More Quotes by Albert Einstein
I think 99 times and find nothing. I stop thinking, swim in the silence, and the truth comes to me.
Persistence is the most powerful force on earth, it can move mountains.
Condemnation before investigation is the highest form of ignorance.
The more I study science, the more I believe in God.
The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.
Creativity is intelligence having fun.
A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it ... he who doesn't ... pays it.
Any government is evil if it carries within it the tendency to deteriorate into Tyranny. The danger of such deterioration is more acute in a country in which the government has authority not only over the armed forces but also over every channel of education and information.
The only sure way to avoid making mistakes is to have no new ideas.