Quotes by Albert Einstein

I dont 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.

In the view of such harmony in the cosmos which I, with my limited human mind, am able to recognize, there are yet people who says there is no God. But what makes me really angry is that they quote me for support of such views. (The Expanded Quotable Einstein, Princeton University, page 214)

Common to all these types is the anthropomorphic character of their conception of God. In general, only individuals of exceptional endowments, and exceptionally high-minded communities, rise to any considerable extent above this level. But there is a third stage of religious experience which belongs to all of them, even though it is rarely found in a pure form: I shall call it cosmic religious feeling. It is very difficult to elucidate this feeling to anyone who is entirely without it, especially as there is no anthropomorphic conception of God corresponding to it.

Any fool can know. The point is to understand.

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

It is not that Im so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.

The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

If one tries to navigate unknown waters one runs the risk of shipwreck

Strange is our situation here on Earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that man is here for the sake of other men - above all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.

Man is here for the sake of other men - above all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.

If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.

From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that we are here for the sake of each other - above all for those upon whose smile and well-being our own happiness depends, and also for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected by a bond of sympathy. Many times a day I realize how much my own outer and inner life is built upon the labors of my fellow men, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received.

In scientific thinking are always present elements of poetry. Science and music requires a thought homogeneous.

I believe in intuitions and inspirations...I sometimes FEEL that I am right. I do not KNOW that I am.

Imagination is the highest form of research.

Phantasie ist wichtiger als Wissen, denn Wissen ist begrenzt.

The principal art of the teacher is to awaken the joy in creation and knowledge.

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

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