Charles Baumgartner > Charles's Quotes

“If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.”
― Albert Einstein

“A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?”
― Albert Einstein

“The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.”
― Albert Einstein

“He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.”
― Albert Einstein

“Student: Dr. Einstein, Aren't these the same questions as last year's [physics] final exam?

Dr. Einstein: Yes; But this year the answers are different.”
― Albert Einstein

“I believe in intuitions and inspirations...I sometimes FEEL that I am right. I do not KNOW that I am.”
― Albert Einstein

“the only escape from the miseries of life are music and cats...”
― Albert Einstein

“Life isn't worth living, unless it is lived for someone else.”
― Albert Einstein

“Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible.”
― Albert Einstein

“Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury - to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best for both the body and the mind.”
― Albert Einstein

“What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can comprehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility. This is a genuinely religious feeling that has nothing to do with mysticism.”
― Albert Einstein

“Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as hard duty. Never regard study as duty but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs.”
― Albert Einstein

“Creating a new theory is not like destroying an old barn and erecting a skyscraper in its place. It is rather like climbing a mountain, gaining new and wider views, discovering unexpected connections between our starting points and its rich environment. But the point from which we started out still exists and can be seen, although it appears smaller and forms a tiny part of our broad view gained by the mastery of the obstacles on our adventurous way up.”
― Albert Einstein

“It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception.”
― Albert Einstein

“I see my life in terms of music.”
― Albert Einstein

“The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the Prohibition law. For nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced”
― Albert Einstein

“Older men start wars, but younger men fight them. ”
― Albert Einstein

“At least once a day, allow yourself the freedom to think and dream for yourself.”
― Albert Einstein

“Never do anything against conscience, even if the state demands it.”
― Albert Einstein

“Always do what's right; this will gratify some and astonish the rest”
― Albert Einstein

“E=mc2”
― Albert Einstein, The Theory of Relativity and Other Essays

“I do not teach anyone I only provide the environment in which they can learn”
― Albert Einstein

“Three great forces rule the world: stupidity, fear and greed.”
― Albert Einstein

“For an idea that does not first seem insane, there is no hope.”
― Albert Einstein

“In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all, be a sheep.”
― Albert Einstein

“There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.”
― Albert Einstein

“I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism, have brought me to my ideas.”
― Albert Einstein

“We know from daily life that we exist for other people first of all, for whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.”
― Albert Einstein

“Concerning matter, we have been all wrong. What we have called matter is energy, whose vibration has been so lowered as to be perceptible to the senses. There is no matter.”
― Albert Einstein

“The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.”
― Albert Einstein