Quotes by Albert Einstein (Page 2)

The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it.

Taken on the whole, I would believe that Gandhi's views were the most enlightened of all the political men in our time. We should strive to do things in his spirit... not to use violence in fighting for our cause, but by non-participation in what we believe is evil.

Past thinking and methods did not prevent world wars. Future thinking must prevent wars.

So many people today - and even professional scientists - seem to me like someone who has seen thousands of trees but has never seen a forest.

Why is it nobody understands me and everybody likes me?

What humanity owes to personalities like Buddha, Moses, and Jesus ranks for me higher than all the achievements of the enquiring and constructive mind.
What these blessed men have given us we must guard and try to keep alive with all our strength if humanity is not to lose its dignity, the security of its existence, and its joy in living.

If A is success in life, then A=x+y+z. Work is x, play is y and z is keeping your mouth shut.

Subtle is the Lord, but malicious He is not.

A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.

I, at any rate, am convinced that He does not throw dice.

Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.

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

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparallel catastrophe.

We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is.

I do not know how the Third World War will be fought, but I can tell you what they will use in the Fourth - rocks!

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.

It is harder to crack a prejudice than an atom.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited.

If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk sign?