Quote

Don't be too hard on me. Everyone has to sacrifice at the altar of stupidity from time to time.

Albert Einstein

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Albert Einstein
Age: 76 †
Born: 1879
Born: March 14
Died: 1955
Died: April 18
Inventor
Mathematician
Non-Fiction Writer
Patent Examiner
Pedagogue
Philosopher
Philosopher Of Science
Physicist
Professor
Science Writer
Ulm alb-Donau
Einstein
A. Einstein
Stupidity
Sacrifice
Everyone
Hard
Time
Altar
Altars
Statistics

More quotes by Albert Einstein

Image
The more success the quantum theory has, the sillier it looks
Albert Einstein
Image
In a healthy nation there is a kind of dramatic balance between the will of the people and the government, which prevents its degeneration into tyranny.
Albert Einstein
Image
It is humankind's duty to respect all life, not only animals have feelings but even also trees and plants.
Albert Einstein
Image
If you can't explain what you are doing to a nine-year-old, then either you still don't understand it very well, or it's not all that worthwile in the first place.
Albert Einstein
Image
It would be my greatest sadness to see Zionists (Jews) do to Palestinian Arabs much of what Nazis did to Jews.
Albert Einstein
Image
I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.
Albert Einstein
Image
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
Albert Einstein
Image
I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.
Albert Einstein
Image
Whatever there is of God and goodness in the universe, it must work itself out and express itself through us. We cannot stand aside and let God do it.
Albert Einstein
Image
Consider the concepts referred to in the words 'where', 'when', 'why', 'being', to the elucidation of which innumerable volumes of philosophy have been devoted. We fare no better in our speculations than a fish which should strive to become clear as to what is water.
Albert Einstein
Image
Show me a satisfied man, and I'll show you a failure.
Albert Einstein
Image
It is true that the grasping of truth is not possible without empirical basis. However, the deeper we penetrate and the more extensive and embracing our theories become the less empirical knowledge is needed to determine those theories.
Albert Einstein
Image
If men as individuals surrender to the call of their elementary instincts, avoiding pain and seeking satisfaction only for their own selves, the result for them all taken together must be a state of insecurity, of fear, and of promiscuous misery.
Albert Einstein
Image
Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as this ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth. (said of Mahatma Gandhi)
Albert Einstein
Image
Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.
Albert Einstein
Image
The most precious things in life are not those you get for money.
Albert Einstein
Image
[Mystery] is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.
Albert Einstein
Image
One has a feeling that one has a kind of home in this timeless community of human beings that strive for truth. ... I have always believed that Jesus meant by the Kingdom of God the small group scattered all through time of intellectually and ethically valuable people.
Albert Einstein
Image
We cannot despair about mankind knowing that Mozart was a man.
Albert Einstein
Image
It is true that my parents were worried because I began to speak fairly late, so that they even consulted a doctor. I can't say how old I was - but surely not less than three.
Albert Einstein