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
The human mind has first to construct forms, independently, before we can find them in things. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors… — 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
“One cannot alter a condition with the same mind set that created it in the first place.” — 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
If a cluttered desk reflects a cluttered mind, what then an empty desk? — 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 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
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
The mind that opens to a new idea never returns to its original size — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The mind can proceed only so far upon what it knows and can prove. There comes a point where the mind takes… — 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
If a cluttered desk is sign of a cluttered mind, what is an empty desk a sign of? — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The longing to behold this pre-established harmony [of phenomena and theoretical principles] is the source of the inexhaustible patience and perseverance with… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“Problems cannot be solved with the same mind set that created them.” — 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
The beauty of it is that we have to content ourselves with the recognition of the miracle, beyond which there is no… — 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
It is characteristic of the military mentality that non-human factors ... are held essential, while the human being, his desires and thoughts-in… — 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
Desire for approval and recognition is a healthy motive, but the desire to be acknowledged as better, stronger, or more intelligent than… — 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
“MY DEAR CHILDREN: I rejoice to see you before me today, happy youth of a sunny and fortunate land. Bear in mind… — 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
Gradually the conviction gained recognition that all knowledge about things is exclusively a working-over of the raw material furnished by the senses.… — 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
“Your question is the most difficult in the world. It is not a question I can answer simply with yes or no.… — 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
I hate crowds and making speeches. I hate facing cameras and having to answer to a crossfire of questions. Why popular fancy… — 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
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