Top 500 Albert Einstein Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “My mind is my laboratory.”

— Albert Einstein

252. “Am I, or are the others, crazy?”

— Albert Einstein

253. “Never underestimate your own ignorance.”

— Albert Einstein

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

— Albert Einstein

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

— Albert Einstein

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

— Albert Einstein

257. “No worthy problem is ever solved within the plane of its original conception.”

— Albert Einstein

258. “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

259. “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

260. “Relativity applies to physics, not ethics.”

— Albert Einstein

261. “Never lose a holy curiosity.”

— Albert Einstein

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

— Albert Einstein

263. “Nationalism, in my opinion, is nothing more than an idealistic rationalization for militarism and aggression.”

— Albert Einstein

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

— Albert Einstein

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

— Albert Einstein

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

— Albert Einstein

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

— Albert Einstein

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

— Albert Einstein

269. “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

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

— Albert Einstein

271. “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

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

— Albert Einstein

273. “When a man is sufficiently motivated, discipline will take care of itself.”

— Albert Einstein

274. “The more I learn of physics, the more I am drawn to metaphysics.”

— Albert Einstein

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

— Albert Einstein

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

— Albert Einstein

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

— Albert Einstein

278. “The problems of today can only be solved at a higher level of thinking than that which created them.”

— Albert Einstein

279. “Politics is more difficult than physics.”

— Albert Einstein

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

— Albert Einstein

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

— Albert Einstein

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

— Albert Einstein

283. “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

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

— Albert Einstein

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

— Albert Einstein

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

— Albert Einstein

287. “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

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

— Albert Einstein

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

— Albert Einstein

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

— Albert Einstein

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

— Albert Einstein

292. “Why is it that no one understands me, and everybody likes me?”

— Albert Einstein

293. “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

294. “We are part of the whole which we call the universe, but it is an optical delusion of our mind that we think we are separate. This separateness is like a prison for us. Our job is to widen the circle of our compassion so we feel connected with all people and situations.”

— Albert Einstein

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

— Albert Einstein

296. “Work is the only thing that gives substance to life.”

— Albert Einstein

297. “The intuitive mind is a sacred gift.”

— Albert Einstein

298. “What I value in life is quality rather than quantity.”

— Albert Einstein

299. “Genius abhors consensus because when consensus is reached, thinking stops. Stop nodding your head.”

— Albert Einstein

300. “Experts are just trained dogs.”

— Albert Einstein