Top 500 Albert Einstein Quotes (2024 Update)
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351. “He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.”

— Albert Einstein

352. “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

353. “I’m not an atheist. I don’t think I can call myself a pantheist. The problem involved is too vast for our limited minds. We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many languages. The child knows someone must have written those books.”

— Albert Einstein

354. “What I see in Nature is a grand design that we can understand only imperfectly, one with which a responsible person must look at with humility.”

— Albert Einstein

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

— Albert Einstein

356. “Compound interest on debt was the banker’s greatest invention, to capture, and enslave, a productive society.”

— Albert Einstein

357. “You can’t blame gravity for falling in love.”

— Albert Einstein

358. “I want to know what God thinks. The rest are details.”

— Albert Einstein

359. “The religion of the future will be cosmic religion. It will transcend personal God and avoid dogma and theology.”

— Albert Einstein

360. “Our technology has surpassed our humanity.”

— Albert Einstein

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

— Albert Einstein

362. “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

363. “My only genius talent is inquisitiveness.”

— Albert Einstein

364. “The individual who has experienced solitude will not easily become a victim of mass suggestion.”

— Albert Einstein

365. “Art is the expression of the profoundest thoughts in the simplest way.”

— Albert Einstein

366. “Past is dead Future is uncertain; Present is all you have, So eat, drink and live merry.”

— Albert Einstein

367. “The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self.”

— Albert Einstein

368. “When I have one week to solve a seemingly impossible problem, I spend six days defining the problem. Then, the solution becomes obvious.”

— Albert Einstein

369. “The Universe is stranger than we imagine!”

— Albert Einstein

370. “A mathematical equation stands forever.”

— Albert Einstein

371. “The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.”

— Albert Einstein

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

— Albert Einstein

373. “Where there is love, there is no imposition.”

— Albert Einstein

374. “It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.”

— Albert Einstein

375. “So long as there are men, there will be wars.”

— Albert Einstein

376. “All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.”

— Albert Einstein

377. “The ancients knew something, which we seem to have forgotten.”

— Albert Einstein

378. “We will never be able to solve the problems of tomorrow with the thinking of today.”

— Albert Einstein

379. “I now see the necessity of a beginning.”

— Albert Einstein

380. “Indeed, it is not intellect, but intuition which advances humanity. Intuition tells man his purpose in this life.”

— Albert Einstein

381. “What you can’t imagine, you can’t discover.”

— Albert Einstein

382. “To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.”

— Albert Einstein

383. “Only a monomaniac gets anything done.”

— Albert Einstein

384. “Everyone sits in the prison of his own ideas; he must burst it open, and that in his youth, and so try to test his ideas on reality.”

— Albert Einstein

385. “The faster you go, the shorter you are.”

— Albert Einstein

386. “If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism.”

— Albert Einstein

387. “I am happy because I want nothing from anyone. I do not care for money. Decorations, titles or distinctions mean nothing to me. I do not crave praise. The only thing that gives me pleasure, apart from my work, my violin and my sailboat, is the appreciation of my fellow workers.”

— Albert Einstein

388. “Given the millions of billions of Earth-like planets, life elsewhere in the Universe without a doubt, does exist. In the vastness of the Universe we are not alone.”

— Albert Einstein

389. “All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.”

— Albert Einstein

390. “We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.”

— Albert Einstein

391. “Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute.”

— Albert Einstein

392. “It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.”

— Albert Einstein

393. “Bureaucracy is the death of all sound work.”

— Albert Einstein

394. “Every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.”

— Albert Einstein

395. “Reason is intuition’s servant.”

— Albert Einstein

396. “Bear in mind that the wonderful things you learn in your schools are the work of many generations. All this is put in your hands as your inheritance in order that you may receive it, honor it, add to it, and one day faithfully hand it on to your children.”

— Albert Einstein

397. “Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury – to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best for both the body and the mind.”

— Albert Einstein

398. “Morality is of the highest importance – but for us, not for God.”

— Albert Einstein

399. “Hunger, love, pain, fear are some of those inner forces which rule the individual’s instinct for self preservation.”

— Albert Einstein

400. “Nature hides her secrets because of her essential loftiness, but not by means of ruse.”

— Albert Einstein