Top 500 Albert Einstein Quotes (2023 Update)
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251. “It takes a touch of genius-and a lot of Courage-to move in the opposite direction.”

— Albert Einstein

252. “What counts can’t always be counted; what can be counted doesn’t always count.”

— Albert Einstein

253. “Without changing our pattern of thought, we will not be able to solve the problems we created with our current patterns of thought.”

— Albert Einstein

254. “A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.”

— Albert Einstein

255. “You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.”

— Albert Einstein

256. “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.”

— Albert Einstein

257. “Never lose a holy curiosity.”

— Albert Einstein

258. “The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.”

— Albert Einstein

259. “Intelligence is not the ability to store information, but to know where to find it.”

— Albert Einstein

260. “Our separation from each other is an optical illusion.”

— Albert Einstein

261. “Never underestimate your own ignorance.”

— Albert Einstein

262. “The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.”

— Albert Einstein

263. “If one day you have to choose between the world and love, remember this: If you choose the world you’ll be left without love, but if you choose love, with it you will conquer the world.”

— Albert Einstein

264. “Most people stop looking when they find the proverbial needle in the haystack. I would continue looking to see if there were other needles.”

— Albert Einstein

265. “Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life.”

— Albert Einstein

266. “The greatest tragedy of human existence is the illusion of separateness.”

— Albert Einstein

267. “Necessity is the mother of all invention.”

— Albert Einstein

268. “Concerning matter, we have been all wrong. What we have called matter is energy, whose vibration has been so lowered as to be perceptible to the senses. There is no matter.”

— Albert Einstein

269. “You cannot prepare for war and peace at the same time.”

— Albert Einstein

270. “Physics is essentially an intuitive and concrete science. Mathematics is only a means for expressing the laws that govern phenomena.”

— Albert Einstein

271. “The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it.”

— Albert Einstein

272. “Why is it that no one understands me and everybody likes me.”

— Albert Einstein

273. “Knowledge is realizing that the street is one way; wisdom is looking in both directions anyway.”

— Albert Einstein

274. “I see a pattern, but my imagination cannot picture the maker of that pattern. I see a clock, but I cannot envision the clockmaker. The human mind is unable to conceive of the four dimensions, so how can it conceive of a God, before whom a thousand years and a thousand dimensions are as one?”

— Albert Einstein

275. “Rejoice with your family in the beautiful land of life.”

— Albert Einstein

276. “Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.”

— Albert Einstein

277. “If honey bees become extinct, human society will follow in four years.”

— Albert Einstein

278. “Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.”

— Albert Einstein

279. “The greatest scientists are artists as well.”

— Albert Einstein

280. “We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life. All that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.”

— Albert Einstein

281. “Women always worry about things that men forget; men always worry about things women remember.”

— Albert Einstein

282. “Most people see what is, and never see what can be.”

— Albert Einstein

283. “Earth is the insane asylum of the universe.”

— Albert Einstein

284. “It is better to believe than to disbelieve; in doing you bring everything to the realm of possibility.”

— Albert Einstein

285. “Our lives will be measured by what we do for others.”

— Albert Einstein

286. “The pursuit of knowledge is more valuable than its possession.”

— Albert Einstein

287. “What a sad era when it is easier to smash an atom than a prejudice.”

— Albert Einstein

288. “Life isn’t worth living, unless it is lived for someone else.”

— Albert Einstein

289. “Without “ethical culture”, there is no salvation for humanity.”

— Albert Einstein

290. “You cannot solve current problems with current thinking. Current problems are the result of current thinking.”

— Albert Einstein

291. “If I could do it all again, I’d be a plumber.”

— Albert Einstein

292. “Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.”

— Albert Einstein

293. “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.”

— Albert Einstein

294. “Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty; it stems rather from love and devotion towards men and towards objective things.”

— Albert Einstein

295. “Chess holds its master in its own bonds, shackling the mind and brain so that the inner freedom of the very strongest must suffer.”

— Albert Einstein

296. “There is only one road to human greatness: through the school of hard knocks.”

— Albert Einstein

297. “Astrology is a science in itself and contains an illuminating body of knowledge. It taught me many things and I am greatly indebted to it.”

— Albert Einstein

298. “Vegetarian food leaves a deep impression on our nature. If the whole world adopts vegetarianism, it can change the destiny of humankind.”

— Albert Einstein

299. “If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.”

— Albert Einstein

300. “Politics is more difficult than physics.”

— Albert Einstein