I very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express it in words afterwards. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The normal objective of my thought affords no insight into the dark places of human will and feeling. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It is entirely possible that behind the perception of our senses, worlds are hidden of which we are unaware. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
A problem cannot be solved at the level of consciousness in which it occurs. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The illusion that we are separate from one another is an optical delusion of our consciousness. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
These thoughts did not come in any verbal formulation. I rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
But the creative principle resides in mathematics. In a certain sense, therefore, I hold true that pure thought can grasp reality, as… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The words of language, as they are written or spoken, do not seem to play any role in my mechanism of thought.… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
A person experiences life as something separated from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of consciousness. Our task must be… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe; a part limited in time and space. He experiences… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The essentials of being a person of my type lies precisely in what they think and how they think, not in what… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
All the fifty years of conscious brooding have brought me no closer to answer the question, "What are light quanta?" Of course… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought which is independent of experience, is so admirably… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The belief in an external world independent of the perceiving subject is the basis of all natural science. Since, however, sense perception… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
All our thoughts and concepts are called up by sense-experiences and have a meaning only in reference to these sense-experiences. On the… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
As soon as science has emerged from its initial stages, theoretical advances are no longer achieved merely by a process of arrangement.… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Although I tried to be universal in thought, I am European by instinct and inclination. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
God doesn't; shoot crap with the universe.Your innermost thoughts are beliefs that unfold as your universe. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I take it to be true that pure thought can grasp the real, as the ancients had dreamed. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
What physics looks for: The simplest possible system of thought which will bind together the observed facts. — 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
The really valuable method of thought to arrive at a logically coherent system is intuition. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it Intuition or what… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Without changing our pattern of thought, we will not be able to solve the problems we created with our current patterns of… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“The development of science and of the creative activities of the spirit requires a freedom that consists in the independence of thought… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The individual feels the futility of human desires and aims and the sublimity and marvelous order which reveal themselves both in nature… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Conscious man, to be sure, has at all times been keenly aware that life is an adventure, that life must, forever, be… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Brief is this existence, as a visit in a strange house. The path to be pursued is poorly lit by a flickering… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The analogy I like is this imagine being able to see the world but you are deaf, and then suddenly someone gives… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Knowledge exists in two forms - lifeless, stored in books, and alive, in the consciousness of men. The second form of existence… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Science is the attempt to make the chaotic diversity of our sense-experience correspond to a logically uniform system of thought. — 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
