Albert Einstein Quotes on People (17 Quotes)


    Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

    If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

    In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.

    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.

    In the temple of science are many mansions, and various indeed are they that dwell therein and the motives that have led them hither. Many take to science out of a joyful sense of superior intellectual power science is their own special sport to which they look for vivid experience and the satisfaction of ambition many others are to be found in the temple who have offered the products of their brains on this altar for purely utilitarian purposes. Were an angel of the Lord to come and drive all the people belonging to these two categories out of the temple, the assemblage would be seriously depleted, but there would still be some men, of both present and past times, left inside.


    I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.

    People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.

    Here I am, just an actress with nothing to say and crowds of people turn up to see me. Yet here is Einstein and the only person who turns up for him is myself.

    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.

    The horizon of many people is a circle with zero radius which they call their point of view.

    What a person thinks on his own without being stimulated by the thoughts and experiences of the other people is even in the best case rather paltry and monotonous

    The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.

    In a healthy nation there is a kind of dramatic balance between the will of the people and the government, which prevents its degeneration into tyranny.

    A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

    Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.

    People like you and I, though mortal of course like everyone else, do not grow old no matter how long we live.... We never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we were born.

    Scientific research is based on the idea that everything that takes place is determined by laws of nature, and therefore this holds for the action of people. For this reason, a research scientist will hardly be inclined to believe that events could be influenced by a prayer, i. e. by a wish addressed to a Supernatural Being.


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