“Everything that men do or think concerns the satisfaction of the needs they feel or the escape from pain.” - Religion and Science The second is: Be independent of the opinion of others.” - quoted in The 12 Powers of Man “I have only two rules which I regard as principles of conduct.
“Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.” - Quoted in Einstein Lived Here
“One may say ‘the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.’” - Physics and Reality “I take it to be true that pure thought can grasp the real, as the ancients had dreamed.” - On the Method of Theoretical Physics “Although I am a typical loner in daily life, my consciousness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has preserved me from feeling isolated.” - My Credo “I believe that whatever we do or live for has its causality it is good, however, that we cannot see through to it.” - Interview with Rabindranath Tagore “Everyone sits in the prison of his own ideas he must burst it open, and that in his youth, and so try to test his ideas on reality.” - Cosmic Religion: With Other Opinions and Aphorisms It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.” - Cosmic Religion: With Other Opinions and Aphorisms For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. Imagination is more important than knowledge. At times I feel certain I am right while not knowing the reason.
“Why does this magnificent applied science which saves work and makes life easier bring us so little happiness? The simple answer runs: Because we have not yet learned to make sensible use of it.” - Einstein Sees Lack in Applying Science
Einstein quotes about life free#
“Science can flourish only in an atmosphere of free speech.” - Dictatorship on Its Trial, by Eminent Leaders of Modern Thought It comes soon enough.” - quoted in The Encarta Book of Quotations To keep your balance you must keep moving.” - Letter to his son Eduard (5 February 1930), quoted in Einstein: His Life and Universe “Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem, in my opinion, to characterize our age.” - Out of My Later Years “Blind obedience to authority is the greatest enemy of truth.” - Letter to Jost Winteler (July 8th, 1901), quoted in The Private Lives of Albert Einstein “A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.” - Mes Projets d'Avenir I cannot tell if I would have done any creative work of importance in music, but I do know that I get most joy in life out of my violin.” - “What Life Means to Einstein” “If I was not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking, just as the man who spends too much time in the theater is tempted to be content with living vicariously instead of living his own life.” - " What Life Means to Einstein" “Much reading after a certain age diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. “I believe the main task of the spirit is to free man from his ego.” - Einstein and the Poet “If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects.” - Einstein: A Centenary Volume In addition to his scientific innovations, Albert Einstein often offered witty and wise insights on topics ranging from the meanings of life, the universe and people’s place in them to the inner workings of the mind and the relationship between science and religion.
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