Top 500 Albert Einstein Quotes (2023 Update)
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401. “New frameworks are like climbing a mountain – the larger view encompasses rather than rejects the more restricted view.”

— Albert Einstein

402. “We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.”

— Albert Einstein

403. “Fear or stupidity has always been the basis of most human actions.”

— Albert Einstein

404. “The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.”

— Albert Einstein

405. “One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike – and yet it is the most precious thing we have.”

— Albert Einstein

406. “It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.”

— Albert Einstein

407. “I admit that thoughts influence the body.”

— Albert Einstein

408. “Growth comes through analogy; through seeing how things connect, rather than only seeing how they might be different.”

— Albert Einstein

409. “Reason is intuition’s servant.”

— Albert Einstein

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

— Albert Einstein

411. “Even if you have to go through hell – go without hesitation.”

— Albert Einstein

412. “Don’t dream of being a good person, be a human being is valuable and gives value to life.”

— Albert Einstein

413. “When you examine the lives of the most influential people who have ever walked among us, you discover one thread that winds through them all. They have been aligned first with their spiritual nature and only then with their physical selves.”

— Albert Einstein

414. “Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else unless it is an enemy.”

— Albert Einstein

415. “I live my daydreams in music I see my life in terms of music. I get most joy in life out of music.”

— Albert Einstein

416. “What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can comprehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility. This is a genuinely religious feeling that has nothing to do with mysticism.”

— Albert Einstein

417. “To stimulate creativity one must develop childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition.”

— Albert Einstein

418. “One lives one’s life under constant tension, until it’s time to go for good.”

— Albert Einstein

419. “I learned many years ago never to waste time trying to convince my colleagues.”

— Albert Einstein

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

— Albert Einstein

421. “I have repeatedly said that in my opinion the idea of a personal God is a childlike one.”

— Albert Einstein

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

— Albert Einstein

423. “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

424. “If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare me a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German, and Germany will declare that I am a Jew.”

— Albert Einstein

425. “To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.”

— Albert Einstein

426. “Overpopulation in various countries has become a serious threat to the health of people and a grave obstacle to any attempt to organise peace on this planet.”

— Albert Einstein

427. “The world will not evolve past its current state of crisis by using the same thinking that created the situation.”

— Albert Einstein

428. “Games are the most elevated form of investigation.”

— Albert Einstein

429. “Gravity is a response to geometry.”

— Albert Einstein

430. “It may be possible to fight intolerance, stupidity, and fanaticism separately, but when they come together there is no hope.”

— Albert Einstein

431. “It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception.”

— Albert Einstein

432. “The economic anarchy of capitalist society as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evil.”

— Albert Einstein

433. “I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.”

— Albert Einstein

434. “Man owes his strength in the struggle for existence to the fact that he is a social animal.”

— Albert Einstein

435. “Anonymity is no excuse for stupidity.”

— Albert Einstein

436. “The only way to escape the corruptible effect of praise is to go on working.”

— Albert Einstein

437. “The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, an almost fanatical love of justice and the desire for personal independence – these are the features of the Jewish tradition which make me thank my stars that I belong to it.”

— Albert Einstein

438. “Jesus is too colossal for the pen of phrasemongers, however artful. No man can dispose of Christianity with a bon mot.”

— Albert Einstein

439. “Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.”

— Albert Einstein

440. “I asked myself childish questions and proceeded to answer them.”

— Albert Einstein

441. “Then there are the fanatical atheists whose intolerance is of the same kind as the intolerance of the religious fanatics and comes from the same source.”

— Albert Einstein

442. “It is every man’s obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it.”

— Albert Einstein

443. “God is subtle but he is not malicious.”

— Albert Einstein

444. “Imagination without knowledge may create beautiful things, knowledge without imagination can create only perfect ones.”

— Albert Einstein

445. “Before God we are all equally wise – and equally foolish.”

— Albert Einstein

446. “Don’t let the measurable drive out the relevant.”

— Albert Einstein

447. “If the bees disappear, man would have only four years of life left.”

— Albert Einstein

448. “Love brings much happiness, much more so than pining for someone brings pain.”

— Albert Einstein

449. “The greatest activity of which man is capable: Opening up yet another fragment of the frontier of beauty.”

— Albert Einstein

450. “I think that only daring speculation can lead us further and not accumulation of facts.”

— Albert Einstein