Quotes by Albert Einstein

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"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction. "

"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."

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

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

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

"God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically."

"Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love."

"Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds."

"I never think of the future. It comes soon enough."

"I want to know God's thoughts; the rest are details."

"Imagination is more important than knowledge. "

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

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."

"Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind."

"Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing."

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

"The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility."

"The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax."

"The only real valuable thing is intuition."

"The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education."

"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."

"The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking."

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

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

"He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed."

"He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder. "

"Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism--how passionately I hate them! "

"I have never belonged wholeheartedly to country or State, to my circle of friends or even to my own family... Such isolation is sometimes bitter, but I do not regret being cut off from the understanding and sympathy of other men. I lose something by it, to be sure, but I am compensated for it in being rendered independent of the customs, opinions and prejudices of others, and am not tempted to rest my peace of mind upon such shifting foundations."

"Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character."