The human mind has first to construct forms, independently, before we can find them in things. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Highly developed spirits often encounter resistance from mediocre minds. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Most mistakes in philosophy and logic occur because the human mind is apt to take the symbol for the reality. — 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
If you feed your mind as often as you feed your stomach, then you'll never have to worry about feeding your stomach… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Chess holds its master in its own bonds, shackling the mind and brain so that the inner freedom of the very strongest… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The series of integers is obviously an invention of the human mind, a self-created tool which simplifies the ordering of certain sensory… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
God has given me a mule-like stubbornness to stick with a difficult problem and the intuitive powers to conceptualize complex hypothetical situations… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
No idea is conceived in our mind independent of our five senses [i.e., no idea is divinely inspired]. — 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
There is no scientific antidote, only education. You've got to change the way people think. I am not interested in disarmament talks… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It strikes me as unfair, and even in bad taste, to select a few of them for boundless admiration, attributing superhuman powers… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Ever since childhood I have scorned the commonplace limits so often set upon human ambition. Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury - to… — 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
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
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I soon learned to scent out that which was able to lead to fundamentals and to turn aside from everything else, from… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Concern for man himself and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors, concern for the great unsolved… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
This subject brings me to that vilest offspring of the herd mind -- the odious militia. The man who enjoys marching in… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It followed from the special theory of relativity that mass and energy are both but different manifestations of the same thing -… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
e idea of a personal God is quite alien to me and seems even naive. However, I am also not a "Freethinker"… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves -- this critical basis I call the ideal of a… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I have never belonged wholeheartedly to country or State, to my circle of friends or even to my own family... Such isolation… — 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
I do not play games. There is not time for it. When I get through with work, I don't want anything that… — 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
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
Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses… — 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
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself… — 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
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
Bear in mind that the wonderful things you learn in your schools are the work of many generations. All this is put… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I see a pattern, but my imagination cannot picture the maker of that pattern. I see a clock, but I cannot envision… — 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
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
Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down in the mind before you reach eighteen. — Albert Einstein Copy Share
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
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
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
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
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom. — Albert Einstein Copy Share
The world we have made is a result of the level of thinking we have done thus far. — Albert Einstein Copy Share
Anyone who thinks science is trying to make human life easier or more pleasant is utterly mistaken. — Albert Einstein Copy Share
“Just because you don't believe in something doesn't mean it isn't true.” — Albert Einstein Copy Share
But there is another reason for the high repute of mathematics: it is mathematics that offers the exact natural sciences a certain measure of… — Albert Einstein Copy Share
Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet. — Albert Einstein Copy Share