Albert Einstein Quotes

People in their natural state are basically good. But this natural innocence,however, is corrupted by the evils of society.

Albert Einstein

Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?

Albert Einstein

Plants are shaped by cultivation and men by education.We are born weak, we need strength; we are born totally unprovided, we need aid; we are born stupid, we need judgment. Everything we do not have at our birth and which we need when we are grown is given us by education.

Albert Einstein

The freedom of Mankind does not lie in the fact that can do what we want, but that we do not have to do that which we do not want.

Albert Einstein

Once you teach people to say what they do not understand, it is easy enough to get them to say anything you like.

Albert Einstein

There are always four sides to a story: your side, their side, the truth and what really happened.

Albert Einstein

The first person who, having enclosed a plot of land, took it into his head to say this is mine and found people simple enough to believe him was the true founder of civil society. What crimes, wars, murders, what miseries and horrors would the human race have been spared, had some one pulled up the stakes or filled in the ditch and cried out to his fellow men:Do not listen to this imposter. You are lost if you forget that the fruits of the earth belong to all and the earth to no one!

Albert Einstein

Freedom is the power to choose our own chains.

Albert Einstein

It is manifestly contrary to the law of nature, however defined, that a handful of people should gorge themselves with superfluities while the hungry majority goes in need of necessities.

Albert Einstein

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

Albert Einstein

Socrates dies with honor, surrounded by his disciples listening to the most tender words -the easiest death that one could wish to die. Jesus dies in pain, dishonor, mockery, the object of universal cursing - the most horrible death that one could fear. At the receipt of the cup of poison, Socrates blesses him who could not give it to him without tears; Jesus, while suffering the sharpest pains, prays for His most bitter enemies. If Socrates lived and died like a philosopher, Jesus lived and died like a god.

Albert Einstein

I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.

Albert Einstein

I love idleness. I love to busy myself about trifles, to begin a hundred things and not finish one of them, to come and go as my fancy bids me, to change my plan every moment, to follow a fly in all its circlings, to try and uproot a rock to see what is underneath, eagerly to begin a ten-years task to give it up after ten minutes: in short, to fritter away the whole day inconsequentially and incoherently, and to follow nothing but the whim of the moment.

Albert Einstein

Education is either from nature, from man or from things. The developing of our faculties and organs is the education of nature; that of man is the application we learn to make of this very developing; and that of things is the experience we acquire in regard to the different objects by which we are affected. All that we have not at our birth, and that we stand in need of at the years of maturity, is the gift of education.

Albert Einstein

I may be no better, but at least I am different.

Albert Einstein

The social pact, far from destroying natural equality, substitutes, on the contrary, a moral and lawful equality for whatever physical inequality that nature may have imposed on mankind; so that however unequal in strength and intelligence, men become equal by covenant and by right.

Albert Einstein

Conscience is the voice of the soul, the passions are the voice of the body. Is it astonishing that often these two languages contradict each other, and then to which must we listen? Too often reason deceives us; we have only too much acquired the right of refusing to listen to it; but conscience never deceives us; it is the true guide of man; it is to man what instinct is to the body; which follows it, obeys nature, and never is afraid of going astray.

Albert Einstein

I am not made like any of those I have seen. I venture to believe that I am not made like any of those who are in existence. If I am not better, at least I am different.

Albert Einstein

In all the ills that befall us, we are more concerned by the intention than the result. A tile that falls off a roof may injure us more seriously, but it will not wound us so deeply as a stone thrown deliberately by a malevolent hand. The blow may miss, but the intention always strikes home.

Albert Einstein

Those people who treat politics and morality separately will never understand either of them.

Albert Einstein