Albert Einstein Quotes

I'm rarely wrong.

Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it.

I've always liked getting away with just a little bit of what you're not supposed to. Like my first book, Billy's Booger, got me in trouble with the principal's office.

I represent all the enlightened people in this country, and that's a fine thing to be able to do. It infuriates my opponents when I say this, but it is true.

I don't know anyone in the public eye who has not made a mistake and said something in a manner that does not truly reflect their intentions.

Mistakes are made even by priests at the altar.

Yes, once—many, many years ago. I thought I had made a wrong decision. Of course, it turned out that I ha been right all along. But I was wrong to have thought I was wrong.

Whoever believes that Aristotle was a god, must also believe that he never erred. But if one believes that Aristotle was a man, then doubtless he was liable to error just as we are.

I don’t make many mistakes but when I make one, it’s a beaut.

Revolutionaries are not infallible.

Whenever you make a movie, when it's done, as a filmmaker, you never sit there and say, 'Boy, I really got that right.' It's, 'Where did I screw up?'

Logic is a system whereby one may go wrong with confidence.

When I was doing Professor Albert Einstein's bust he had many a jibe at the Nazi professors, one hundred of whom had condemned his theory of relativity in a book. 'Were I wrong,' he said, 'one professor would have been enough.

There were definitely Nazis who saw the error of their ways.

Mistakes occur when a man is over-worked or over-confident.

Error has never approached my spirit.

A book may be very amusing with numerous errors, or it may be very dull without a single absurdity.

We are often confident even when we are wrong, and an objective observer is more likely to detect our errors than we are.

Law is error, you see. It's an attempt to write down a lot of things everyone ought to know anyway.

A book cannot apologize for what people may think it should be. It has to be authoritative.

Writing a book makes you an expert in the field. At the very least, when you hand someone a book you wrote, it's more impressive than handing a business card.

I’m waiting for the day when Rush Limbaugh’s pharmacist writes a book.

It is a grave error for any leader to be oversensitive in the face of criticism

I seem to remember telling you both that I would have to expel you if you broke any more school rules,” said Dumbledore. Ron opened his mouth in horror. “Which goes to show that the best of us must sometimes eat our words,” Dumbledore went on, smiling.

Confession frees, but power reduces one to silence; truth does not belong to the order of power, but shares an origincal affinity with freedom: traditional themes in philosophy, which a political history of truth would have to overturn by showing that truth is not by nature free--nor error servile--but that its production is thoroughly imbued with relations of power. The confession is an example of this.