Quotes from Albert Einstein

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social enviroment. Most people are incapable of forming such opinions. ( Essay to Leo Baeck , 1953)

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

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

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

The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Somebody who only reads newspapers and at best books of contemporary authors looks to me like an extremely near-sighted person who scorns eyeglasses. He is completely dependent on the prejudices and fashions of his times, since he never gets to see or hear anything else.

When the solution is simple, God is answering.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

We know from daily life that we exist for other people first of all, for whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.

Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect, as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.