Quotes by Albert Einstein

"Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish."

"Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater."

"Every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving."

"Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. How on earth can you explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love? Put your hand on a stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with that special girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That's relativity."

"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."

"If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor."

"It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education."

"Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet."

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."

"Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking."

"Truth is what stands the test of experience."

"Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value."

"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality."

"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."

"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."

"The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax."

"If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut."

"You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat." Albert Einstein, when asked to describe radio