Quotes from Albert Einstein

The definition of insanity is doing the same experiment and expecting different results.

I was made acutely aware how far superior an education that stresses independent action and personal responsibility is to one that relies on drill, external authority and ambition.

Evil is the absence of God.

A man's value to the community depends primarily on how far his feelings, thoughts, and actions are directed towards promoting the good of his fellows.

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

primitive religions are based entirely on fear

Don't wait for miracles, your whole life is a miracle.

The most beautiful and profound emotion we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. It is at the root of all true science. That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power which is revealed in the incomprehensible Universe is my idea of God.

we should not assume that experts are the only ones who have a right to express themselves on questions affecting the organization of society.

No one can read the Gospels without feeling the actual presence of Jesus. His personality pulsates in every word. No myth is filled with such life... no man can deny the fact that Jesus existed, nor that his sayings are beautiful.

One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

When we change the way we look at things, the things we look at change.