedly true, but while you were there, did you ever find a thought? 