Albert Einstein Quotes - Page 2

Out of clutter, find simplicity.

Bureaucracy is the death of all sound work.

No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?

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

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.

We know from daily life that we exist for other people first of all, for whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom."

[Moral Decay (first published 1937)]

Dancers are the athletes of God.

Life isn't worth living, unless it is lived for someone else.

One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.

Something deeply hidden had to be behind things.

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

You never fail until you stop trying.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

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

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible.

Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.