Albert Einstein Quotes - Page 3

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

God is subtle but he is not malicious.

Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect, as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.

Small is the number of them that see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception.

Although I am a typical loner in my daily life, my awareness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has prevented me from feelings of isolation.

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.

I believe that Gandhi’s views were the most enlightened of all the political men in our time. We should strive to do things in his spirit: not to use violence in fighting for our cause, but by non-participation in anything you believe is evil.

The right to search for the truth implies also a duty; one must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be the truth.

True human progress is based less on the inventive mind than on the conscience of such men as Brandeis.
~ Albert Einstein

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious - the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.

The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!

If tomorrow were never to come, it would not be worth living today.

I would not think that philosophy and reason themselves will be man's guide in the foreseeable future; however, they will remain the most beautiful sanctuary they have always been for the select few.

Any fool can know. The point is to understand.

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.