Albert Einstein Quotes on Experience (13 Quotes)

The only source of knowledge is experience.

It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.

The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science. He who know it not and can no longer wonder, no longer feel amazement, is as good as dead, a snuffed-out can.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought independent of experience, is so admirably adapted to the objects of reality.

Buddhism has the characteristics of what would be expected in a cosmic religion for the future It transcends a personal God, avoids dogmas and theology it covers both the natural and the spiritual, and it is based on a religious sense aspiring from the experience of all things, natural and spiritual, as a meaningful unity.

The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. The religion which based on experience, which refuses dogmatic. If there's any religion that would cope the scientific needs it will be Buddhism....

He who finds though that lets us penetrate even a little deeper into the eternal mystery of nature has been granted great grace. He who, in addition, experiences the recognition, sympathy, and help of the best minds of his times, had been given almost more happiness than one man can bear

Each makes this cosmos and its construction the pivot of his emotional life, in order to find in this way peace and security which he can not find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience.

I assert that the cosmic religious experience is the strongest and the noblest driving force behind scientific research.

Man tries to make for himself in the fashion that suits him best a simplified and intelligible picture of the world he then tries to some extent to substitute this cosmos of his for the world of experience, and thus to overcome it. This is what the

The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mysterious. It is the power of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their most primitive forms -- this knowledge, this feeling, is at the center of true religiousness. In this sense, and in this sense only, I belong to the rank of devoutly religious men.

In my experience, the best creative work is never done when one is unhappy.