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When I was young I found out that the big toe always ends up making a hole in a sock. So I stopped wearing socks.

When I was young I found out that the big toe always ends up making a hole in a sock. So I stopped wearing socks.

Albert Einstein
Toes, Holes, Ends
Quoted in A. P. French, Einstein: A Centenary Volume (1979)

Peace comes through understanding

Albert Einstein
Understanding

Matter is real to my senses, but they aren't trustworthy. If Galileo or Copernicus had accepted what they saw, they would never have discovered the movement of the earth and planets.

Albert Einstein
Real, Movement, Earth
William Hermanns, Albert Einstein (1983). “Einstein and the Poet: In Search of the Cosmic Man”, Branden Publishing Company

The illusion that we are separate from one another is an optical delusion of our consciousness.

Albert Einstein
Consciousness, Illusion, Delusion

I have remained a simple fellow who asks nothing of the world; only my youth is gone - the enchanting youth that forever walks on air.

Albert Einstein
Memorable, Simple, Air
Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.55, Princeton University Press

As the area of light expands, so does the perimeter of darkness.

Albert Einstein
Light, Darkness, Doe

The wonder of nature does not become smaller because one cannot measure it by the standards of human moral and human aims.

Albert Einstein
Nature, Doe, Moral
Robert N. Goldman, Albert Einstein (1997). “Einstein's God: Albert Einstein's Quest as a Scientist and as a Jew to Replace a Forsaken God”, Jason Aronson Incorporated

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.

Albert Einstein
Inspirational, Spiritual, Learning

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

Albert Einstein
Inspirational, Attitude, Character
Albert Einstein's speech made in honor of Thomas Mann, when Mann was given the Einstein Prize given by the Jewish Forum (January 1939), as quoted in Abraham Pais "Einstein Lived Here" (p. 214), 1994.

Do you remember how electrical currents and 'unseen waves' were laughed at? The knowledge about man is still in its infancy.

Albert Einstein
Knowledge, Science, Men

If there is no price to be paid, it is also not of value.

Albert Einstein
Paid, Ifs, Values
Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.229, Princeton University Press

I get the most joy in life out of music.

Albert Einstein
Joy, Daydreaming

The more success the quantum theory has, the sillier it looks

Albert Einstein
Memorable, Looks, Physics

Everybody acts not only under external compulsion but also in accordance with inner necessity.

Albert Einstein
Compulsion
Albert Einstein (2011). “The World As I See It”, p.13, Open Road Media

The most powerful force in the world is compound interest.

Albert Einstein
Powerful, World, Fallen Angels

Don't do anything that goes against your conscience, even if your country says so.

Albert Einstein
Country, Ifs, Conscience

I am not a positivist. Positivism states that what cannot be observed does not exist. This conception is scientifically indefensible, for it is impossible to make valid affirmations of what people 'can' or 'cannot' observe. One would have to say 'only what we observe exists,' which is obviously false.

Albert Einstein
People, Doe, Impossible
Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.395, Princeton University Press

There exists a passion for comprehension, just as there exists a passion for music. That passion is rather common in children, but gets lost in most people later on. Without this passion there would be neither mathematics nor natural science.

Albert Einstein
Children, Passion, People
Albert Einstein (1995). “Ideas and Opinions”, Three Rivers Press

The only real valuable thing is intuition.

Albert Einstein
Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

It is easy to say something new, if all senses one will eschew. But hardly ever is found, that the new is also sound.

Albert Einstein
Sound, Easy, Something New

The thinking that got us to where we are is not the thinking that will get us to where we want to be.

Albert Einstein
Inspirational, Meaningful, Thinking

Life is sacred, that is to say, it is the supreme value, to which all other values are subordinate.

Albert Einstein
Sacred, Life Is, Subordinates
Albert Einstein (2007). “The World As I See It”, p.91, Book Tree

When forced to summarize the general theory of relativity in one sentence: Time and space and gravitation have no separate existence from matter.

Albert Einstein
Science, Space, Matter

Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.

Albert Einstein
Love, Inspirational, Life

The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.

Albert Einstein
Love, Life, Leadership
Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.20, Open Road Media

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