Albert Einstein Quotes

I go with what I know and what I see, and I believe in reality.

I think it will be found that experience, the true source and foundation of all knowledge, invariably confirms its truth.

There is a tendency to seek an objective account of everything before admitting its reality.

A very great deal more truth can become known than can be proved.

Even facts become fictions without adequate ways of seeing "the facts". We do not need theories so much as the experience that is the source of the theory. We are not satisfied with faith, in the sense of an implausible hypothesis irrationally held: we demand to experience the "evidence".

Truth is what stands the test of experience.

Everyone has been a witness sometime - It doesn't change it if you don't believe.

What men have seen they know. . . .

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.

Nothing's ever real until it's real.

I think that reality exists and that it's knowable.

Facts are better than dreams.

Avoid the precepts of those thinkers whose reasoning is not confirmed by experience.

What is the truth? Is it what you experience? Is it what I experience? Or is there some objective truth in between?

In my long experience, one thing I know is that truth is elusive.

Things are only real after one has learned to agree on their realness. What took place this evening, for instance, cannot possibly be real to you, because no one could agree with you about it. 'Do you mean that you didn't see what happened?'. Of course I did. But I don't count. I am the one who's lying to you, remember?

You can tell a true war story by the questions you ask. Somebody tells a story, let's say, and afterward you ask, 'Is it true?' and if the answer matters, you've got your answer . . . Absolute occurrence is irrelevant. A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth.

Belief is nearly the whole of the universe whether based on truth or not.

No amount of belief makes something a fact.

We know nothing in reality; for truth lies in an abyss.

At issue is not only knowledge of the world but our survival as individuals and as a species. All the basic technologies ever invented by humans to feed and protect themselves depend on a relentless commitment to hard-nosed empiricism: you cannot assume that your arrowheads will pierce the hide of a bison or that your raft will float just because the omens are propitious and you have been given supernatural reassurance that they will. You have to be sure.

Can I reject everything my brain experienced? Is intellectual understanding any understanding at all?