Albert Einstein Quotes About Understanding

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  • Your fervent wishes can only find fulfillment if you succeed in attaining love and understanding of men, and animals, and plants, and stars, so that every joy becomes your joy and every pain your pain.

    Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.30, Princeton University Press
  • Relations between pure and applied mathematicians are based on trust and understanding. Namely, pure mathematicians do not trust applied mathematicians, and applied mathematicians do not understand pure mathematicians.

  • Science not only purifies the religious impulse of the dross of its anthropomorphism but also contributes to a religious spiritualization of our understanding of life.

    Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.25, Open Road Media
  • The most difficult part about understanding something is that we understand it all.

  • I prefer an attitude of humility corresponding to the weakness of our intellectual understanding of nature and of our own being.

    Letter to Guy H. Raner Jr., from article by Michael R. Gilmore in Skeptic magazine, Vol. 5, No. 2 (1997), September 28, 1949.
  • In the teaching of geography and history a sympathetic understanding (should) be fostered for the characteristics of the different peoples of the world, especially for those who we are in the habit of describing as "primitive.

    Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.103, Princeton University Press
  • Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

    Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.44, Princeton University Press
  • Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.

    Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.149, Princeton University Press
  • As for the search for truth, I know from my own painful searching, with its many blind alleys, how hard it is to take a reliable step, be it ever so small, towards the understanding of that which is truly significant.

    Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.18, Princeton University Press
  • The fact that man produces a concept "I" besides the totality of his mental and emotional experiences or perceptions does not prove that there must be any specific existence behind such a concept. We are succumbing to illusions produced by our self-created language, without reaching a better understanding of anything. Most of so-called philosophy is due to this kind of fallacy.

    Robert N. Goldman, Albert Einstein (1997). “Einstein's God: Albert Einstein's Quest as a Scientist and as a Jew to Replace a Forsaken God”, Jason Aronson Incorporated
  • If you cannot explain it simply, you do not understand it enough.

  • Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.

    Albert Einstein, Stephen W. Hawking (2007). “A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion: The Essential Scientific Works of Albert Einstein”, p.452, Running Press
  • True knowledge comes with deep understanding of a topic and its inner workings.

  • I didn't arrive at my understanding of the fundamental laws of the universe through my rational mind.

  • Creativity is one of those hypnotic words which are prone to cast a spell upon our understanding and dissolve our thinking into haze.

  • Some men spend a lifetime in an attempt to comprehend the complexities of women. Others pre-occupy themselves with somewhat simpler tasks, such as understanding the theory of relativity!

  • The supreme task of the physicist is to arrive at those universal elementary laws from which the cosmos can be built up by pure deduction. There is no logical path to these laws; only intuition, resting on sympathetic understanding of experience, can reach them.

    Albert Einstein (2011). “Essays in Science”, p.11, Open Road Media
  • If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

  • The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.

    Albert Einstein, Harry Woolf (1980). “Some strangeness in the proportion: a centennial symposium to celebrate the achievements of Albert Einstein”, Addison Wesley Publishing Company
  • What distinguishes the language of science from language as we ordinarily understand the word? ... What science strives for is an utmost acuteness and clarity of concepts as regards their mutual relation and their correspondence to sensory data.

    Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.188, Open Road Media
  • If God has created the world, his primary worry was certainly not to make its understanding easy for us

  • My scientific work is motivated by an irresistible longing to understand the secrets of nature and by no other feeling. My love for justice and striving to contribute towards the improvement of human conditions are quite independent from my scientific interests.

    Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.18, Princeton University Press
  • I could say analogously that tolerance is the affable appreciation of qualities, views, and actions of other individuals which are foreign to one`s own habits, beliefs, and tastes. Thus being tolerant does not mean being indifferent towards the actions and feelings of others. Understanding and empathy must also be present.

    Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.89, Princeton University Press
  • But science can only be created by those who are thoroughly imbued with the aspiration toward truth and understanding. This source of feeling, however, springs from the sphere of religion. To this there also belongs the faith in the possibility that the regulations valid for the world of existence are rational, that is, comprehensible to reason. I cannot conceive of a genuine scientist without that profound faith. The situation may be expressed by an image: science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

    "Science, Philosophy, and Religion" (1940).
  • The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.

  • 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.

  • Peace comes through understanding

  • Do you believe in miracles? Well, you should. In fact, life itself is a big miracle. There are so many things that are beyond our understanding. There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.

  • I have never belonged wholeheartedly to country or State, to my circle of friends or even to my own family... Such isolation is sometimes bitter, but I do not regret being cut off from the understanding and sympathy of other men. I lose something by it,to be sure, but I am compensated for it in being rendered independent of the customs, opinions and prejudices of others, and am not tempted to rest my peace of mind upon such shifting foundations.

    Albert Einstein (1933). “The fight against war”
  • Understanding of our fellow human beings...becomes fruitful only when it is sustained by sympathetic feelings in joy and sorrow.

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    Albert Einstein

    • Born: March 14, 1879
    • Died: April 18, 1955
    • Occupation: Theoretical Physicist