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Attributed quotes — Albert Einstein

1879–1955

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121 quotes

The hardest thing in the world to understand is income taxes.

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Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty; it stems rather from love and devotion towards men and towards objective things.

Attributed Albert Einstein: The Human Side (1979)

Falling in love is not at all the most stupid thing that people do — but gravitation cannot be held responsible for it.

Attributed Albert Einstein: The Human Side (1979)

The Wonder of nature does not become smaller because one cannot measure it by the standards of human moral and human aims.

Attributed Einstein and Religion (1999)

The world needs new moral impulses which, I'm afraid, won't come from the churches, heavily compromised as they have been throughout the centuries.

Attributed Einstein and the Poet (1983)

The God Spinoza revered is my God, too: I meet Him everyday in the harmonious laws which govern the universe.

Attributed Einstein and the Poet (1983)

I do not accept a religion of fear; My God will not hold me responsible for the actions that necessity imposes.

Attributed Einstein and the Poet (1983)

If I had foreseen Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I would have torn up my formula in 1905.

Attributed Einstein and the Poet (1983)

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects.

Attributed Ernst Straus in Einstein: A Centenary Volume by A.P. French (1980)

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

Attributed Albert Einstein: The Human Side (1979)

I believe in one thing—that only a life lived for others is a life worth living.

Attributed Einstein and the Poet (1983)

I believe the main task of the spirit is to free man from his ego.

Attributed Einstein and the Poet (1983)

Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down by the mind before you reach eighteen.

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This is the beginning of cosmic religion within him; fellowship and human service become his moral code. And without such moral foundations, we are hopelessly doomed.

Attributed Einstein and the Poet (1983)

If I would follow your advice and Jesus could perceive it, he, as a Jewish teacher, surely would not approve of such behavior.

Attributed Einstein's God (1997)

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.

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I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.

Attributed to Einstein by his colleague Léopold Infeld in his book Quest: An Autobiography (1949)

What these blessed men have given us we must guard and try to keep alive with all our strength if humanity is not to lose its dignity, the security of its existence, and its joy in living.

Attributed Albert Einstein: The Human Side (1979)

Who would have thought around 1900 that in fifty years time we would know so much more and understand so much less.

Attributed Albert Einstein: A guide for the perplexed (1979)

If I hadn't an absolute faith in the harmony of creation, I wouldn't have tried for thirty years to express it in a mathematical formula.

Attributed Einstein and the Poet (1983)

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