“The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think.”
— Albert Einstein
“Everything that the human race has done and thought is concerned with the satisfaction of deeply felt needs and the assuagement of pain.”
— Albert Einstein
“A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.”
— Albert Einstein
“I look upon myself as a man. Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.”
— Albert Einstein
“Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.”
— Albert Einstein
“The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self.”
— Albert Einstein
“All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.”
— Albert Einstein
“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.”
— Albert Einstein
“If A is success in life, then A = x + y + z. Work is x, play is y and z is keeping your mouth shut.”
— Albert Einstein
“Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions that differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.”
— Albert Einstein
“A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.”
— Albert Einstein
“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.”
— Albert Einstein
“Heroism at command, this senseless violence, this accursed bombast of patriotism – how intensely I despise them! War is low and despicable, and I had rather be smitten to shreds than participate in such doings.”
— Albert Einstein
“Blind obedience to authority is the greatest enemy of truth.”
— Albert Einstein
“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
— Albert Einstein
“The majority of the stupid is invincible and guaranteed for all time. The terror of their tyranny, however, is alleviated by their lack of consistency.”
— Albert Einstein
“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”
— Albert Einstein