Albert Einstein Quotes About Intelligence
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I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.
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It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For that he does not really need a college. He can learn them from books. The value of an education in a liberal arts college is not learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think something that cannot be learned from textbooks.
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Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events.
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Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
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A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
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Information is not knowledge.
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During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.
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No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.
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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.
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Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.
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It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
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A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
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Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
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The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.
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We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
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It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.
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He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.
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If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
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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.
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I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.
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Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.
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The only source of knowledge is experience.
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To me the worst thing seems to be a school principally to work with methods of fear, force and artificial authority. Such treatment destroys the sound sentiments, the sincerity and the self-confidence of pupils and produces a subservient subject.
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The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science.
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The release of atomic power has changed everything except our way of thinking ... the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker. (1945)
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The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.
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Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
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The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
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Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
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Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
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Albert Einstein
- Born: March 14, 1879
- Died: April 18, 1955
- Occupation: Theoretical Physicist
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