Top 500 Albert Einstein Quotes (2024 Update)
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401. “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

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

— Albert Einstein

403. “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

404. “After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved science and art tend to coalesce in aesthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are artists as well.”

— Albert Einstein

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

— Albert Einstein

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

— Albert Einstein

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

— Albert Einstein

408. “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

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

— Albert Einstein

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

— Albert Einstein

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

— Albert Einstein

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

— Albert Einstein

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

— Albert Einstein

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

— Albert Einstein

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

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

— Albert Einstein

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

— Albert Einstein

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

— Albert Einstein

420. “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

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

— Albert Einstein

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

— Albert Einstein

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

— Albert Einstein

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

— Albert Einstein

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

— Albert Einstein

426. “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

427. “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

428. “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

429. “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

430. “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

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

— Albert Einstein

432. “Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police.”

— Albert Einstein

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

— Albert Einstein

434. “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

435. “The equation for ego is: One over Knowledge.”

— Albert Einstein

436. “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

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

— 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. “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

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

— Albert Einstein

441. “Anonymity is no excuse for stupidity.”

— Albert Einstein

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

— Albert Einstein

443. “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

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

— Albert Einstein

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

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

— Albert Einstein

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

— Albert Einstein

450. “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