Quotes By Albert Einstein

The faster you go, the shorter you are.

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits.

I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.

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

The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.

True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.

There could be no fairer destiny for any physical theory than that it should point the way to a more comprehensive theory in which it lives on as a limiting case.

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.

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.

Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

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.

You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one.

I have just got a new theory of eternity.

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.