Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Albert Einstein Quotes
PleasureConsequenceModerationSuffering The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.
QuestioningCuriosity The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
LawGovernmentRespectEnforcement Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.
MemoryPerceptionSubjectivityUnreliability Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events.
Problem SolvingInnovationChange We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
TimePerceptionExperience Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute.
ImmortalityEthicsHumanityAuthority I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.
ResearchUncertaintyDiscovery If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
KnowledgeMindEnlightenmentIntuition There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.
WarMurderAnti-War It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
SolitudeYouthMaturity Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.
ReligionSpiritualityParadox I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion.
ScienceSimplicityCommunication Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.
ReadingCreativityCritical ThinkingIntellectual Laziness Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
MysteryBeautyArtScience The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
HumanityTechnologyEthicsResponsibility Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.
PeacePacifismAnti-WarResistance I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.
ReputationMisperceptionMaterialismNational Identity Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
ConscienceIntegrityMoralityPrinciple Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.
IndividualityAuthenticityIndependent ThoughtPerspective Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.
PopularityIronyPerception Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?
FearDeathAcceptancePerspective The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
LearningLivingHopeCuriosity Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
LogicImaginationPossibilityCreativity Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
ArroganceHumilityTruthKnowledge Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
IntellectCharacterBalanceWisdom We should take care not to make the intellect our goal; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
ActionInitiativeDriveHuman Nature Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.