“For us (physicists) the distinction between past, present and future is only an illusion, albeit a stubborn one.” — Albert Einstein

“All means prove but blunt instruments, if they have not behind them a living spirit.” — Albert Einstein

“Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else, unless it is an enemy.” — Albert Einstein

“Before God we are all equally wise and equally foolish.” — Albert Einstein

“Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism — how passionately I hate them.” — Albert Einstein

“I always found I was in the best of company, alone.” — Albert Einstein

“The world as we see it is only the world as we see it. Others may see it differently.” — Albert Einstein

“The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.” — Albert Einstein

“The crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is trained to worship acquisitive success as a preparation for his future career.” — Albert Einstein

“Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.” — Albert Einstein

To act intelligently in human affairs is only possible if an attempt is made to understand the thoughts, motives, and apprehension of one’s opponent so fully that one can see the world through their eyes.” — Albert Einstein

“Love is a better teacher than sense of duty.” — Albert Einstein

“Setting an example is not the main means of influencing another; it is the only way.” — Albert Einstein

“External conditions can, to a certain extent, reduce, but never cancel individual repsonsibility.” — Albert Einstein

“I have never felt I was wasting time. Science is a process of trial and error. The only sure way to avoid making mistakes is to have no ideas.” — Albert Einstein

“The great moral teachers of humanity were in a way artistic geniuses in the art of living.” — Albert Einstein

“In matters of trust and justice there can be no distinction between big problems and small, for the general principles which determine the conduct of men are indivisible. Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted in important affairs.” — Albert Einstein

“Earnestly I must exert myself in order to return as much as I have received.” — Albert Einstein

“Most teachers waste their time asking questions which are intended to discover what a pupil does not know, whereas the true are of questioning has for its purpose to discover what the pupil knows or is capable of knowing.” — Albert Einstein

“A man’s ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary.” — Albert Einstein
“Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.” — Albert Einstein

“Convictions can best be supported with experience and clear thinking.” — Albert Einstein

“The most superior of scientific goals is to embrace a maximum of experiment with a minimum of hypotheses.” — Albert Einstein

“When we are working at something, we come down from our high logical horse and sniff around with our nose to the ground. Then we obliterate our traces in order to become more God-like.” — Albert Einstein

“The only rational way of educating is to be an example. If one can not help it, a warning example.” — Albert Einstein

“Education is that which remains if one has forgotten everything ever learned in school.” — Albert Einstein

“Work is the only thing I do to escape the corruption of praise.” — Albert Einstein

“One can only continue to expect to be read if one omits everything that is unimportant.” — Albert Einstein

“It is easy to say something new, if all senses one will eschew. But hardly ever is found, that the new is also sound.” — Albert Einstein

“What good is a reputation not put to good use.” — Albert Einstein

“For me a simple message, to think and act with courage, independence and imagination.” — Albert Einstein

“Everyone likes me, yet nobody understands me.” — Albert Einstein

“Long live impudence. It was my guardian angel in this world.” — Albert Einstein

“My only refuge, as a serious young man, from the despair of my financial burden to my family, is that I did everything I could to never permit myself any amusements or diversions except those afforded by my studies.” — Albert Einstein

“Force attracts men of low morality.” — Albert Einstein

“I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves. This ethical basis I call the ideal of the pigsty.” — Albert Einstein

“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

“You think you have troubles with mathematics . . . I assure you mine are still bigger.” — Albert Einstein

“To punish me for my contempt of authority, Fate made me an authority myself.” — Albert Einstein

“The only justifiable purpose of political institutions is to assure the unhindered development of the individual.” — Albert Einstein

“The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.” — Albert Einstein

“While it is true that an inherently free and scrupulous person may be destroyed, such an individual can never be enslaved or used as a blind tool.” — Albert Einstein

“Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.” — Albert Einstein

“The aim (of education) must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals who, however, see in the service to the community their highest life achievement.” — Albert Einstein
“To obtain an assured favorable response from people, it is better to offer them something for their stomachs rather than their brains.” — Albert Einstein

“Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value.” — Albert Einstein