There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I am not an atheist. I do not know if I can define myself as a pantheist. The problem involved is too… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Everything that the human race has done and thought is concerned with the satisfaction of deeply felt needs and the assuagement of… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
What Artistic and Scientific Experience Have in Common - Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The solitude and peace of mind are serving me quite well, not the least of which is due to the excellent and… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I soon learned how to scent out that which was able to lead to fundamentals and to turn aside everything else, from… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I said before, the most beautiful and most profound religious emotion that we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. And… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
...the physicist cannot simply surrender to the philosopher the critical contemplation of the theoretical foundations; for, he himself knows best, and feels… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Study is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Even short words of encouragement is enough to enlighten one's darkened minds and make things a little bit easier to handle. You… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
A great thought begins by seeing something differently, with a shift of the mind's eye. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Considered logically this concept is not identical with the totality of sense impressions referred to; but it is an arbitrary creation of… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
If what is seen and experienced is portrayed in the language of logic, then it is science. If it is communicated through… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Certainly there are things worth believing. I believe in the brotherhood of man and the uniqueness of the individual. But if you… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
What can the schools do to defend democracy? Should they preach a specific political doctrine? I believe they should not. If they… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
[When asked "Dr. Einstein, why is it that when the mind of man has stretched so far as to discover the structure… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
What humanity owes to personalities like Buddha, Moses, and Jesus ranks for me higher than all the achievements of the enquiring and… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
In the view of such harmony in the cosmos which I, with my limited human mind, am able to recognize, there are… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Nature shows us only the tail of the lion. But there is no doubt in my mind that the lion belongs with… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Without the sense of fellowship with men of like mind, of preoccupation with the objective, the eternally unattainable in the field of… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
America is a democracy and has no Hitler, but I am afraid for her future; there are hard times ahead for the American people,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down in the mind before you reach eighteen. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The most fundamental question we can ever ask ourselves is whether or not the universe we live in is friendly or hostile. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, of the manifestations of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty - it… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
You imagine that I look back on my life's work with calm satisfaction. But from nearby it looks quite different. There is not a… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The right to search for the truth implies also a duty; one must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The world we have made is a result of the level of thinking we have done thus far. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Anyone who thinks science is trying to make human life easier or more pleasant is utterly mistaken. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image