Quotes by Albert Einstein

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

"Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools."

"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination."

"True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist."

"The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives."

"Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death."

"The only source of knowledge is experience."

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science."

"God always takes the simplest way."

"That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God."

"If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed."

"The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion."

"I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed."

"I never think of the future - it comes soon enough."

"God does not play dice."

"When the solution is simple, God is answering."

"I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details."

"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."

"A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?"

"To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science."

"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere."

"The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination."

"I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty."

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."

"We should take care not to make the intellect our goal; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality."

"The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge."

"Information is not knowledge."

"Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be."

"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?"

"You can't blame gravity for falling in love."

"Love is a better teacher than duty."