“The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.”
– Albert Einstein
“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”
– Albert Einstein
“I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.”
– Albert Einstein
“It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.”
– Albert Einstein
“I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.”
– Albert Einstein
“You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.”
– 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
“He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.”
– Albert Einstein
“The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.”
– Albert Einstein
“The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.”
– Albert Einstein
“Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.”
– Albert Einstein
“Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.”
– Albert Einstein
“In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.”
– Albert Einstein
“If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.”
– Albert Einstein
“Anyone who doesn’t take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.”
– Albert Einstein
“The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.”
– Albert Einstein
“I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.”
– Albert Einstein
“There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.”
– Albert Einstein
“Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.”
– Albert Einstein
“It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.”
– Albert Einstein
“Love is a better teacher than duty.”
– Albert Einstein
“It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.”
– Albert Einstein
“Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.”
– Albert Einstein
“Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
“One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.”
– Albert Einstein
“Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.”
– Albert Einstein
“All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.”
– Albert Einstein
“The man of science is a poor philosopher.”
– Albert Einstein
“It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man’s insecurity before himself and before nature.”
– Albert Einstein
“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.”
– Albert Einstein