Top 500 Albert Einstein Quotes (2025 Update)
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301. “Work is the only thing that gives substance to life.”

— Albert Einstein

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

— Albert Einstein

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

— Albert Einstein

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

— Albert Einstein

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

— Albert Einstein

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

— Albert Einstein

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

— Albert Einstein

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

— Albert Einstein

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

— Albert Einstein

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

— Albert Einstein

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

— Albert Einstein

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

— Albert Einstein

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

— Albert Einstein

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

— Albert Einstein

315. “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

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

— Albert Einstein

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

— Albert Einstein

318. “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

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

— Albert Einstein

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

— Albert Einstein

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

— Albert Einstein

322. “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

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

— Albert Einstein

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

— Albert Einstein

325. “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

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

— Albert Einstein

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

— Albert Einstein

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

— Albert Einstein

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

— Albert Einstein

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

— Albert Einstein

331. “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

332. “Curiosity is its own reason.”

— Albert Einstein

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

— Albert Einstein

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

— Albert Einstein

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

— Albert Einstein

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

— Albert Einstein

337. “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

338. “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

339. “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

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

— Albert Einstein

341. “The past is dead. The future is uncertain; the present is all you have. So eat, drink, and live merrily.”

— Albert Einstein

342. “Time is what the clock says.”

— Albert Einstein

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

— Albert Einstein

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

— Albert Einstein

345. “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

346. “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

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

— Albert Einstein

348. “Life is like a bicycle; keep moving on to maintain balance.”

— Albert Einstein

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

— Albert Einstein

350. “Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.”

— Albert Einstein