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Quotes by Albert Einstein 81-120
81 You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
82 Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who read too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
83 It's not that I'm so smart; it's just that I stay with problems longer.
84 Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.
85 Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
86 God always takes the simplest way.
87 I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.
88 Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.
89 I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.
90 The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
91 An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.
92 Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
93 Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.
94 The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
95 We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
96 If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
97 Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.
98 As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
99 I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
100 The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
101 I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
102 There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.
103 If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
104 The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
105 Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
106 Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.
107 I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps
108 The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.
109 Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.
110 It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.
111 Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
112 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.
113 Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
114 The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
115 It is only to the individual that a soul is given.
116 My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
117 To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
118 Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.
119 Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.
120 It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.