“If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies.... It would be a sad situation if the wrapper were better than the meat wrapped inside it.”
―
Albert Einstein
“If tomorrow were never to come, it would not be worth living today.”
―
Albert Einstein
“The only difference between genius and insanity is that genius has its limits.”
―
Albert Einstein
“If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?”
―
Albert Einstein
“A foolish faith in authority is the worst enemy of truth.”
―
Albert Einstein
“Numerous are the academic chairs, but rare are wise and noble teachers. Numerous and large are the lecture halls, but far from numerous the young people who genuinely thirst for truth and justice. Numerous are the wares that nature produces by the dozen, but her choice products are few.
We all know that, so why complain? Was it not always thus and will it not always thus remain? Certainly, and one must take what nature gives as one finds it. But there is also such a thing as a spirit of the times, an attitude of mind characteristic of a particular generation, which is passed on from individual to individual and gives its distinctive mark to a society. Each of us has to his little bit toward transforming this spirit of the times.”
―
Albert Einstein
“I am by heritage a Jew, by citizenship a Swiss, and by makeup a human being, and only a human being, without any special attachment to any state or national entity whatsoever.”
―
Albert Einstein
“Any society which does not insist upon respect for all life must necessarily decay.”
―
Albert Einstein
“No one does anything right in life, until they realize that they are making a mistake”
―
Albert Einstein
“If this conviction had not been a strongly emotional one and if those searching for knowledge had not been inspired by Spinoza's Amor Dei Intellectualis, they would hardly have been capable of that untiring devotion which alone enables man to attain his greatest achievements.”
―
Albert Einstein
“In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all, be a sheep.”
―
Albert Einstein
