Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein (superpersonal" entity, in ways that he declared to be inspired by Baruch Spinoza's and Arthur Schopenhauer's ideas. He also asserted that the Jewish scriptures, Jesus, Gautama Buddha and other religious figures were important guides for the ethical advancement of humanity.

Found 216 thoughts of Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

No one but a theorist believes his theory; everyone puts faith in a laboratory result but the experimenter himself.

One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.

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.

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

Nothing in the world makes people so afraid as the influence of independent-minded people.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

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.

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It's the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and science. Whoever does not know it can no longer wander, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed.

Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events.

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 blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.

Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.

The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible.

I have just got a new theory of eternity.

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

Every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist