Top 500 Albert Einstein Quotes (2025 Update)
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301. “Genius abhors consensus because when consensus is reached, thinking stops. Stop nodding your head.”

— Albert Einstein

302. “Always do what’s right; this will gratify some and astonish the rest.”

— Albert Einstein

303. “Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.”

— Albert Einstein

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

— Albert Einstein

305. “A great thought begins by seeing something differently, with a shift of the mind’s eye.”

— Albert Einstein

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

— Albert Einstein

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

— Albert Einstein

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

— Albert Einstein

309. “A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.”

— Albert Einstein

310. “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

311. “Nuclear power is one hell of a way to boil water.”

— Albert Einstein

312. “However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.”

— Albert Einstein

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

— Albert Einstein

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

— Albert Einstein

315. “All conditions and all circumstances in our lives are a result of a certain level of thinking. If we want to change the conditions and circumstances, we have to change the level of thinking that is responsible for it.”

— Albert Einstein

316. “The Bible is a great source of wisdom and consolation and should be read frequently.”

— Albert Einstein

317. “Truth is what stands the test of experience.”

— Albert Einstein

318. “My sense of god is my sense of wonder about the universe.”

— Albert Einstein

319. “I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism, have brought me to my ideas.”

— Albert Einstein

320. “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

321. “There’s no question dolphins are smarter than humans as they play more.”

— Albert Einstein

322. “Problems cannot be solved by thinking within the framework in which the problems were created.”

— Albert Einstein

323. “God reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists.”

— Albert Einstein

324. “A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of others.”

— Albert Einstein

325. “Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder...”

— Albert Einstein

326. “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

327. “I like to think the moon is there even if I am not looking at it.”

— Albert Einstein

328. “We are all very ignorant. What happens is that not all ignore the same things.”

— Albert Einstein

329. “Matter is spirit reduced to point of visibility.”

— Albert Einstein

330. “Watch the stars, and from them learn.”

— Albert Einstein

331. “I am not a genius, I am just curious. I ask many questions. and when the answer is simple, then God is answering.”

— Albert Einstein

332. “Many of the things you can count, don’t count. Many of the things you can’t count, really count.”

— Albert Einstein

333. “The special theory of relativity owes its origins to Maxwell’s equations of the electromagnetic field.”

— Albert Einstein

334. “Nothing truly valuable can be achieved except by the unselfish cooperation of many individuals.”

— Albert Einstein

335. “A new idea comes suddenly and in a rather intuitive way, but intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience.”

— Albert Einstein

336. “Curiosity is its own reason.”

— Albert Einstein

337. “Marriage is but slavery made to appear civilized.”

— Albert Einstein

338. “For an idea that does not first seem insane, there is no hope.”

— Albert Einstein

339. “Hail to the man who went through life always helping others, knowing no fear, and to whom aggressiveness and resentment are alien. Such is the stuff of which the great moral leaders are made.”

— Albert Einstein

340. “A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it.”

— Albert Einstein

341. “Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.”

— Albert Einstein

342. “I want to go when I want. It is tasteless to prolong life artificially. I have done my share, it is time to go. I will do it elegantly.”

— Albert Einstein

343. “One should respect an honest person even if he expresses opinions differing from one’s own.”

— Albert Einstein

344. “Art is standing with one hand extended into the universe and one hand extended into the world, and letting ourselves be a conduit for passing energy.”

— Albert Einstein

345. “Understanding physics is child’s play when compared to understanding child’s play.”

— Albert Einstein

346. “Time is what the clock says.”

— Albert Einstein

347. “The environment is everything that isn’t me.”

— Albert Einstein

348. “If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, then man would have only four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man.”

— Albert Einstein

349. “You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.”

— Albert Einstein

350. “The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.”

— Albert Einstein