Albert Einstein Quotes About Youth

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  I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Lonely, Clever

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.7, Open Road Media

• I do not share the crusading spirit of the professional atheist whose fervor is mostly due to a painful act of liberation from the fetters of religious indoctrination received in youth. I prefer an attitude of humility corresponding to the weakness of our intellectual understanding of nature and of our own being.

  Albert Einstein

  God, Religious, Atheist

  Letter to Guy H. Raner Jr., September 28, 1949.

• In one's youth every person and every event appear to be unique. With age one becomes much more aware that similar events recur. Later on, one is less often delighted or surprised, but also less disappointed than in earlier years.

  Albert Einstein

  Memorable, Unique, Years

• Truly novel inventions emerge only in one's youth. Later one becomes ever more experienced, famous-and foolish.

  Albert Einstein

  Memorable, Youth, Foolish

• I have remained a simple fellow who asks nothing of the world; only my youth is gone - the enchanting youth that forever walks on air.

  Albert Einstein

  Memorable, Simple, Air

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.55, Princeton University Press

• The consequence was a positively fanatic [orgy of] freethinking coupled with the impression that youth is being deceived by the state through lies; it was a crushing impression

  Albert Einstein

  Crush, Atheist, Lying

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Relativity: The Special and the General Theory”, p.3, Princeton University Press

• It is quite clear to me that the religious paradise of youth, which [I] lost, was a first attempt to free myself from the chains of the 'merely personal,' from an existence which is dominated by wishes, hopes, and primitive feelings.

  Albert Einstein

  Religious, Thinking, Feelings

  Albert Einstein, Stephen W. Hawking (2007). “A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion: The Essential Scientific Works of Albert Einstein”, p.340, Running Press

• I do not at all believe in human freedom in the philosophical sense... Schopenhauer’s saying, ‘A man can do what he wants, but not will what he wants,’ has been a very real inspiration to me since my youth; it has been a continual consolation in the face of life’s hardships, my own and others’, and an unfailing wellspring of tolerance. This realization mercifully mitigates the easily paralyzing sense of responsibility and prevents us from taking ourselves and other people too seriously; it is conducive to a view of life which, in part, gives humour its due.

  Albert Einstein

  Real, Believe, Philosophical

• O, Youth: Do you know that yours is not the first generation to yearn for a life full of beauty and freedom?

  Albert Einstein

  Generations, Firsts, Youth

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.30, Princeton University Press

• Everyone sits in the prison of his own ideas; he must burst it open, and that in his youth, and so try to test his ideas on reality.

  Albert Einstein

  Reality, Ideas, Trying

  Albert Einstein, George Bernard Shaw (2012). “Einstein on Cosmic Religion and Other Opinions and Aphorisms”, p.104, Courier Corporation

• It is my fate to be considered an authority, since I spent my youth rebelling against it.

  Albert Einstein

  Fate, Youth, Authority

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