Quotes By Albert Einstein

Work is the only thing that gives substance to life.

The only justifiable purpose of political institutions is to ensure the unhindered development of the individual.

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

Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.

A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.

Even on the most solemn occasions I got away without wearing socks and hid that lack of civilization in high boots.

A ship is always safe at the shore - but that is NOT what it is built for.

It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.

Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.

If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

Money only appeals to selfishness and always tempts its owners irresistibly to abuse it. Can anyone imagine Moses, Jesus, or Gandhi armed with the money-bags of Carnegie?

When the solution is simple, God is answering.

If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what then, is an empty desk?

Example isn't another way to teach, it is the only way to teach.

The person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.