Albert Einstein quotes - page 30

Of what significance is one's existence, one is basically unaware. What does a fish know about the water in which he swims all his life The bitter and the sweet come from outside. The hard from within, from one's own efforts. For the most part I do what my own nature drives me to do. It is embarrassing to earn such respect and love for it. (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. View quote
Albert Einstein
It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I feel also not able to imagine some will or goal outside the human sphere. My views are near those of Spinoza: admiration for the beauty of and belief in the logical simplicity of the order which we can grasp humbly and only imperfectly. I believe that we have to content ourselves with our imperfect knowledge and understanding and treat values and moral obligations as a purely human problem-the most important of all human problems. View quote
Albert Einstein
As long as I have any choice, I will stay only in a country where political liberty, toleration, and equality of all citizens before the law arethe rule. View quote
Albert Einstein
I have no extraordinary ability. I'm simply an inquisitive individual. View quote
Albert Einstein
Hail to the man who went through life always helping others, knowing no fear, and to whom aggressiveness and resentment are alien. Such is the stuff of which the great moral leaders are made. View quote
Albert Einstein
Relativity applies to physics, not ethics. View quote
Albert Einstein
The legs are the wheels of creativity. View quote
Albert Einstein
You can never solve a problem with the same kind of thinking that created the problem in the first place. View quote
Albert Einstein
In the midst of every crisis, lies great opportunity. View quote
Albert Einstein
Stand still. The trees ahead and bush beside you are not lost. (Albert Einstein)
If one studies too zealously, one easily loses his pants. View quote
Albert Einstein
I am strongly drawn to the simple life and am often oppressed by the feeling that I am engrossing an unnecessary amount of the labour of my fellow men. I regard class differences as contrary to justice and, in the last resort, based on force. I also consider that plain living is good for everybody, physically and mentally. View quote
Albert Einstein
It is a magnificent feeling to recognize the unity of complex phenomena which appear to be things quite apart from the direct visible truth. View quote
Albert Einstein
My scientific work is motivated by an irresistible longing to understand the secrets of nature and by no other feeling. My love for justice and striving to contribute towards the improvement of human conditions are quite independent from my scientific interests. View quote
Albert Einstein
When the number of factors coming into play in a phenomenological complex is too large scientific method in most cases fails. One need only think of the weather, in which case the prediction even for a few days ahead is impossible. View quote
Albert Einstein
Common sense invents and constructs no less in its own field than science does in its domain. It is, however, in the [naive] nature of common sense not to be aware of this situation. View quote
Albert Einstein
If I had my life to live over again, I would elect to be a trader of goods rather than a student of science. I think barter is a noble thing. View quote
Albert Einstein
a brave man, whose only fault was being a woman. View quote
Albert Einstein
According to this conception, the sole function of education was to open the way to thinking and knowing, and the school, as the outstanding organ for the people's education, must serve that end exclusively. View quote
Albert Einstein
Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes - goodwill among men and peace on earth. (Albert Einstein)
Science is the attempt to make the chaotic diversity of our sense experience correspond to a logically uniform system of thought. View quote
Albert Einstein
A man's moral worth is not measured by what his religious beliefs are but rather by what emotional impulses he has received from Nature during his lifetime. View quote
Albert Einstein
A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind. View quote
Albert Einstein
We believe that an informed citizenry will act for life and not for death. View quote
Albert Einstein