Quotes By Albert Einstein

When I read the Bhagavad-Gita and reflect about how God created this universe everything else seems so superfluous.

Paper is to write things down that we need to remember. Our brains are used to think.

If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism.

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again.

I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be.

I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.

I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.

Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity. From discord find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.

I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.

Never memorize something that you can look up.

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

The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.

Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.

It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.

One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

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