Top 500 Albert Einstein Quotes (2025 Update)
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451. “Don’t dream of being a good person, be a human being is valuable and gives value to life.”

— Albert Einstein

452. “If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals.”

— Albert Einstein

453. “Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police.”

— Albert Einstein

454. “If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.”

— Albert Einstein

455. “Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else unless it is an enemy.”

— Albert Einstein

456. “God gave me the stubbornness of a mule and a fairly keen scent.”

— Albert Einstein

457. “The facts, although interesting, are irrelevant.”

— Albert Einstein

458. “The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest.”

— Albert Einstein

459. “Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world.”

— Albert Einstein

460. “Man owes his strength in the struggle for existence to the fact that he is a social animal.”

— Albert Einstein

461. “God is clever, but not dishonest.”

— Albert Einstein

462. “Then there are the fanatical atheists whose intolerance is of the same kind as the intolerance of the religious fanatics and comes from the same source.”

— Albert Einstein

463. “God is subtle but he is not malicious.”

— Albert Einstein

464. “Overpopulation in various countries has become a serious threat to the health of people and a grave obstacle to any attempt to organise peace on this planet.”

— Albert Einstein

465. “I think that only daring speculation can lead us further and not accumulation of facts.”

— Albert Einstein

466. “One is born into a herd of buffaloes and must be glad if one is not trampled under foot before one’s time.”

— Albert Einstein

467. “Gravity is a response to geometry.”

— Albert Einstein

468. “Nature conceals her secrets because she is sublime, not because she is a trickster.”

— Albert Einstein

469. “I thought of that while riding my bicycle.”

— Albert Einstein

470. “One who scorns the power of intuition will never rise above the ranks of journeyman calculator.”

— Albert Einstein

471. “I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.”

— Albert Einstein

472. “Imagination without knowledge may create beautiful things, knowledge without imagination can create only perfect ones.”

— Albert Einstein

473. “It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.”

— Albert Einstein

474. “If the bees disappear, man would have only four years of life left.”

— Albert Einstein

475. “I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.”

— Albert Einstein

476. “The greatest activity of which man is capable: Opening up yet another fragment of the frontier of beauty.”

— Albert Einstein

477. “I would teach peace rather than war, love rather than hate.”

— Albert Einstein

478. “Galileo – the father of modern physics – indeed of modern science.”

— Albert Einstein

479. “Long hair minimizes the need for barbers; socks can be done without; one leather jacket solves the coat problem for many years; suspenders are superfluous.”

— Albert Einstein

480. “Joy and amazement of the beauty and grandeur of this world of which man can just form a faint notion...”

— Albert Einstein

481. “Smoke like a chimney, work like a horse, eat without thinking, go for a walk only in really pleasant company.”

— Albert Einstein

482. “A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory.”

— Albert Einstein

483. “From the viewpoint of a Jesuit priest I am, of course, and have always been an atheist.”

— Albert Einstein

484. “The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.”

— Albert Einstein

485. “If one tries to navigate unknown waters one runs the risk of shipwreck.”

— Albert Einstein

486. “The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.”

— Albert Einstein

487. “The strength of the Constitution lies entirely in the determination of each citizen to defend it. Only if every single citizen feels duty bound to do his share in this defense are the constitutional rights secure.”

— Albert Einstein

488. “The woman who follows the crowd will usually believe that I said this.”

— Albert Einstein

489. “I have little patience with scientists who take a board of wood, look for its thinnest part, and drill a great number of holes where drilling is easy.”

— Albert Einstein

490. “The conscientious objector is a revoultionary. On deciding to disobey the law he sacrifices his personal interests to the most important cause of working for the betterment of society.”

— Albert Einstein

491. “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.”

— Albert Einstein

492. “A country cannot simultaneously prepare and prevent war. I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. The distinctions separating the social classes are false; in the last analysis they rest on force.”

— Albert Einstein

493. “The supreme task of the physicist is to arrive at those universal elementary laws from which the cosmos can be built up by pure deduction. There is no logical path to these laws; only intuition, resting on sympathetic understanding of experience, can reach them.”

— Albert Einstein

494. “Nothing will end war unless the people refuse to go to war.”

— Albert Einstein

495. “One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.”

— Albert Einstein

496. “When a blind beetle crawls over the surface of the globe, he doesn’t realize that the track he has covered is curved. I was lucky enough to have spotted it.”

— Albert Einstein

497. “Everybody should be ashamed who uses the wonders of science and engineering without thinking and having mentally realized not more of it than a cow realizes of the botany of the plants which it eats with pleasure.”

— Albert Einstein

498. “I have come to know the mutability of all human relationships and have learned to insulate myself against both heat and cold so that a temperature balance is fairly well assured.”

— Albert Einstein

499. “Human beings, in their thinking, feeling and acting are not free agents but are as causally bound as the stars in their motion.”

— Albert Einstein

500. “Fortunate Newton, happy childhood of science. Nature to him was an open book. He stands before us strong, certain, and alone.”

— Albert Einstein