“Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.”
―
Albert Einstein
“I think that only daring speculation can lead us further and not accumulation of facts.”
―
Albert Einstein
“There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.”
―
Albert Einstein
“This topic brings me to that worst outcrop of herd life, the military system, which I abhor... This plague-spot of civilization ought to be abolished with all possible speed. Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them!”
―
Albert Einstein
“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.”
―
Albert Einstein
“I believe in intuitions and inspirations...I sometimes FEEL that I am right. I do not KNOW that I am.”
―
Albert Einstein
“That is the way to learn the most; when you are doing something with such enjoyment that you don’t notice that the time passes. I am sometimes so wrapped up in my work that I forget about the noon meal.”
―
Albert Einstein
“The health of society thus depends quite as much on the independence of the individuals composing it as on their close political cohesion.”
―
Albert Einstein
“Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity, but don't rule out malice.”
―
Albert Einstein
“The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.”
―
Albert Einstein
“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”
―
Albert Einstein
“A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are they crazy?” –Albert Einstein”
―
Albert Einstein
“It is important to foster individuality, for only the individual can produce the new ideas.”
―
Albert Einstein