Top 500 Albert Einstein Quotes (2025 Update)
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401. “Games are the most elevated form of investigation.”

— Albert Einstein

402. “The only way to escape the personal corruption of praise is to go on working. One is tempted to stop and listen to it. The only thing is to turn away and go on working. Work. There is nothing else.”

— Albert Einstein

403. “The development of general ability for independent thinking and judgment should always be placed foremost, not the acquisition of special knowledge.”

— Albert Einstein

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

— Albert Einstein

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

— Albert Einstein

406. “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

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

— Albert Einstein

408. “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

409. “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

410. “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

411. “Stupidity is a personal achievement which transcends national boundaries.”

— Albert Einstein

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

— Albert Einstein

413. “Dostoevsky gives me more than any scientist, more than Gauss.”

— Albert Einstein

414. “I have made the Bhagwad Gita as the main source of my inspiration and guide for the purpose of scientific investigations and formation of my theories.”

— Albert Einstein

415. “The field is the sole influence of the particle.”

— Albert Einstein

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

— Albert Einstein

417. “Pure logical thinking cannot yield us any knowledge of the empirical world. All knowledge of reality starts from experience and ends in it.”

— Albert Einstein

418. “New frameworks are like climbing a mountain – the larger view encompasses rather than rejects the more restricted view.”

— Albert Einstein

419. “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

420. “Combinatory play seems to be the essential feature in productive thought.”

— Albert Einstein

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

— Albert Einstein

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

— Albert Einstein

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

— Albert Einstein

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

— Albert Einstein

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

— Albert Einstein

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

— Albert Einstein

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

— Albert Einstein

428. “I don’t try to imagine a personal God; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.”

— Albert Einstein

429. “There is no place in this new kind of physics both for the field and matter, for the field is the only reality.”

— Albert Einstein

430. “The truth isn’t always a blinding light. Sometimes it’s a deep and dazzling darkness, that illuminates – and burns – just as surely.”

— Albert Einstein

431. “The wing structure of the hornet, in relation to its weight, is not suitable for flight, but he does not know this and flies anyway.”

— Albert Einstein

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

— Albert Einstein

433. “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

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

— Albert Einstein

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

— Albert Einstein

436. “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

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. “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

439. “Anonymity is no excuse for stupidity.”

— Albert Einstein

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

— Albert Einstein

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

— Albert Einstein

442. “Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.”

— Albert Einstein

443. “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

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

— Albert Einstein

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

— Albert Einstein

446. “Women marry men hoping they will change. Men marry women hoping they will not.”

— Albert Einstein

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

— Albert Einstein

448. “One is born into a herd of buffaloes and must be glad if one is not trampled under foot before one’s time.”

— Albert Einstein

449. “As long as I have any choice in the matter, I shall live only in a country where civil liberty, tolerance and equality of all citizens before the law prevail.”

— Albert Einstein

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

— Albert Einstein