albert einstein quotes

Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.

-- Albert Einstein

Raffiniert ist der Herrgott aber boshaft ist er nicht.
-- Albert Einstein

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

When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute.
But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute -- and it's longer than any
hour. That's relativity.
-- Albert Einstein

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

The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably
by the Prohibition law. For nothing is more destructive of respect for
the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot
be enforced. It is an open secret that the dangerous increase of crime
in this country is closely connected with this.
-- Albert Einstein, "My First Impression of the U.S.A.", 1921

You will never amount to much.
-- Munich Schoolmaster, to Albert Einstein, age 10

The majority of the stupid is invincible and guaranteed for all time. The
terror of their tyranny, however, is alleviated by their lack of consistency.
-- Albert Einstein

A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education,
and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeeded be in a
poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward
after death.
Albert Einstein

"If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward,
then we are a sorry lot indeed."
-- Albert Einstein

The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
- Albert Einstein

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

-- Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein's last words will never be known. He spoke them in German, and the attending nurse did not speak German.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
It is the source of all art and science.

-- Albert Einstein, Contribution, Living Philosophies (1949)

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

"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

Imagination is more important than knowledge.
-- Albert Einstein

Mathematics deals exclusively with the relations of concepts
to each other without consideration of their relation to experience.
-- Albert Einstein

The only justification for our concepts and systems of concepts is that they
serve to represent the complex of our experiences; beyond this they have
no legitimacy.
-- Albert Einstein